{"id":4616,"date":"2016-02-25T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolverhamptonlabour.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:51:49","slug":"family-business-slaters-ales-opens-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/news\/family-business-slaters-ales-opens-its-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Family business Slater\u2019s Ales opens its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Slaters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4617 imgborder\" title=\"Slater's\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Slaters-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Slaters-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Slaters-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Slaters-1024x809.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Slater&#8217;s, an award-winning brewery, has developed its first premises outside of Staffordshire by transforming three floors of a Grade II-listed building previously occupied by Costa Coffee into a craft-ale bar.<\/p>\n<p>The original features of the building have been restored while there is also an industrial feel throughout.<\/p>\n<p>There is a downstairs bar and an upstairs bar for functions, which will also be open at weekends, while food will be served between 12pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>City of Wolverhampton Council has helped recruit 18 staff for Slater\u2019s Craft Beer Bar, with more than 90 per cent of the workforce from the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Councillor John Reynolds, Cabinet Member for City Economy, said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were delighted when Slater\u2019s chose to come to Wolverhampton. They have worked extremely hard to bring the building in Queen Square back to life and I am sure it will prove to be a popular venue at the heart of the city, complementing our regeneration plans.\u00a0 It is also great that the council has been able to help Slater\u2019s source the majority of its workforce from Wolverhampton.\u00a0 We very much value the presence of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) like this and the creative people behind them. These are the businesses that help give Wolverhampton its own identity and character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slater\u2019s supply pubs and clubs throughout the country with hand-brewed real ale &#8211; and celebrated its 20th year in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Fay Slater, owner, added: \u201cWe are excited to be opening our first bar in Wolverhampton. We look forward to welcoming old and new friends to the bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image caption: Cllr John Reynolds (left) and City of Wolverhampton Council Leader Cllr Roger Lawrence (right) toast the opening of new Wolverhampton business Slater\u2019s Craft Beer Bar with owner Fay Slater.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slater&#8217;s, an award-winning brewery, has developed its first premises outside of Staffordshire by transforming three floors of a Grade II-listed building previously occupied by Costa Coffee into a craft-ale bar. The original features of the building have been restored while there is also an industrial feel throughout. There is a downstairs bar and an upstairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}