Stuart Gillies

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James Reed: all about business · 68. Ex Gordon Ramsay Group CEO reveals his turnaround playbook | Stuart Gillies · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

And we had lunch at Danielle.

And at the end of the meal, Danielle came out and spoke to us.

And I said, oh, actually, I wrote to you, Danielle, about a job here, but I didn't hear anything back.

He said, what's your name?

So he went away and came back two minutes later.

He said, yeah, I've got your paperwork here.

I just, I was waiting for timing because it takes quite a long time for the J1 visa.

So he said, I've got your paperwork here.

So yeah, we're looking to contact you and you would start in September that year.

And it was March at that point.

So I waited a year for that job, Danielle, from when I wrote.

But it was a good story about just going out and getting a job.

i mean literally going there and saying well i wasn't taking no for an answer no quite but you were very focused on what you wanted to do and where you wanted to work and who for

yeah i i had a dream i had an ambition and i was determined i would find a way to make that work so yeah we went out and and it worked and i spent uh 18 months with daniel which was yeah yeah that was phenomenal i mean daniel was the most incredible kitchen because it was full of you know it was full of chefs from france and and america but the guys from france had all worked in every single top three star in france and they wanted to come and live in america so they were coming from michelle bra

from mart vera they were coming from twa grow bocus oh lamb was it i mean everywhere that you would hear about and just be like wow so they'd all work there so what a stage for me as a cook to judge myself on you know you're called ling lazy there no they call me tea bag tea bag

So yeah, I seem to have a nickname everywhere.

Maybe they didn't like Stuart.

But yeah, so I was teabagged there because that's what the Americans called the British.

Okay.

They haven't forgotten that tea party in Boston.

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