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.

Charlie McVeigh

Jun 27
2 min

Independence Day: It Could Have Been Worse

Well, the clarity came, and it came sooner than perhaps we had expected given the last minute nature of so many government communications...

Charlie McVeigh

Jun 14
1 min

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 we...

Charlie McVeigh

Mar 20
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
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 hospitali...

Charlie McVeigh

Nov 29, 2019
4 min

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 ...

Charlie McVeigh

Nov 5, 2019
4 min

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 talkin...

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 drop...

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...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

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...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

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 re...