Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/ BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consu...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 130
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Nov 23, 2023•11 min•Ep. 129
All Things Butter Spread like wild-fire over social media. My goal: explore All Things Behind-The Butter. Milk the proverbial cow Baste my brain, melt my mind with wisdom Churn through the conversational fields of curiosity Fill me-mind up Butter Cup (sounds geordie) WHEY-HEY BABYYY !! (God, I sound like a Geography teach-in-with-long-nose-hair-in-Fat-Face) This conversation BLEW MY MIND Behind the glitzy-ritzy, sparkly-sugar-coated veneers Toby Hoppy Thomas Straker are two absolute grafters wit...
Nov 20, 2023•2 hr 52 min•Ep. 128
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Nov 16, 2023•18 min•Ep. 127
Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ Big Fish - https://bigfish.co.uk/ BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consulting - https://www.hc-consulting.uk/ 2022, Planet Organic set to open 50 stores. April 2023, in Administration. What ACTUALLY happened? What went wrong at...
Nov 13, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 126
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Nov 09, 2023•11 min•Ep. 125
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ Big Fish - BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ H...
Nov 06, 2023•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 124
Listen to the full episode here: Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The...
Nov 02, 2023•15 min•Ep. 123
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consultin...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 122
Listen to the full episode here: Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The...
Oct 27, 2023•13 min•Ep. 121
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consultin...
Oct 23, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 120
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Oct 19, 2023•10 min•Ep. 119
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ HUNGRY’s absolutely bloody marvellous and wonderful sponsors Mackenzie Jones - https://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/ GS1 - https://www.gs1uk.org/ BOWIMI - https://www.bowimi.com/ HC Consultin...
Oct 16, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 118
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Oct 12, 2023•9 min•Ep. 117
Every top food and drink founder reads our weekly Newsletter, Friday Feast - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ 11pm. Outside: cold, black November evening. Inside: a warm, cosy flat in Twickenham. Saturday’s movie about to start. Hot curry on his lap. Suddenly. The phone rang ...
Oct 09, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 116
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Oct 05, 2023•7 min•Ep. 115
You’re being too smart. And, it’s killing your brand. Following logic. Leaning on experience as a crutch. When, ostensibly, it’s a shackle. Petrified of looking dumb. We pre-rationalise decision making. So many brands, including myself, after a honey-moon of magical momentum become sterile, pallid, bland. This moment is VERY dangerous for challenger brands. The Dip. Trough of Sorrow. Really bloody hard bit. Rory says here, we must ditch experience and logic. Instead, act with child-like wonderme...
Oct 02, 2023•2 hr 28 min
Listen to the full episode here Espresso's are powered by our brand new sponsor, Unleashed! 1. What on earth is Unleashed, I hear you asking? Unleashed is Inventory management software that talks to your financial and eComm software. We use it daily at Islands. It's BANGING!! 2. Why Unleashed will change your life as a foodie founder? Cut admin time in half. Save money. Lots of money. Get lucid clarity on margins. Be all over cash flow, after all cash is king. Manage stock and cash flow. 3. The ...
Sep 28, 2023•8 min•Ep. 113
Most strategy is UTTER BULL SHIT. Shat out by spurious and superfluous #strategists Peddling putridly perplexing, flabbergasting “frameworks” — make the brain go berserk. Matrix’s that make you feel like you’ve chomped the orange-what-you-on-about-mate?-pill “Grab yourself a Costa and a biccy …let’s all sit around synergise and prioritise and sodomise your brain with complexity” Complexity is EASY. Simplicity is HARD. So much strategy complexity. Alex M H Smith does the HARD job of making strate...
Sep 25, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 112
The most mind-blowing conversation I’ve EVER had on challenger leadership. Julian Metcalfe is contrarian, formidable. A lucid single-mindedness married with a howling grit. The unique ability to find simplicity in complexity - “complexity is easy, simplicity is hard” Pret a Manger and ITSU combined are worth over £3 billion. Pret a Manger one of the biggest food and drink brands of all time, opened sites in New York, Hong Kong and successfully sold in 2018. ITSU are at 74 sites solving the obesi...
Sep 18, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 111
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Sep 14, 2023•6 min•Ep. 110
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Friday Feast https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ There was someone else before Brewdog and Camden Town Bewery. Ferociously banging the craft beer drum when no one listened. Charlie McVeigh. Charlie pioneered of the craft beer movement. In 2006, founded The Draf...
Sep 11, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 109
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/23Q2M51LBXwGsxszG6iU6v APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hungry/id1537239469 this a repost with the wonderful Myles Hopper. I am in Lisbon for my 30th - back to it next week xx One of those INTENSE days. Emails eviscerating Zen, to-do lists trampling Calm. Instant Gratification masquerading as Instagram: scrolling your way to shameful oblivi...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 108
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Aug 31, 2023•3 min•Ep. 107
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ - Dodgy hires are cancerous, they gorge and eviscerate iron-clad cultures. - Dodgy hires are anchors slowing your challenger speed boat down. - Dodgy hires are a total headache and smouldering pain in the jaxxie. Every single guest on the podcast has ONE salient, recurring piece of wisdom. Hiring is EVERYTHING. Attracting, onboarding, keeping, nurturing, great talent is EVERYTHING. But, the...
Aug 28, 2023•45 min•Ep. 106
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Aug 24, 2023•5 min•Ep. 105
Subscribe to our newsletter https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Moments of Total Happiness often spawn from Moments of Totally Fuck This. Rob and Sam created premium cocktail brand, Buveur. Buveur unlocked a myriad of smashing-listings Harrods, Selfridges, Daylesford, The Hoxton Hotels and The Ri...
Aug 21, 2023•56 min•Ep. 104
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Aug 17, 2023•6 min•Ep. 103
Every top food and drink founder reads our Newsletter - why wouldn't you? https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/ Watch the full shabang on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HungryFMCG/videos Let’s link up on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/ Stalk me on Insta- https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/ Leaving New York and landing in La La land with dreams of becoming an actor. The odd extra job here and there. Nothing. Hollywood reared it’s egregious ugly head with toxic-stained eyes. ...
Aug 14, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 102
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Aug 10, 2023•4 min•Ep. 101
