Stuart Gillies
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What does it really take to scale a founder-led hospitality business?
And how do you make tough decisions when your reputation and livelihood are on the line?
Today on All About Business, I'm joined by Stuart Gillies, founder behind No.
8 Sevenoaks and Bank House Chislehurst, independent restaurants rooted in seasonal cooking, thoughtful hospitality, and strong local communities.
Stuart is the former CEO of the Gordon Ramsay Group, where he helped lead one of the UK's most recognisable hospitality brands through a major transformation, experience he now draws on in building his own ventures.
Stuart offers a rare perspective on what it takes to move from chef to CEO, make high stakes decisions in hospitality and build resilient businesses in one of the toughest industries there is.
Well, today on All About Business, I couldn't be more delighted than to welcome Stuart Gillies.
Stuart is a chef, restaurateur and former CEO of the Gordon Ramsay Group.
He currently runs, with his wife Cecilia, two famous restaurants, No.
8 in Sevenoaks and The Bank House in Chislehurst.
you've got an amazing story that i'm looking forward to sort of excavating stuart and i'm looking forward to hearing all about your journey but i just looked up i looked up number eight and seven oaks on my computer just before you came and it's very highly rated google 4.7 out of five but i noticed on tripadvisor that there are 103 restaurants in seven oaks
So how do you stand out?
How do you compete?
How do you make a business work in such an environment?
That's my first question because I think it might begin a conversation in an interesting way.
Well, thank you for inviting me today.
That's a real pleasure.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
So, yeah, I didn't know there were that many restaurants in Sevenoaks.
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