HUNGRY.

Dan Pope

HUNGRY is THE podcast for Challenger FMCG & Hospitality Founders wanting to pour gasoline on growth. We chat with the industry BIG HITTERS. We ooze out the HIDDEN success secrets they’ve never told before and dive deep into their gut-wrenching failures, so you avoid them. We help you grow bigger, faster, stronger. Over the last 6 years, we’ve chatted to some insane guests on the poddy: Rory Sutherland, Seth Godin, Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Tom Kerridge, Sir John Hegarty, The founders of SOHO House, TRIP, The Devonshire, Tony’s Chocolonely, Vita Coco Look, I’ll be blunt, HUNGRY is NOT your normal podcast. HUNGRY is NOT scripted and sterile Q&A interviews. HUNGRY is for pretty much no one. HUNRGY is a deliciously fun, wild and crazy, ADHD rollercoaster of free flowing conversations. got what it takes? Buckle up. Strap in. get ready to… FEED YOUR HUNGER

  1. 18 小時前

    Manchester's Busiest Restaurant: "We Killed Everything That Made Us Cool” (and got busier) - Cafe Continental

    Café Continental founders Ryan Robinson and Lee Ferguson join Dan Pope to break down what it really takes to build a restaurant people actually want to return to. From balancing creativity with brutal financial realities to going viral, working with food influencers and knowing when an idea simply isn’t working, Ryan and Lee share the principles behind one of Greater Manchester’s most exciting independent restaurants. They get into why Michelin stars don’t guarantee a profitable business, the nightmare of serving brunch, why overly complicated menus are a red flag, the backlash against small plates, and how Ryan’s years as a DJ shaped the atmosphere and energy of Café Continental. Plus: Manchester’s creative culture, the influence of San Sebastián, restaurant awards, social media, staying relevant without chasing trends, and why sometimes the smartest thing you can do is admit you got it wrong. A proper conversation about food, hospitality, business, creativity — and having a good time while doing it.===========ON THE MENU===========00:00:00 Intro00:00:55 Creativity Is Booming — Restaurants Are Closing00:04:40 Why Café Continental Had To Feel Different00:10:55 The Restaurant Strategy That Made Them Viral00:16:40 Three Things That Keep Restaurants Booked00:24:00 The Reality Of Food Influencers00:29:00 Michelin Stars Don’t Make You Money00:36:00 Why Breakfast Is A Nightmare00:44:00 Customers Don’t Care About Your Process00:51:00 Admit When Your Idea Isn’t Working00:57:00 Manchester’s Next Creative Revolution01:03:00 From DJ Booths To Restaurant Culture01:10:00 What Levi’s Teaches Restaurants About Branding01:17:00 Why They Bet On Stalybridge01:24:00 Ryan’s Strange Route Into Hospitality01:31:00 What Makes A Bad Restaurant?01:36:00 Why Everyone Hates Small Plates01:44:00 San Sebastián Changed Their Food Philosophy01:50:00 Great Restaurants Need Great Timing01:54:00 Don’t Forget To Have Fun  ==============================================  ♨️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 the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲  ==============================================  🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)  Ayra is your external front of house. An artificially intelligent communications manager that lives on your website and across your social channels, chatting and responding to customers 24/7 with warmth and personality. She's trained on your business and built to act. Taking the reservation, holding the card, sending the reminder, recovering the lost booking. Instantly and autonomously.click the link to learn more. 📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out

    Manchester's Busiest Restaurant: "We Killed Everything That Made Us Cool” (and got busier) - Cafe Continental
  2. 9月14日

    Michelin Stars Make You Miserable. Do This For a Happy Life & Business - Michel Roux Jr. (round 2)

