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

As CEO and as a chef, I'd been home, but I hadn't been fully 100% at home.

I was either on the phone, I was either just on emails, or I was completely consumed by something that was work-related.

And when I was CEO, I was away once a month traveling, sometimes for a week or 10 days.

So when I'd come back...

My plan was organize this, speak to this child, speak to this child.

It was the same as I organized my work life.

Everything was on a list, which is really bad, but it's just the way you function because you're so busy juggling things.

So we look to that and agree that, yes, this next chapter will be different.

We will start our own business.

And because we do that with the creatives, we know how to run these things.

Let's just do it.

So that was in 2018, we had the chat, we looked at options, and then in 2019, we launched our first business, Bank House, in Chislehurst, September 2019.

So everything looked great, the world looked amazing, and hospitality had a massive opportunity to grow.

Sun was out.

So we had six good months.

And then, yeah, then COVID hit.

So that must have been a bit of a nightmare, wasn't it?

You made this big investment, your wife Cecilia, and then suddenly COVID hit.

It was a nightmare.

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