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 at the end of the year, I was lucky enough to get taken on of the three kids.

They choose one to keep on.

So where was this?

This was in Crawley in Sussex.

But what was it?

Oh, it was a local Crest Hotel.

So do you remember there was a group called the Crest Hotel Group?

Right.

And they had a hotel there, a kitchen, old style, 80s kitchen.

So were you cooking breakfast for people?

You're doing everything really, you know, and the chefs drank beer and it was rock and roll, 80s kitchen.

While working, yeah.

And I just thought this is completely normal.

But the head chef was really good.

He was really talented, a guy called David Woods.

And he said to me, if you're going to make something of this career, get yourself to London.

And so he introduced me to someone who was at the Royal Garden Hotel and I went and worked at the Royal Garden Hotel.

in kensington and that finished my apprenticeship at westminster college so that was my three years of 706 one and two city and guilds and then finished my year um at the oil garden and met a lot of chefs that i was yeah then in so when you completed your apprenticeship what sort of qualification did you have as you get a city and guilds yeah uh 706 one and two right that's what they called which is was the basic of that era that means you can go to a kitchen and

It's a really good qualification actually, yeah.

You have to study, you have to pass, you have to do well to achieve that.

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