Staff lead refurbishment

1:40am Sunday 20th April 2008

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Staff at a West Yorkshire bar have taken over the reins as part of a team building exercise.

Suburban Style Bar in Horsforth is being refurbished with staff making all the decisions about the decor from the colour scheme to the furniture.

Andy Longman, managing director of Suburban Style Bar Co Ltd, has put operations manager Mark Yates in overall charge while he concentrates on building up ten pubs that the company recently bought.

Mark Yates said: "It's quite an unusual situation with a team of employees being given total empowerment to drive the brand forward however they see fit.

"Getting anyone motivated is sometimes difficult and to have ten people fired up to help with the renovations and take direct responsibility for their actions is amazing."