Stuart Gillies
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893 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
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Who's that going to be?
And he said, someone who really knows what he's doing.
I said, okay, great.
And he said, that's going to be you.
And I said, oh, no, no, I'm not ready for that.
I said, I can't do that.
I'm a chef and I love being a chef.
He said, yeah, but you talk about change, what we need to do.
I think you can do it.
And you can't say no to that opportunity.
No, you can't.
It wasn't that I didn't like being a chef, but that opportunity was huge to have that then.
And we agreed that he would step back.
I'd have pretty much a clear run to change and make the changes that I felt needed to be done and just keep him in the loop while he was in the US a lot, doing the shows, earning money to support the business.
which is a really simple arrangement but it was there was a lot of layers of complexity in that and the business was yeah really brilliant in some areas and really damaged in other areas like lots of businesses as you progress through the years when things get tough you suddenly notice what doesn't work anymore yeah and as i understand you had to make some quite difficult decisions you had to close some restaurants like you opened others i think i closed yeah so over the period i was in charge
I closed 12 businesses around the world and we opened 18.
So that was the transition.
So really there was a lot of things that were... What were your decision points on why you decided to close something and what you were going to open?
It definitely wasn't emotional.
It was just logical.
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