Every great pub dynasty starts with a single hotel. For the Laundys, now with a fortune of $1.75 billion and dozens of pubs, it was the Sackville Hotel in Sydney’s inner west eight decades ago.

For Glenn Piper, it was a pub known as the Hilton, or the Harbord Hotel, in the beachside Sydney suburb of Freshwater. That was in 2020, when the property consultant turned into a publican with the purchase of his local.