Making bugs mainstream is a brilliantly bonkers idea. I love brilliantly bonkers people. This Poddy was bonkers and brilliant yummy wisdom left me bug-eyed n’ bonked out Leo is an EXCEPTIONALLY bright visionary Leo sees bugs on bougie small plate menus in Shoredtich, Cricket Con Carne demolished on hungover Boxing Days in Glasgow And, SpBug Bol with Garlic bread for your Tuesday Tea (certy: the best dinner on a Tuesday) YUMBUG is backed by the genius Ollie, the man behind BOTIVO And, James Watt ...
Sep 23, 2024•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 220
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...
Sep 19, 2024•12 min•Ep. 219
Me loves me’s a-bitta Kricket. A raucous rollercoaster of Mumbai-melting, Bombay-bouncing, spice-slapping flavour Bowls you over. Smacks tastebuds for 6. Often, with my brother, we roll up, hunker down, nestle in, zonk out at their Brixton site: unadulterated gluttony erupts. And, the name, Kricket - I think - maybe - is one the greatest brand names of all time. Cricket, the sport, played in England and India. Marries the two countries. Kricket, the restaurant, combining British Ingredients with...
Sep 16, 2024•2 hr 35 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 12, 2024•10 min•Ep. 217
When I started the poddy, I scribbled on scruff paper a list dream brands Top of list: Innocent Innocent are THE OG challenger brand. The Innocent Illuminate (or Alumni) all built WHOPPPA brands: Giles, Barney, Emma, Peter Oden, loads more All extol fruitful learnings from Fruit Towers Many see Innocent as a Brand & Marketing machine (they are) Adam revealed something much DEEPER Something surprising. Something you've not thought about. ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 18 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...
Sep 05, 2024•12 min•Ep. 215
In 1994, Steve Jobs said - “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller .” “The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come” Today's Episode with Will Storr will make YOU a better storyteller to your team. Your brand a better storyteller to your consumers The learnings in this are TOTALLY different from every episode I’ve ever recorded. Will isn’t a food and drink founder. But, Will’s lessons are CRUCIAL for food and drink founders. He’s o...
Sep 02, 2024•2 hr
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 ...
Aug 29, 2024•10 min•Ep. 213
Building a brand = Jump off the cliff and build the plane on the way down “there are no set rules to build a challenger brand” Will and Josh, from Willy’s Pies live and breath those adages Brash oblivion confidence - mixed with naive intelligence tempered with a big ol’ dose of cynical pragmatism good humour Willy’s Pies is the wonderful story of action = momentum. momentum = magic. magic = more momentum = more magic. Will, a chef at BRAT and St. John was furloughed, for long, he made taste-tant...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 212
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 ...
Aug 22, 2024•5 min•Ep. 211
Just because a product or brand works in the USA doesn’t mean it’ll work in the UK.>USA Ideas that Bombed in the UK: Hard seltzer Hard kombucha Protein water (Fiesty will change this) Nootropics - taking ages to land on our wet little islands> The UK and USA are WILDLY similar and WILDLY different. So much cultural nuance. Think of The US Office (pile of sh*t) vs The UK Office (…long live the BrentMiester General). Lancashire isn’t Los Angeles. York isn’t New York. Liquid Death is a glorio...
Aug 19, 2024•2 hr 34 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 ...
Aug 15, 2024•4 min•Ep. 209
Craving more? Check out Dan's Newsletter Defining Identity by Business vs. Life Prisms, Staying in Business for 10 Years I was an scatty anxious swamp of hangover when I walked through the doors. Thankfully. soon changed. High White Ceilings. Dark Mahogany bar. The Camberwell Arms is raw and capacious as tables capriciously flux with ravenous rabbles scoffing their faces with delectable dishes. Here, the staff call you Darling and Honey. They’re Darling Honey’s. Sticky Toffee Pudding Charm. Warm...
Aug 12, 2024•2 hr 54 min
“Get on the couch” “Spill the beans… let it all out…tell me about your supply chain problems" *weep *weep “Look, I JUST want to go to SOHO House and drink Negronis and talk about marketing and On Brand and branding, creative ideas” “I know…I know. “…Go on have a tissue, look, I know, it’s tough being knee deep in excel” Dee-lighted to announce a Supply Chain Therapy Sesh with our wonderful sponsor Unleashed. Most founders hate supply chain. Giles Brook says “If you can’t hit 45% True Gross Margi...
Aug 08, 2024•51 min•Ep. 207
Craving more? Check out Dan's Newsletter 6.23am. My eyes stung when I got a call saying there’s a wild Aussie in London for 4 days. You know what happened next They said: You two simply have to record a podcast WhatsApp tennis ensued. Aaron Trotman is a DONNY. Founder of Australian Alch Free Wine brand NON Launched in Melbourne, Sydney, Seoul, San Fransisco, New York, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Tokyo And, now, finally London Our conversation was WILD. Felt like we were plugged into some Metamorfosi...
