Vijay Bohra, who owns the Mid City motel business and Overlander restaurant in Lords Place, has just completed purchasing the hotel.

Mr Bohra said the pub would gain a stronger family focus for customers.

"It will be more secure, more safe, more upmarket, a good family type of experience," he said.

Mr Bohra said the previous Asian cuisine restaurant had closed and it would be replaced with a restaurant focussing on "Australian food, modern pub food".

He said they had offered jobs to existing staff and were looking to hire other people to work in the restaurant, bar and at the premises.

"We know the staff, we are local," he said.

Mr Bohra said they would retain the hotel's name.

He said the hotel would undergo cosmetic changes with the renovations to include improving the upstairs accommodation rooms.

"We need to tidy it up, make it look a bit better than it is now," he said.

"It might take a couple of months before we reopen it."

He said they were still working on plans for the hotel including whether to continue its late-night weekend trading.

Mr Bohra said the pub had cleaned up its act in the past year or so, which he said was acknowledged by Orange police.

However he said the pub would no longer have any poker machines as they were transferred before the sale.

A spokesman for Liquor & Gaming NSW said Hotel Orange’s six gaming machine entitlements were transferred to the Metropolitan Hotel in Byng Street in January.

"Under NSW Government gaming laws, Hotel Orange is prevented from acquiring any new gaming machines for at least two years," he said.