Monday, May 26, 2008

Bureaucracy in the Licensed Trade

The finance director of Arkell's Brewery, Ray Fisher, is retiring from the company and has cited the tremendous increase in "red tape" as the major reason for his doing so now.

He said "It's absolutely ridiculous, many of these rules and regulations take so long to comply with and in the big scheme of things they mean nothing at all.

It is difficult for all business, whether they are large or small, it's so time consuming and does nothing to contribute to the success of the business."

What are your thoughts; let me know what you think are the most useless or annoying bureaucratic rules, regulations or legislation that you as a licensee is forced to work under.

Joe O'Riordan