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 just their knowledge was phenomenal.

So I had a fantastic year.

working with them in Sweden.

Then I came back to the UK, sort of family, spent a few months here, and then I went off to Italy, to Rome, actually.

And you learned Italian, I imagine.

Yeah, I learned Italian.

It just happened.

Back then, you could take a one-way trip.

So I basically saved up money for a few months.

I guess you still can.

Maybe with Brexit you can't get to work so easily.

Yeah, that's the thing.

So back then I had a one-way ticket and about £300, went out there, and three, four days in I didn't have enough to fly back.

So I started knocking on doors everywhere, all over the city, and eventually got sent to a place called the Lord Byron, which was a beautiful white marble hotel behind a park in Rome called Villa Borghese.

Sounds quite British.

Well, it was named after Byron, of course, yeah.

Yeah, almost serendipitous, yeah, in the direction.

And I arrived there and they just said, okay, come back tomorrow.

And we didn't discuss money or job or anything.

They just said, come back tomorrow.

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