In Episode 15 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with Lorraine Heskin who is the founder and owner of The Gourmet Food Parlour Restaurant Group. There are 6 restaurants across Ireland at present and there are also a whole range of other parts of the business under the one GFP umbrella, including a very successful catering side to the business where Lorraine has a 5000sq ft unit in Dublin catering for everything from Weddings to birthday partys. We hear from Lorraine about her early career walking the streets of Manhattan as a sales rep selling Irish food and drinks, the difficult decision to leave the States, coming home and becoming an export sales and marketing manager for a large Irish food company, the journey of creating her own business and why she wanted to create a brand, learning from customer feedback, low points along the way, creating a national restaurant group plus much much more! Click the Subscribe button above or follow us on Spotify or most other podcast platforms to be the first to see new episodes out every Wednesday!