    Michel Roux Jr knows what it takes to build one of the world’s great restaurants. But behind the Michelin stars, MasterChef and Le Gavroche was a career shaped by pressure, burnout, family legacy and learning when to let go. Michel opens up about taking over Le Gavroche from his father Albert Roux, pushing against an “immovable” resistance to change, and why closing the legendary restaurant ultimately meant taking back control of his life. He shares what Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay were really like as young chefs, why chasing Michelin stars can be destructive, and how running transformed his health after years of debilitating migraines and stress. We also get into the business of brilliant hospitality: why he stopped serving lunch despite filling the restaurant, the simple test he uses to judge a restaurant by its butter, why you should let customers steal your umbrellas, handling brutal online reviews, and the tiny details that turn good service into something unforgettable. From Michelin-star kitchens to Marco, Gordon, MasterChef and nearly 60 years of Le Gavroche, this is Michel Roux Jr on excellence, simplicity, adversity and knowing what really matters. ON THE MENU:00:00:00 Intro00:03:10 Taking Over Le Gavroche From His Father00:09:40 What Would a Le Gavroche Sandwich Be?00:15:16 Why Chasing Michelin Stars Is Wrong00:22:12 How Running Ended Michel’s Debilitating Migraines00:28:41 Why Old-School Kitchens Had to Change00:34:29 The Right Way to Handle Complaints00:38:46 Why Michel Stopped Reading TripAdvisor00:42:53 Why Copying Instagram Food Doesn’t Work00:47:41 Why Great Leaders Step Away From Service00:52:00 Kitchen vs Front of House Warfare00:57:00 How Open Kitchens Changed Chef Culture01:00:26 Why Rugby Needs Characters01:04:00 What Marco Pierre White Was Really Like01:15:11 Have QR Codes Damaged Hospitality?01:20:09 The Butter Test for Great Restaurants01:24:51 Why Le Gavroche Killed Lunch01:30:26 MasterChef, TV Fame and Saying No01:38:43 Why Michel Roux Closed Le Gavroche01:42:46 Why Great Chefs Learn to Slow Down ==============================================  ♨️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 the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲  ==============================================  🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)  This episode was edited by: G.Thomas Craig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gthomascraig/)  Ayra is your external front of house. An artificially intelligent communications manager that lives on your website and across your social channels, chatting and responding to customers 24/7 with warmth and personality. She's trained on your business and built to act. Taking the reservation, holding the card, sending the reminder, recovering the lost booking. Instantly and autonomously.click the link to learn more. 📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out

    Michelin Stars Make You Miserable. Do This For a Happy Life & Business - Michel Roux Jr. (round 2)
  3. 9月7日

    Traditional Marketing Is F*cking Your Food Business - Bold Bean Co. Founder & Uncommon Chief Strategy Officer

    Bold Bean Co didn’t just make beans cool. They built a brand people actually care about. Tobey and Amelia join Dan to unpack how Bold Bean turned one of the least glamorous supermarket categories into a cult food brand, and why obsessing over culture, community and product beats blindly following the conventional FMCG playbook. From rejecting boring advertising and building genuine brand obsession, to supermarket listings, sustainability, hiring, growth and watching major competitors move into glass jars, this is a masterclass in making an everyday product feel anything but ordinary. ON THE MENU [00:00:00] Why Bold Bean Rejects the FMCG Playbook[00:06:35] How Do You Make Beans Desirable?[00:08:18] Beans Became Bold Bean’s Competitive Advantage[00:23:25] Building Bold Bean’s Brand From Obsession[00:42:18] Why Bold Bean Is Allergic to Advertising[00:50:42] Tesco’s Christmas Ads vs Performance Marketing[00:58:38] Can You Manufacture Brand Obsession?[01:01:40] Why “Be Bold” Became a Company Value[01:10:10] Why Sustainability Doesn’t Sell More Beans[01:21:03] Bold Bean’s Obsessive Customers Are the Moat[01:25:28] Marketing Is Downstream of Consumer Culture[01:42:54] What Happened When Heinz Copied Bold Bean?[01:51:35] The Hard Reality of Building Bold Bean[01:55:36] What Founders Never Tell You on LinkedIn  ==============================================  ♨️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 the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲  ==============================================  🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)  Ayra is your external front of house. An artificially intelligent communications manager that lives on your website and across your social channels, chatting and responding to customers 24/7 with warmth and personality. She's trained on your business and built to act. Taking the reservation, holding the card, sending the reminder, recovering the lost booking. Instantly and autonomously.click the link to learn more. 📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out

