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Inn-Fresco – Enhancing Educational Environments An exciting range of school and nursery products designed to create safe covered areas for schoolchildren is being developed to help them engage more easily with their external surroundings. Inn-fresco’s flexible products enhance any school environment   With cuts on the horizon, educational establishments are looking to maximise their resources [...]

Setting yourself apart from the competition…… Three years on from the smoking ban, establishment owners that took the plunge and offered their customers better outdoor areas are continuing to enjoy the resulting increased revenue. Duncan Chapman, Inn-Fresco MD, isn’t surprised. ‘After the ban, many bar owners invested in parasols, terrace covers and other measures – [...]

New Smoking Ban Research CGA data manipulated by CR Consulting says ‘the smoking ban is demonstrably the most significant cause of pub closures’. The report predicts that numbers will continue to fall with another 1,700 to close in England before the 4th anniversary of the ban in July 2011. CR Consulting blames the decline on [...]

  The versatile Med range can provide shade or shelter in every season With Autumn underway and lower temperatures looming, licensees are looking for ways to boost their business over the next six months. As inn-fresco MD, Duncan Chapman highlights: ‘We always see a real uplift in enquiries through September and October as retailers prepare [...]

Inn Fresco launch the Med, a new ‘all season’ outdoor solution! Inn-Fresco, the Outdoor solution specialists for pub and bar owners, have launched the Med, a new retractable cover which is perfect for those needing an outdoor solution which provides all year round flexibility. It has a fixed frame structure which comes in timber or [...]

Inn Fresco Parasols and Awnings Design Tips Modern and aspirational outdoor furniture can make a real difference to an outdoor scheme. Inn-Fresco, who specialise designing and installing Outdoor developments for the ontrade sector, understand that accessorising the final design is critical to its success. Pub operators want to make their customers stay enjoyable and relaxing [...]

Government considers extending British Summer Time To help tourism in the UK the government is considering a number of proposals one of which is to put the clocks forward by two hours in the summer so that we would have lighter evenings but darker mornings. Rebecca Harris, the Conservative MP for Castle Point, Essex said, [...]

Inn-Fresco, the Outdoor solution specialists for the on trade market, have launched a new brochure to help pub operators understand the real benefits that entertaining their customer outdoors can have on their business. In these increasingly tough times pub operators know only too well that offering customers something a little bit different can make a [...]

Create a social area – Independent research carried out by Inn-Fresco confirmed that people felt that umbrellas and an outside seating area made a pub more inviting and more special and sociable experience to eat and drink. Arrange furniture so that customers can sit and chat either in groups or as couples Providing zoned areas [...]

Adding those extra finishing touches can make a good outdoor solution really special.   FINISHING TOUCHES Innovative use of mood lighting External heaters will prolong that evening of alfresco drinking and dining. Outdoor flat screen televisions and audio surround sound  can provide the very best in luxury entertainment. Hanging baskets and pot plants IN CONCLUSION [...]