Charlie Says

Charlie has written extensively for the press on the food & beverage industry and is also the subject of frequent articles on the sector and his achievements in business. Below are extracts from his regular column for the Propel newsletter.

 
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Charlie McVeigh
  • Aug 12
  • 3 min

I Got Culture-Slammed by Breakfast Club

Good culture is an amazing thing. This week I went to my first Breakfast Club Summer Slam, an all-day sports competition where the...

Charlie McVeigh
  • Aug 7, 2020
  • 4 min

Working from Home is Good for Noone

Picture the scene. An eager Head of People waits outside the Founder’s office. It’s her first big face-to-face meeting since lockdown and...

Charlie McVeigh
  • Mar 20, 2020
  • 4 min

Building a New Jerusalem after Corona

The original title of this piece was “What’s Culture without People?”. When I proposed this at the beginning of the week to Mark Wingett...

Charlie McVeigh
  • Jan 26, 2020
  • 4 min

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

How to Succeed in Hospitality in the early 20s Reading the trades and business pages you’d be forgiven for thinking that the UK...

Charlie McVeigh
  • Sep 29, 2019
  • 3 min

Lunch is Dead! Long live Lunch!

There’s something about a “proper lunch” for a middle-aged hospitality professional that’s not dissimilar to his or her younger self...

Charlie McVeigh
  • Sep 23, 2019
  • 4 min

Dream Colossus

Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh asks what’s stopping the UK from producing global hospitality brands On a morning in August I decided...