Aug 05, 2024•2 hr 52 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 ...
Aug 01, 2024•8 min•Ep. 205
I remember sampling at Bayley & Sage. On the shelf were two cans. Black. White. A shrilly lady, probably called Wendy (definitely eats Brie) tuttered: “what ON EARTH is that… Canned water??!! that’s IS never going to work” Buyers thought the same. So did friends. So did investors. No one though it would work. I kinda did, too Josh White was maniacally obsessed, even possessed, with making canned water work and reducing plastic. They’ve been the proverbial punching bag for so many challenger ...
Jul 29, 2024•2 hr 15 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 ...
Jul 25, 2024•18 min•Ep. 203
In Colombia. In Feb. On a sun-splashed beach. Ice cold beer in hand. I found a BANGING podcast by DJ and producer called @djwillclarke Devoured it. Will’s interviewed some absolutely WHOPPA guests and DJs @carlcoxofficial @moby @patricktopping @joshwink1 @waffdj @scubaofficial @dubfire @dannyhowarddj Will owns record label @allwehaveisnowofficial + released on Trick, Drumcode, Filth on Acid, Polydor Hit 100M streams globally and appeared at the worlds largest festivals. Will’s also gotta food pa...
Jul 22, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 202
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 ...
Jul 18, 2024•3 min•Ep. 201
Margot and Fergus Henderson, are, in my opinion, THE most important couple i Food and Drink. Together, they changed the British gastronomic landscape from meek, tepid swamp of meh to global powerhouse it is today. Fergus created the institution St. John and Nose-To-Tail Cooking, inspiring so many chefs. Margot forged her own path with Rochelle Canteen, inspiring female chefs to enter the kitchen or as Margot says a world of “Blokedom”. Rochelle Canteen is a little oasis, springing and blossoming...
Jul 15, 2024•2 hr 51 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 ...
Jul 11, 2024•5 min•Ep. 199
Part Deux is here to demolish down your ear lobes Since the glorious success of Seedip and single handy created Alcohol Free Movement. Ben’s back doing what he does best - BUILDING F*CKING MAZING STUFF 🟢 Founder of the EPIC podcast Hidden 20% - interviewed Kit Harrington, Lottie Moss, 🟢 Founder of seasn - launched in Michelin star restaurants, Hand and Flowers, 🟢 Founder of Pollen Projects 🟢 Making waves with seasn . The texture of Ben’s mind is INSANELY unique - inspires me to - question ev...
Jul 10, 2024•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 198
seasns changing, seasn launching november last year. hot summer melting into cold winter a swanky restuarant called Nessa just off SoHo at the launch part for Ben Branson’s new brand seasn sat on plush velvet pillows, deep-racing greens and hurling-purples, drinking champers Ben said: “Why don’t I interview you, mate?” I volleyed “Not sureeee about that mate, will people even wanna listen to that? ” Two weeks later. It happened A 5.5 hour podcast - the longest I’ve ever reorded. INSANE + INTENSE...
Jul 08, 2024•2 hr 42 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 ...
Jul 04, 2024•7 min•Ep. 196
Aperol Spritz are LITERALLY pissing money up the wall. LOL. Which pillock put prosecco in the bevraaa-geenie? Yellow is the new Orange. There's a new sheriff in Spritz-town. Aperol: Bon voyage, ta ta, f*ck off Allora: take a pew, mate. Lunch break is an hour. Ma ma Miaaaa Tastebud teleportation to Halcyon hacienda. Delisimo, bro. Each sip is whip lashes of mellow-yellow, sun-snogged Italian Summers. Orange, Green and Blue Pastel-Palaver… warmth tickling the nape of your neck… food is just right....
Jul 01, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 195
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 ...
Jun 27, 2024•8 min•Ep. 194
Cuff me. It gave me the Raging Horn.The first time I tried Vincenzo’s Raging Hog. A drive around the M25 to Bushy, Watford in search of the Pizza Panacea The hot steaming Frisbee of Fab landed on my table A fresh lattice of red and white cheese, tomato. Tomato and cheese. Jheezeeee. Yes Please. A burnished, boisterous-not-backin-tha-f*ck-down crust with little black billowing bubbles of joy. Pepperoni. Little terracotta spaceships of poppin’ salty fatty - Deeeeee...
Jun 24, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 193
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 ...
Jun 20, 2024•18 min•Ep. 192
Ironically, I remember the first time I got smacked in the face Ironically, it was in a crumbly old boxing pub called The Ring. The Ring is opposite Southwark Station. One of life’s lovely oxymorons; a Thai restaurant shoved up the jaxxie of boozer. It was a hot afternoon, the first time I got smacked in the face Too hot. Sticky hot. Too sticky hot. I felt like a f*cking sticky pork rib in Uniqlo getup as we climbed the stairs We climbed and climbed and climbed the marvellous aromatic waft of Gr...
Jun 17, 2024•2 hr 12 min
