Episode 16 - 100 Burgers Groups Founder on how to build a viral hospitality brand

Episode 72 - The Importance of Indigenous Ingredients with Hayley Blieden from The Australian Superfood Co.Hayley is the founder, chief dietitian and Managing Director of The Australian Superfood Co (TASC). Prior to founding, TASC Hayley worked as a nutrition journalist and nutritionist at the North Melbourne Football Club. She has BSc in Dietetics and Nutrition (Monash) and an MBA (Deakin). Hayley founded The Australian Superfood Co. in 2015 after 2 years of research and product development. Two years later she completely transformed the business away from consumer foods into becoming a major supplier of native ingredients to food and beverage manufacturers and consumers in Australia and overseas. Hayley has juggled motherhood (she has 2 children under 4) and a rapidly growing business while keeping herself fit and healthy. In 2017 she won the Rising Star AusMumpreneur award and later that year won the inaugural Lions Den award at the Fine Foods Expo in Sydney.In this podcast we talk about:-How The Australian Superfood Co. started.-Why she wanted to focus on indigenous ingredients and why it is important to her.-Why the brand supports Red Dust Role Models.-What Hayley believes the biggest growing market for the brand is and where she would like to take it.Please find out more about the brand here:Website: https://austsuperfoods.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austsuperfoods/

28 Juni 202030min

Episode 71 - How digitisation will evolve restaurant experiences with Hungry Hungry CEO Mark CalabroMark is the co-founder of two hospitality technology businesses: HungryHungry and OrderMate. Mark started thinking about and developing food and beverage payment systems while completing a five-year Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering and Applied Science, Multimedia double degree at Swinburne University of Technology.In 2003, he and his co-founder, Shannon Hautot, outgrew the Melbourne garage they started in and launched OrderMate, a revolutionary POS system for an industry better acquainted with buying a cash register out of a box.In this podcast we talk about how he started the Hungry Hungry brand, the change in delivery basket size during COVID, his thoughts on suburban venues coming back first as more people work from home, and how the Hungry Hungry brand will help more venues move online.Please find out more about Hungry Hungry here:https://www.hungryhungry.com/Please always follow us here:https://www.instagram.com/open_pantry_consulting/

25 Juni 202036min

Episode 70 - How Fable Foods is now one of the strongest meat-alternative brands in Australia with CEO Michael FoxMichael grew up as a meat-loving Australian. As a child, he once penned a song (more like a demanding chant) entitled “Steak of Glory”. He became vegetarian in 2015 for health, environmental and ethical reasons, but he still craves that steak of glory.Michael shops at his local Farmer’s Market on the Sunshine Coast in Australia on a Saturday morning bake sourdough and generally like to cook healthy food for his family which includes a three and 1-year-old (he promises he’s not got them accidentally drunk). He wanted to combine his cravings for meat with his healthy home cooking habits to create whole-food-based plant-based meat.In this episode, we discuss why Michael decided to start Fable and the importance of meat alternatives in today’s environment as well as discussing some of the destructive myths that surround meat alternatives.We had a great conversation as it is a balanced conversation that is open, honest and thoughtful.Key links:www.fablefood.coinstagram.com/fablefoodco

22 Juni 202035min

Episode 69 - Let's Eat Homemade App with it's CEO Chris on how he is scaling the platformAt Let’s Eat, homemade meals and produce are now available just like takeaway, for delivery or pick up. Be it delicious meals ready to eat, fresh organic homegrown produce, or attending a local neighbour’s food event or dinner, simply browse, find, and order. It’s about seeing what amazing food and events are available in your neighbourhood.In this episode, I talk with Chris the CEO of Let’s Eat Homemade about the brand and how he has scaled it to now. He gives great insights about the brand’s early stages of growth, how the platform can be utilised by chefs and home cooks, and the plans for the future, it’s a really exciting conversation.Please find more about Let’s Eat Homemade here:Website: https://www.letseat.com.au/Download the app: Search ‘Let's Eat: Homemade Food’

18 Juni 202031min

Episode 68 - What award winning journalist and food writer Kara Irving feels about the Melbourne hospitality scenes recovery Kara Irving is an award winning, multi-skilled journalist who has worked in some of the most respected newsrooms in the country. She writes and produces content for online, while working as homepage editor. In 2016, Kara began presenting lifestyle and food video content, which appears on the Herald Sun's social media platforms. She's also a food writer and has restaurant, cafe and bar reviews published in Herald Sun Weekend, Delicious on Sundays and writes a weekly drinks column for Taste. Therefore, she knows all about food!In this podcast we talk about how she finds the treatment from hospitality owners when she writes on a venue, where she believes in the industry will go next to recover from the pandemic. what makes a good food writer in a world of everyone having an opinion, and all about her new program called 'Snack Chat'Please connect with Kara here:https://www.karairving.com/https://www.karairving.com/snack-chat

15 Juni 202039min

Episode 67 - How to build a dominant Tea Brand with Julie from Eloments Vitamin TeaFollowing two years of research, Julie Hirsch launched Eloments Natural Vitamin Tea with Cofounder Nicole Lamond - the world's first 100% natural vitamin tea. After just over a year of sales, Eloments has secured shelf space in 2000 stores around the world, providing tea lovers with 9 essential vitamins and minerals in each cup. Julie was recently named the Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year and listed in Forbes 30 under 30.In this podcast we talk about how 97% of the tea market is not fair trade and about how customers are craving responsible brands during this time. We also discuss how Julie and Nicole landed a contract with Wooolworths at the start of the business and were in 75% of their stores within 6 months of the initial launch of Eloments.As a female founded brand Julie and her business partner have done an amazing job in breaking through some of the barriers of entry, and I am very fortunate that she discusses this openly in the podcast.Please find out more about Eloments Vitamin Tea here:https://eloments.com/https://www.instagram.com/elomentstea/Thanks so much for listening, Shaun

11 Juni 202029min

Epsiode 66 - How food security is a growing issue with Matt the CEO of Food For Change Food for change is a not for profit organisation founded by Social Entrepreneur Matt Donovan. What Food for Change is a farm that supplies fresh food to those people in need. Since it started in 2017 it has produced enough food for 130,000 meals and is completely run by volunteers.1 in 10 people will have food insecurity in their life. 2500 food organisations are feeding people everyday in Australia, and Food for Changes uses that infrastructure. Food for change can ideally produce a meal for 10 cents.We talk about all this and more as well as how Matt is working on a marketplace for hospitality venues to donate foodPlease find out more about Food For Change here:info@foodforchange.org.auwww.foodforchange.com.auAs always please follow us here:https://www.instagram.com/open_pantry_consulting/

8 Juni 202031min

Episode 65 - Joelle from Wolfdown in how to focus on one great product and do it well Joelle tarted the Wolf Down brand was after many conversations with her fiancee and group of friends about how someone should start a Doner brand.Sometimes customers got confused in what the product was, and she and her team had to educate their customers on what real Doner is.In this podcast we talk about how keeping the menu simplistic will allow the product to go viral on social media, how the Ottawa scene is at the moment, the importance of controlling the controllables and how her team has stepped up during this time.The brand wanting to move to Vegas for their second store and I'm excited to see them do this. Joelle is a breath of fresh air in hospitality leadership.Joelle’s article on Medium: https://medium.com/@joelleparenteau/why-are-restaurants-so-fucked-ca07c4624745Wolfdown Website: https://www.wolfdown.com/Wolfdown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolf.down/

4 Juni 202037min