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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Jun 05, 2025•8 min
Jun 02, 2025•56 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
May 29, 2025•56 min
Today’s poddy is sponsored by Square. Square is the all-in-one restaurant tech platform designed to streamline operations and give hospitality business owners the time back to focus on growth. Square is Big In Restaurants - which is the name of its latest UK marketing campaign - offering everything you need for day-to-day service, including Square’s payments , point of sale and reporting capabilities . Whether you’re a single-location FSR, a multilocation QSR, a bar or a multi-concept restaurant...
May 26, 2025•2 hr 20 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
May 22, 2025•4 min
Julian said every mistake he ever made boiled down to two things... When you lose sight of these two core relationships... Product <> Customer. Simplicity <> Complexity. Get these right. LITERALLY everything else falls into place. ON THE MENU: How to Scale from 7 to 17 to 70 Sites… “70% of issues you’ll face is losing focus product and customer” Founder Mode = Just make the product better. Never stop making your product better. Complexity is Organisational Cancer. Constantly find sim...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 43 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
May 15, 2025•4 min
Will Murray and Jack Croft are like NO ONE ELSE. Yes, incredible chefs - serving 10/10 BANGING food, But, also GENIUS marketeers, They RIPPED UP the rule book, Zigged when everyone Zagged. Built Fallow, Fowl, Roe to enormously successful restaurants, The World has changed. The way to build a successful restaurant has changed, too. Our conversation shows you how. ON THE MENU: Why Canary Wharf is the Craziest place to open a Restaurant: “lean into site surprises + “adapt to your customers + enviro...
May 12, 2025•2 hr 5 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
May 08, 2025•4 min
Founders, please don’t swap your PURPOSE for PROZAC. “when you exit…you’re drowning in the 3 D’s”. “Divorced, Depressed, Dyslexic” - Guy Singh-Watson. Guy breaks ALL the brand building rules Riverford Organic. Famously, told the supermarkets to F*CK OFF. Unapologetically, gave away over 26% of his exit dough BACK to the team. LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this poddy!! ON THE MENU: Nature & Brand Building Lessons: Humility + Strength of Diversity + Collectivism Why Richard Dawkins “Selfish-Gene” is WRO...
May 05, 2025•2 hr 3 min
May 01, 2025•9 min
Loved this one with Aussie Donnie Troy from Coqfighter. The early stage of the brand building journey is fun. you’re so naive, everything is new everything is fresh It’s better than your “…old boring corporate job” But, at some point, it becomes hard. Unimaginably hard. Doubt soars in. Confidence wanes The joy fades a little. Paul Graham calls it The Trough of Sorrow This episode will help you through Your Trough of Sorrow With a healthy seasoning of marketing, fried chicken and Lynard Skynard “...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 43 min
============================================ 🌟Espresso's are powered by our 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...
Apr 24, 2025•6 min
How Do We Fix Poor Mental Health in Hospitality for Women and the LGTBQ+ community? Zan Kaufman of Bleecker Burger has some thoughts. Intense. Hilarious. Raw. Soul-irking. Thought-twisting conversation with Zahn Bleecker Burger. 🎟️🙏🎟️WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfk9jGlMWX-nZ-WJnIAOHyVzxx0dd_XmeqWH4hrJNIq0yOHJw/viewform ON THE MENU: Accept your why and purpose will FLUCTUATE as you build your brand Y...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 43 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Apr 17, 2025•11 min
The biggest HURDLE every challenger brand faces? The moment a founder hires a Senior executive. Founder <> Operator tension is always bull-ragingly bombastic Operators joining challenger brands is like a well-polished CowBoy mounting a Raged Spanish Bull Operators must control founders rage, steer vision, channel energy, calm zeal a Supple Art, Elusive Science so many get wrong Honour to sit down for an Operator Masterclass with Graham xxx from Ole & Steen HUGE!!! thanks to legends at ...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 35 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Apr 10, 2025•8 min•Ep. 256
TOTAL honour to sit down for a gallivanting chinwag with this absolute G Ashley Palmer-Watts. Ash is a creative genius. Head Chef at The Fat Duck leading it 3 Michelin stars. Head Chef at DINNER by Heston. Genius behind The Devonshire with mcc. Creativity is water, you swim around, up and over, through obstacles. No matter what industry you work in this poddy will 10x your creativity. 🙏WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉 ON THE MENU: The Fat Duck 3...
