I remember the day with marble-polished clarity. The day I sodomised my first Black Bear Burger Brixton. 2020. In the strangled-mangled shackles lockdown, at my mates on Efra road. A celestial chubby steaming parcel of joy arrived. Lip-smackingly, soul-spankingly, face-melting YUM. My fave Burgus in London, and Stew is an absolute G ON THE MENU: Packvertising Genius: How Black Bear Burger turned their Deliveroo packaging into a Storytelling Machine Surviving Crispy Chips Crisis: How BBB solved t...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 50 min
FULL EPISODE: Youtube 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 br...
Oct 30, 2024•9 min•Ep. 234
TOTAL HONOUR to sit down for a podcast part two with the legend Seth Godin. We go DEEP into the Strategy + Brand + Storytelling Secrets of the best challenger brands Tony’s Chocolonely vs. Cadbury’s Blank Street Coffee vs. Starbucks Nespresso vs. Kenco Farmers Markets . Supermarket Lettuce Teaser below, fully eppy Monday morning ON THE MENU: David Chang Momofuko + Brussel Sprouts with bacon Rule: Pick your customers, pick your future - “Some customers will cross the street for your brand promise...
Oct 28, 2024•56 min
Seth Godin's take on Status, Affiliations, and Freedom from Fear, How Heinz Ketchup Lives Rent Free Inside Your Childhood Memories, The Circle of Us vs. The Circle of Now, & Union Square Cafe and Danny Meyer's Restaurant Strategy. 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'...
Oct 24, 2024•6 min•Ep. 232
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 24, 2024•4 min•Ep. 231
a brand building master class like you've NEVER head before Botivo Drinks | B corp are one of my fave brands The level of DEPTH Imme Ermgassen and Sam Paget Steavenson have gone into to build BOTIVO is CRAZY You're in for an ABSOLUTE TREAT ON THE MENU: 1. How BOTIVO was Born out of a Unusual Request at Lavish Parties like Calvin Harris, Ellie Golding, Prince Harry & Megan 2. Always Go Against the Category: Be a pleasure brave brand in a sea of moderation 3. Make something your CONSUMERS ACTU...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 51 min
FULL EPISODE: Apple Spotify Youtube 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. ...
Oct 17, 2024•16 min•Ep. 229
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 17, 2024•11 min•Ep. 228
Art vs. Commerce: How Elspeth balances creative freedom with business realities. Photographer Elspeth Vincent's journey, highlighting her artistic development and the business lessons she learned. Early Inspirations: Elspeth’s family influences and initial artistic explorations. Role of Mentorship: How photographers like Hanina shaped Elspeth’s growth. Finding a Unique Style: What makes Elspeth's style distinct and how experimentation helped. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Strategies Elspeth used...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 56 min
FULL EPISODE: Youtube Apple Spotify 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. ...
Oct 10, 2024•9 min•Ep. 226
Absolutely LOVED this conversation. Jack is well-traveled, well-read and well-fed. Whipper-smart and great fun. Perfect ingredients for a perfect conversation partner. Our conversation oozed and grooved from Surfing to Sauces, Bad Bosses to Best MBA’s Jack’s taken the reigns from Rick and is captaining the Stein Ship into future waters. You’re in for a treat. ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from...
Oct 07, 2024•2 hr 2 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...
Oct 03, 2024•16 min•Ep. 224
Delighted to wax lyzz with mi amigos PJ and BM. MKJ Ignite are a sponsor of the poddy. They’re great friends. And, yes, they’re recruiters (ohhhh gawwddd, I just used the “R” word) (cuff me Mr. Officer) Chill-AAxxxx, they're TOTAL LEGENDS People don’t talk about onboarding enough. Imagine walking into a 5* hotel and your room is a complete tip. You’d be miffed. So many founders and brands are working at such a ferocious pace. They’re forgetting to do the brilliant basics. Forgetting to tidy the ...
Oct 02, 2024•46 min•Ep. 223
"There are no rules, so create your own rules” - Tyrell’s Crisps & Chase Distillery founder: 16 Controversial Lessons from a £40 Million Exit and a £75 Million Exit to DIAGEO “…there are laws, but there are NO RULES” Back for a part two, with the Food & Drink OG DON Will Chase builds and flips. A MasterClass in Life and Brand building. Loved it. It’s long. Very long. So take it in slowly. ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take y...
Sep 30, 2024•2 hr 59 min•Ep. 222
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 26, 2024•11 min•Ep. 221
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•1 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•1 hr 36 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 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...
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 1 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 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•1 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•1 hr 55 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•1 hr 52 min
