The Hospitality Builders

business, entrepreneurship, management · EN

You can run a café for fifteen years, put every day of your life into it, and find at the end there's nothing to sell. You ran a business. You never built one.This show is about the other outcome.John Richardson built the biggest sandwich business in Ireland by twenty-eight and lost it by twenty-nine. He did it again, and did it properly: restaurants, bars, cafés, chip shops, retail. Fifteen years as an owner-operator, close to a thousand people employed, and he sold every one of them. Twenty-one years since, advising some of the biggest names in the industry.Freddie Szydlowski came up through operations at Joe & The Juice when it had four sites in the UK, on the floor long before he was anywhere near a laptop. He went on to run marketing for hospitality brands, then co-founded Embargo, and now works directly with 3500 venues helping them grow - with the entire set of data behind it - week in, week out.Some episodes we sit down with operators at different stages of growth. Some it'