• "I want to be the BEST in the World” Greg Flynn, Founder & CEO of the Biggest Franchisee in the World
    2025/01/22
    Today’s episode features an exciting conversation with Greg Flynn, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Flynn Group, the world’s largest franchisee. With over 2.900 restaurants across three countries — the USA, Australia, and New Zealand — Greg operates well-known brands such as Applebee’s, Panera Bread, Taco Bell, Arby’s, Wendy’s, and Pizza Hut, in addition to 40 fitness clubs and 120 hotels.
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    58 分
  • "Picking the right founders is an art, not a science." - Darrel Connell, Managing Partner from IMBIBA
    2025/01/08
    Today, we have Darrel Connell with us, a trusted investor in our industry and Managing Partner at IMBIBA, a private equity fund specializing in the UK leisure sector. With over 25 years in the market, IMBIBA employs 14 investment specialists and manages €140 million, focusing primarily on F&B businesses such as Farmer J and Pizza Pilgrims. Notably, IMBIBA is certified B-Corp.
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    51 分
  • “Ask yourself: have you been a good CEO?” - David Baumgartner, co-founder and CIO of Dean & David
    2024/12/25
    This week with David Baumgartner, founder and CIO of “Dean & David”, known for its fresh, healthy, and sustainable dishes. With a vision to redefine fast food as healthier and more conscious, he opened the first restaurant in Munich in 2007. Today, “Dean & David” boasts over 150 locations across multiple countries and is considered a pioneer in modern, sustainable dining concepts.
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    46 分
  • "Block out the noise. Focus on yourself." - Laura Harper-Hinton, Co-founder & CEO Caravan
    2024/12/11
    Today, we are joined by Laura Harper-Hinton, Co-founder & CEO of Caravan. Caravan, a coffee roastery and restaurant operator, was a pioneer in the specialty coffee sector and has since grown to operate eight stores in London, one in Manchester, and three coffee bars. Caravan has achieved this year €30 million in sales, €2.5 million in profit, employs 500 people, and is proudly B-Corp certified.
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    56 分
  • "It’s bullshit, you never have it under control" - Patrick Hennig, CEO & co-fouder of nexenio & culture4life (Luca App)
    2024/11/28
    This week with Patrick Hennig, CEO and co-fouder of nexenio and of culture4life, the company better known for the Luca app, an app that was launched in 2020 during COVID lockdowns to help restaurants, bars, clubs and events to skip the manual registration of their guests and to allow easier tracking in case of a COVID outbreak.
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    55 分
  • "You won’t die quickly" - Andreas J. Young & Sebastian Sung Chu Lechle, Mmaah Korean BBQ
    2024/11/06
    This week with Andreas J. Young and Sebastian Sung Chu Lechle from Mmaah, Korean BBQ. For the first time, we have two guests—and they’re brothers! Having grown up between Germany and Korea, they opened their first restaurant in 2013, combining fast food with a healthy twist inspired by Korean street food. Mmaah now operates 10 locations: 8 in Berlin and 2 in Munich. With over 120 employees, they’ve reached €9 million in total sales, with 50% of sales coming from delivery.
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    56 分
  • "Embrace the crazy ones." - Christoph Hoffmann, Founder 25hours
    2024/10/23
    Today, we have Christoph Hoffmann, Founder of 25hours Hotels, with the motto: "You know one, you know none." With 2.000 employees and almost 40 culinary outlets, including NENI, Christoph discusses how she and other F&B heroes shaped the brand positioning of 25hours Hotels through their culinary focus.
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    55 分
  • NewMorrow, Shaping the Future of Hospitality
    2024/10/09
    We have spoken 1,6 Mio. words so far in our podcasts and gathered lots of learnings from interviewing 25 entrepreneurs which we summarized in our White Paper. Download for free here: https://www.new-morrow.com/whitepaper
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    39 分