James Perry

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571 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Somewhat, yeah.

I'd like to understand your journey.

What happened was my brother, my mum and dad had, my dad had been a schoolteacher and had got sort of bored, aged 37.

And with four young children, he decided to leave and decided to go into the city.

And he lasted two weeks there.

and found himself unemployed with four young children.

And in desperation, he opened a shop in Tunbridge High Street.

And so my formative years and my siblings were spent sort of serving coffee in this coffee shop as baristas.

And they couldn't source cakes, so they decided to open a cake bakery.

And sort of slightly by mistake, they ended up running a small bakery business which supplied coffee shops in the southeast.

And my brother had joined it, my brother Ed, and joined it as the sales manager.

And one of the jobs he had whilst he was there was selling the reject cakes, and he retailed them out of a shop, whole cakes, frozen.

And whilst he was doing that, he thought, if I had an equivalent quality of prepared meal, home-cooked food, I could have a retail business.

So he tried to persuade my mum and dad to do that.

He's an extraordinary entrepreneur, but as a young 20-something, he was possibly not the most easy person to invest in.

So my parents quite sensibly said, actually, I don't think we want to do this with you.

So he just got on and did it on his own.

And he created a business.

He found a chef.

Whilst he was selling cakes, he found a chef who was running an events catering business who was a brilliant chef called Dale Penfold.

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