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

For me, that sort of job, when I get into that role or even how I'd always functioned as a...

operator and as a chef, for me, it was often, it was just mathematics.

Some things added up and some things didn't.

So you got to make decisions that are not emotional.

You really need to get the facts, gather the data and make a really informed decision.

So I'd always done that my whole career and probably my whole life in lots of ways.

Just naturally.

So when I got into that role as CEO, you just have to strip back and see, you need to be able to see what the root of the problem is, get underneath the skin, get to the core of the problem and then make a decision and move on and then execute that.

So these were businesses you didn't really see a future in because the mathematics didn't add up and you couldn't see a way of turning that around.

didn't it didn't add up financially and it was also draining the the resources because when you have businesses in trouble every entrepreneur it consumes cash and it also eats up all your time you put way more time into a business that's doing badly than you do into a business that's doing well that is just that's just the facts of it a business that's trouble you put way more time and emotion and energy into that to fix it a business that's going well you just

You just keep an eye on it and you let it tick along.

So there were lots of those businesses that needed attention.

And a lot of them were international deals that had been set up by other people that were just draining resource, weren't contributing financially.

They were eating up Gordon's time.

So you'd have to get Jordan on a plane, fly him out.

take his time up which was taking him away from things actually that were generating yeah that were more profitable simple as that so so so those 12 were fairly easy decisions actually and what were you looking for in terms of opening new ventures well as as i looked at it and spoke to gordon about so we saw that everything was branded gordon and ramsey which makes sense for lots of people but i think what i saw when i looked into the group and and the the

the micro detail levels, I saw that everyone was hiding under the brand and they were looking and thinking, well, if things aren't working, we'll just wait for the brand to fix it.

But it wasn't.

And so the people working within it had got used to the good days, big spend, high income.

So that was fixing all the problems in lots of ways until you get to a point when that stopped.

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