Apr 07, 2025•2 hr 19 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Apr 03, 2025•7 min
The CRAZIEST Rory Sutherland Conversation EVER + 20 New Marketing Rules You’ve Never Heard. Buckle up, strap up for an ADHD Orgy with the G.O.A.T. 🙏WIN free tickets to the next supper club, fill out this form (takes 45 seconds) 👉 ON THE MENU: David Oglivy’s American Express Double Your Money Back Guarantee Rule = Get rid of arseholes + show Skin in the game Why are Jack Daniels Tube Posters SO LONG? Brand Depth vs Brand Awareness: Turn a 3 second poster into a 60 second poster How to Apply Dan...
Mar 31, 2025•2 hr 34 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Mar 27, 2025•8 min
DEE-lighted to welcome back the OG Giles Brooks on to the poddy. Recorded at our supper club at The Drapers Arms a coupla weeks ago. So many brands get stuck in the £2 - £5 million pond The trough of sorrow The dip The grind Giles, as always, gives super straightforward answers to complicated problems HUGEEEE WHOPPIN thanks to the Data Donnies North Star for making this happen ON THE MENU: Why brands get stuck in the £2 - 5 mill pond and don’t become house hold brand How big is your brand WHY re...
Mar 24, 2025•59 min
Espresso's are powered by our 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 biggest brands in FMCG love love Unleashed....
Mar 20, 2025•9 min•Ep. 255
This week we have a throwback to an incredible convo with the co-founder of TRIP, Olivia Ferdi. Maybe I am wrong. For yonks I’ve been waxing ad nause about Narrow and Deep. Focus. Do less, better. Be a Meaningful specific. It’s what every wonderful guest on the poddy teaches me. TRIP ripped up the rule book. Definition of outlier. TRIP is for everyone and anyone, anywhere, anytime and everywhere. TRIP is a coffee replacement. Booze replacement. Cocktail mixer. Meal Deal enhancer. Grab & Go. ...
Mar 17, 2025•2 hr 4 min
Full episode on youtube here - https://youtu.be/WgI81HTrOv0 Espresso's are powered by our 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 c...
Mar 13, 2025•10 min
In 2001, the London Food World was pallid, tepid, insipid. Clotted cream Miserable Meh Thankfully, two legends CHANGED EVERYTHING. Sam Hart & Eddie Hart Swam upstream, zigged against zagging zeitgeist. Opened an array of spell-binding restaurants 2003 - Fino with genius Nieves 2007 - Barrafina 2012 - Quo Vadis with living-legend and food encyclopaedia, Jeremy Lee 2015- El Pastor And, more recently, Parillian, Bar Daskall Ghosts in Quo Vadis, MAD house parties in Manchester, wild techno night...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 45 min
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 biggest brands in FMCG love love...
Mar 06, 2025•18 min
You’ll NEVER learn these lessons in a marketing book Tod is a GENIUS marketeer. Built an enormous 7 figure business all from his iPhone 11. Toby Inskip built an ATTENTION-GRABBING MACHINE. Drool, scroll Drool, scroll Droll and scroll and drool some more Tod injects a giddy wanderlust to the blossoming London Food World Enter Flavour Funky Town Tastebud Tinsel Town Please Sir, Can I have Some More, More, More Huge thanks to Uber Eats’, Sam Nicaudie for providing the Mountains of Munch from lip-sm...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 4 min
============================================ 🌟Espresso's are powered by our 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...
Feb 27, 2025•5 min
Super fun time with legend Nina Parker Our conversation was a Curiosity Carnival massaging my insatiable loves creativity, restaurants, stuffing-my -ace, writing, brand building If you love food, love brand building, you’ll love this Oh! If you’re watching on YouTube people are asking if I’ve started painting my nails like a Hackney HipsterDipster Nay, I dropped a f*ck off big kettle bell on my finger and it’s gone completely black 🤣 Fully Poddy tomozza morning ON THE MENU: 1. Nina’s Proustian ...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 45 min
