It's Come to This: I Am Missing the Psychodrama of Conferences & Awards Ceremonies
The young, thrusting entrepreneur in ‘The Sector’ opening his or her third site starts to come to the attention of the trade press. If,...
Charlie McVeigh
Hospitality Sector Investor
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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PEERING INTO THE FUTURE OF QSR FROM MANILA IN THE '90S
In 1995 the London-based consulting firm I was working for posted me to Manila to set up an Asia office to service our No.1 client,...
Lessons from The Great Fire for Landlords and Operators
Anyone who went to school in this country knows that Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane just off Eastcheap on 2nd...
2021: The Property Opportunity of a Generation?
In 1948 Donald Gosling and Ronald Hobson, recently demobbed from the navy, took a wild gamble. They scraped together £200 and bought a...
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...
PROJECT PINT LAUNCHES TO ‘FREE THE PINT’
I'm proud to announce the launch of Project Pint, a grass-roots campaign to re-open pubs and restaurants, as soon as possible, as they...
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...
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...
The Turkish Grill Which, In A Small Way, Brings a Divided Community Together
When I bought my house just off Ladbroke Grove in 1991 – at a price agreed the week after George Bush Sr invaded Kuwait – the area still...
A Pint is a Human Right. Even for the Sober Guy
This week I hopped on the train to Oxford to take my daughter out to lunch. She just started at the university there and we got to...
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...
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...
Brits can save France’s moribund food scene
Charlie McVeigh laments the decline in French hospitality and wonders if plucky Britons might save the day? It has become a smug trope of...
Who needs France? Get down to the Cornish Riviera...
Bunker Projects founder Charlie McVeigh explains why he believes the Cornish town of St Ives is setting an example for other seaside...