The Future of British Pubs is In a Basket on a Slate... with various ramekins.

How low can a pubco go?

When it comes to presentation All Bar One (the ONE bit signifying one of the seventeen brands of pubs from Mitchells & Butlers that this specialist anodyne pub creator is responsible for in around 3.000 outlets all over the UK)  take the biscuit to a new level. Just in from one of my colleagues in the pub business is this photograph from an All Bar One table top:

With thanks to Nick Higney

M&B we salute you.

Their Brands (some of them are 'non branded brands) Go on: Click on one or all of them. Take a tour of Britain's authentic pub tradition. Apart from the German ones of course.

• Sizzling Pubs
• Vintage Inns
• Harvester
• Ember Inns
• Toby Carvery
• Crown Carveries
• Castle
• Nicholson's
• Premium Country Dining Group
• O'Neill's
• Alex
• All Bar One
• Village Pub & Kitchen
• Miller & Carter
• Browns
• Innkeeper's Lodge
• Oak Tree