Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
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Hospitality Meets... is your weekly light-hearted look into the stories and journeys that make up the wonderful world of hospitality. Join founder and host Phil Street as he meets people from all walks of life from within the industry from the Founders, the Chefs, the Hotel General Managers and Restaurant Managers to the Engineers, Designers, Financiers and even Politicians. Phil will be..
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
1M ago
Today marks the end of season 5 of the show and we are signing off with a bang. I welcomed Hamish Anderson to the show, CEO of Tate Enterprises. This episode was a totally joyous education from the outset and represents another wonderful corner of the industry, where art and hospitality collide, in glorious fashion (Have I just inadvertently written a tagline for next years fashion week?).
Hamish is brilliant, he oozes effortless passion for hospitality all the way through and with some cracking stories too.
We cover:-
January
The many enterprises of Tate
Early career
Getting into wine
Stock ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
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Another treat for you this week as I got some time with the wonderful Zoe Watts, Managing Director of Bennett Hay
Zoe's rise to MD has seen her take in some quite amazing places to work. In addition to her journey we also get through:-
Exploring being a nurse
The BHS Coffee Shop
Off to Uni
Beefeater Restaurants
Savill garden Restaurant
Becoming a GM
The people who see something in you
The Royal Society of Arts
Tate
Events
The Adaptability of Hospitality
Meetings with Royalty
The move to contract catering
Bennett Hay
And a whole lot more. Zoe's got some great stories up her sleeves which she ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
2M ago
Another treat for you this week as I got some time with the wonderful Zoe Watts, Managing Director of Bennett Hay
Zoe's rise to MD has seen her take in some quite amazing places to work. In addition to her journey we also get through:-
Exploring being a nurse
The BHS Coffee Shop
Off to Uni
Beefeater Restaurants
Savill garden Restaurant
Becoming a GM
The people who see something in you
The Royal Society of Arts
Tate
Events
The Adaptability of Hospitality
Meetings with Royalty
The move to contract catering
Bennett Hay
And a whole lot more. Zoe's got some great stories up her sleeves which she ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
2M ago
Time for a cheeky bonus and this week I welcomed the absolutely epic, and my good friend, Dr Lizzy Bernthal who is a resilience specialist to chat through work place Toxicity and how to eradicate it (Amongst other things).
Lizzy has an amazing story of how she ended up specialising in this under discussed, but relevant topic and we cover a lot including:-
The Army
Fighting back against Toxicity
Resilience
Forms of Toxicity
The Drama triangle
Empowerment
Language
Choices
The signs of Toxicity
Culture & Values
Coaching
And so much more. If you're in place that's toxic or just want to lear ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
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It's Valentines day and so I got to talk to someone about a subject I LOVE! That being, People!
I welcomed the quite superb Jo Harley, Co-founder of Korero and Hendrick & Hyde, to the show. Jo was nervous about coming on the show as she's never had the confidence to do this sort of thing before but she needn't have worried as she brought her natural, chatty self and we laid into a lot, including:-
Brewdog Waterloo
Marketing
Measures of success
Coming to work
What good looks like
Leisure Management Degrees
Cheerleading
Greece
Working in bars
Hospitality as National service
Fun
Inevitable e ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
2M ago
On a cold January day in 2024, I whisked myself off to enjoy the hospitality offered by the wonderful Tej Walia, Managing Director of Foxhills Collection. Whilst there, Tej and I had a chat about his career story so far, and what a story it is too.
We get through:-
Golf
Hotel Management as 2nd choice
Working through the departments
Impatience
The foundation years
Guernsey
Sweating
Hilton
Confidence and leadership
The Many forms of Mentoring
Fawsley Hall
Dartington estate
Foxhills
Evolution to MD
And so much more. I called this episode "Getting the foundations set" as we talk about the impor ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
2M ago
I properly love the people this little show has introduced me to and today you are all the wonderful benefactors of listening to my chat with "wee Scottish livewire", Rachel Thomson.
Rachel really brought the triple threat (Passion, Energy and Fun in abundance) to our chat, leaving nothing but gold in her wake. She's got great lessons all the way through in addition to that A game on fun.
We get through:-
Christmas
Managing a pub within the first year of her career
The pub life
Drive & Resilience
The early career lessons
The Foodie inspiration
Abu Dhabi & Dubai
Making the Women in F&a ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
2M ago
I properly love the people this little show has introduced me to and today you are all the wonderful benefactors of listening to my chat with "wee Scottish livewire", Rachel Thomson.
Rachel really brought the triple threat (Passion, Energy and Fun in abundance) to our chat, leaving nothing but gold in her wake. She's got great lessons all the way through in addition to that A game on fun.
We get through:-
Christmas
Managing a pub within the first year of her career
The pub life
Drive & Resilience
The early career lessons
The Foodie inspiration
Abu Dhabi & Dubai
Making the Women in F&a ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
3M ago
What a story and career journey we have for you this week as I got some time with Andrew Munt, CEO of Penta Hotels.
When we initially recorded this, Andrew was Chief of Operations & Commerce. A week before I was scheduled to air our original chat, Andrew let me know that he was going to be stepping up into the CEO role. As a result, we thought it was relevant to get him back for a quick round off of his story to include that wonderful news.
So this week, we have two distinct parts which will become obvious as you listen.
Beyond that, Andrews story is inspiring and educational all in one go ..read more
Hospitality Meets... with Phil Street
3M ago
A real treat for you this week as I got some time with Alison Cullin-Woodcock who is a Food & equipment development consultant, an area of the industry we have not really explored.
And I'll bet that some of this will blow your mind but more than that, Alison really brings the energy and passion so it's very easy to get on board with her journey.
We cover:-
The dogs in our life
Equipment & Innovation
Knowing what you want to do
Developing the palette
College
Getting the basics right
THE Mayonnaise disaster
Working through the sections
Hierarchy
Moving into Equipment Sales
Rebuilding th ..read more