Sadness as students pull out of lease on Fox & Duck pub in Broomhill

Stoatwobbler · 28-05-2012, 11:25

This is a shame as the Fox & Duck is actually quite a nice pub.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sadnes...C-M5U.facebook

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Sheffield University Students’ Union is calling time after a quarter of a century on its lease of The Fox and Duck pub, in Broomhill.

The decision has been made due to fewer students living in the suburb, plus more people drinking at home due to cheaper supermarket booze.

Now the pub’s owner, Enterprise Inns, is preparing to advertise for a new tenant.

Residents and businesses in Broomhill called for the venue to remain a traditional pub.

belperite · 28-05-2012, 11:38

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Originally Posted by Stoatwobbler

This is a shame as the Fox & Duck is actually quite a nice pub.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sadnes...C-M5U.facebook

Indeed, Enterprise Inns strike again

neeeeeeeeeek · 28-05-2012, 11:46

They have been trying to negotiate with Enterprise for a while now but they are just not interested. Enterprise are more than happy to try and screw them over, and if not them, the next poor people they get in to run if for 6 months until they hike the prices up so much they leave.

Enterprise Inns are a disgrace, they should be taken over and the current owners forced to run a pub under the conditions they have been preceding over. See how they like it.

taxman · 28-05-2012, 12:24

Maybe Thornbridge could take it over.

Tess · 28-05-2012, 12:43

I guessed that this would be Enterprise. I didn't even have to read the flipping thread - I just knew. They don't seem to have a clue really.

taxman · 28-05-2012, 13:31

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Originally Posted by Tess

I guessed that this would be Enterprise. I didn't even have to read the flipping thread - I just knew. They don't seem to have a clue really.

They don't have a clue about running pubs but they know all about selling property.

NatureBoy · 28-05-2012, 13:53

'The decision has been made due to fewer students living in the suburb'

What a bad excuse! Broomhill and Crookes is absolutely chocker full of students!

neeeeeeeeeek · 28-05-2012, 15:57

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Originally Posted by NatureBoy

'The decision has been made due to fewer students living in the suburb'

What a bad excuse! Broomhill and Crookes is absolutely chocker full of students!

The Uni really should say that the decision has been made due to Enterprise Inns being a bunch of robbing gits who are intent on destroying the few remaining drinking establishments in the UK.

Stoatwobbler · 29-05-2012, 03:43

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Originally Posted by taxman

Maybe Thornbridge could take it over.

Well it wouldn't suprise me to see Thornbridge take over the lease. And I would be more relaxed about that then I was when they took over the Bath Hotel.

belperite · 29-05-2012, 08:01

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Originally Posted by taxman

Maybe Thornbridge could take it over.

I know you're probably trolling, but they'd better not. They'd also have serious competition with the York nearby, who actually sell ales at reasonable prices.

I can also see them alienating the locals who currently go in there.

Having said that, perhaps it is preferable to Enterprise's usual policy in this situation, which seems to be install a series of temporary managers/tenants who don't care, and run the pub into the ground?

Or perhaps the Sheaf/Blake guys could take it on?

Greengeek · 29-05-2012, 08:10

Thornbridge need to concentrate on taking over flagging pubs like The Highcliffe. I've never seen it so busy now it's the greystones. Same with Hallamshire House.

They want to get their teeth into the Shiny Sheff at Lodge Moor.

jamesogt · 29-05-2012, 08:18

The Uni has dragged a lot of people out of the area by creating places like 'The Edge', you should see what their bar and food income is!

If the Students Union can't run a pub there then good luck to places like the South Sea, Broomhill Tavern and the other leases.

taxman · 29-05-2012, 08:40

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Originally Posted by belperite

Or perhaps the Sheaf/Blake guys could take it on?

I doubt James would become a leasee of Enterprise, he'd want to purchase it outright in order to have control over all aspects of its running. He has had success doing that before though.

Enterprise shut The Blake and stuck a restrictive covenant on the lease preventing its reopening as a pub. James had to fight long and hard to get it overturned and prevent the Enterprise scum selling it off for much needed

flats.

GodStar · 29-05-2012, 10:43

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Originally Posted by Greengeek

Thornbridge need to concentrate on taking over flagging pubs like The Highcliffe. I've never seen it so busy now it's the greystones. Same with Hallamshire House.

They want to get their teeth into the Shiny Sheff at Lodge Moor.

That is one place where Thornbridge wont work. Most drinkers in there (and there arent many) are hardened John Smiths Smooth drinkers and moan at any sort of change. Very price sensitive too...

PeteM01 · 29-05-2012, 11:45

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Originally Posted by GodStar

That is one place where Thornbridge wont work. Most drinkers in there (and there arent many) are hardened John Smiths Smooth drinkers and moan at any sort of change. Very price sensitive too...

Probably quite similar to the Highcliffe (Greystones) then...

splodgeyAl · 29-05-2012, 12:18

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Originally Posted by taxman

They don't have a clue about running pubs but they know all about selling property.

They don't care about running pubs. Their business model is pretty much "there's one born every minute"

Fudbeer · 29-05-2012, 13:13

Enterprise business model does not work in my opinion, they typically sell overpriced beer in scruffy pubs they are £2.9 bn in debt and have sold over 1000 pubs over the past 2 years.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/m...aker-pubs.html

RichK · 29-05-2012, 13:43

This is terrible news the Fox and Duck has been a fantastic asset for Broomhill.

Very sad to hear the SU are leaving.

metalman · 29-05-2012, 14:02

There are less students in Broomhill though. A lot of them now live in the Opal residences down at Shalesmoor and Netherthorpe, not to mention West One and so on, and with the halls of residence closing down and moving to the new student village, there will definitely be less than there used to be. The same reason was given for the Broomhill branch of Blackwells closing down.

When you add in the permit parking scheme as well, it is looking rather as though Broomhill will become Sheffield's next bit of tumbleweed-strewn wasteland.

RichK · 29-05-2012, 14:26

It's an easy reason to give: but Blackwells was a poor bookshop in many respects - it was too small and only seemed to stock popular bestsellers. What's the point of a specialist academic bookstore that only stocks a tiny range of titles, all of which you can get for half the price on Amazon? Although they're being bullish, I'd be surprised if there will be any Blackwells open in 2 years time.

And even if we do lose the Fox and Duck, which will be terrible, the York has established itself as a thriving place to go. Not my type of pub, but proof that Broomhill still has plenty of life.