    Traditional Marketing Is F*cking Your Food Business - Bold Bean Co. Founder & Uncommon Chief Strategy Officer
  4. 8月31日

    London's Most Famous Sandwich Shop's Wild Story & The Secret to Happiness - Max's Sandwich Shop "Max Halley"

    Max Halley built one of London’s most cult-loved sandwich shops by ignoring almost every piece of conventional restaurant wisdom. In this brilliantly unfiltered conversation, Max joins Dan Pope to unpack how Max’s Sandwich Shop went from an empty Finsbury Park restaurant doing a handful of covers to a genuine London institution — without chasing hype, Michelin stars or customer suggestions. They get into why restaurant hype can be dangerous, the surprising philosophy behind achievable goals, why Max thinks sourdough is terrible for sandwiches, what Rick Rubin can teach hospitality about creativity, and the tiny behavioural tweaks that can completely change a business. Plus: New Orleans inspiration, pork pie mayonnaise, the science of the perfect sandwich, why vegetarian dishes shouldn’t be labelled with a “V”, and Max’s wonderfully simple rules for deciding what belongs between two slices of bread. {{===============ON THE MENU:=============== 00:00 INtro01:28 Building an Empty Sandwich Shop08:58 Why Customer Advice Can Kill Your Business17:34 Is Restaurant Hype Actually Dangerous?20:10 Why Achievable Goals Make You Happier29:45 Why Max Never Wanted Michelin Stars39:50 The Secret Philosophy Behind Max’s Sandwiches49:00 Why Sourdough Is Terrible for Sandwiches59:30 What Actually Makes the Perfect Bread?01:09:35 The New Orleans Sandwich Epiphany01:18:10 What Rick Rubin Gets Right About Creativity01:24:40 Why The Audience Comes Last01:31:30 Max’s Two Rules for New Ingredients01:34:25 The Michelin-Star Pork Pie Mayonnaise01:40:20 Tiny Changes That Transform Restaurants01:47:10 Why Max Hides the Vegetarian Option01:54:50 What Taco Bell Gets Wrong02:04:00 The Science of Crunch02:13:30 Why Anything Can Become a Sandwich  ==============================================  ♨️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 the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲  ==============================================  🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here ​ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here ​ (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/)  This episode was edited by: G.Thomas Craig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gthomascraig/)  Ayra is your external front of house. An artificially intelligent communications manager that lives on your website and across your social channels, chatting and responding to customers 24/7 with warmth and personality. She's trained on your business and built to act. Taking the reservation, holding the card, sending the reminder, recovering the lost booking. Instantly and autonomously.click the link to learn more. 📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out

    London's Most Famous Sandwich Shop's Wild Story & The Secret to Happiness - Max's Sandwich Shop "Max Halley"

簡介

HUNGRY is THE podcast for Challenger FMCG & Hospitality Founders wanting to pour gasoline on growth. We chat with the industry BIG HITTERS. We ooze out the HIDDEN success secrets they’ve never told before and dive deep into their gut-wrenching failures, so you avoid them. We help you grow bigger, faster, stronger. Over the last 6 years, we’ve chatted to some insane guests on the poddy: Rory Sutherland, Seth Godin, Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Tom Kerridge, Sir John Hegarty, The founders of SOHO House, TRIP, The Devonshire, Tony’s Chocolonely, Vita Coco Look, I’ll be blunt, HUNGRY is NOT your normal podcast. HUNGRY is NOT scripted and sterile Q&A interviews. HUNGRY is for pretty much no one. HUNRGY is a deliciously fun, wild and crazy, ADHD rollercoaster of free flowing conversations. got what it takes? Buckle up. Strap in. get ready to… FEED YOUR HUNGER

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