The Bed and Breakfast Academy Blog

If you run a food business in Wales, England and Northern Ireland, then you may be affected by the new allergen labelling requirements that become law, Natasha’s Law, tomorrow, Ist October 2021.

To quote the Food Standards Agency Website:

“From 1 October 2021, the requirements for...

Preparing a bed and breakfast buffet is always a lot easier in the summer when there’s a surplus of British summer berries. I always struggle a bit to decide what fruit to use when autumn and winter came around.

This dish is very popular on a bed and breakfast buffet table. The plums go...

I was recently contacted by Andrew French, Founder of  Yellow Tree Studio, a company that specializes in Web design, producing high quality images, videos, written content and SEO

Andrew offered to write this post for my blog to explain the advantages of having a website for your bed...

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Owning a B&B might mean you can work from home, be your own boss, have more time for...

For this week’s podcast I was very pleased to be joined by Clare Wright who runs the School House B&B in Chapel Lawn here in Shropshire, with her husband Dave.

You can listen to the podcast here --> B&B Academy Podcast #03

When Clare and Dave took my course in October...

In this week's podcast I discuss how I found inspiration for my own B&B, share a confession about staying at B&Bs and also let you in on something a bit personal about my weekend. You can listen here...

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Sometimes, when we're running a B&B,  we accept behaviour from a guest just because we think that’s what good customer service is. Most people probably start a business with the "customer is always right" ethos. But guest behaviour  may make us feel uncomfortable and...

A friend of mine, who ran a very nice 5 room B&B, was once called just after midnight by a guest requesting he bring champagne to their room. A few days later he was called at 2am by different guests requesting room service.

Running the B&B, nearly entirely on his own, meant my friend had...

I decided to give myself a morning off from the computer and head off to the Local to Ludlow Market to buy some croissants from our very own French baker, Matty. He bakes those wonderful buttery croissants that you only normally get to bite into on a holiday in France.

Ludlow was pretty magical...

Something a bit different this week.

I actually couldn’t decide whether to call this post dealing with difficult guests or staying happy as a B&B owner, as it’s a bit of a mix of both!

Having reopened their bed and breakfasts recently, after the latest UK lockdown ended, I'm...

I’ve recently been moving all of my recipes across from my blogs onto this one and I noticed that quite a lot of my recipes involve oats!

We are lucky here in Shropshire to have a very good oat supplier, Pimhill Oats. I really notice the difference if I use any other oats for my porridge....