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“And it, it's actually more likely to be our mistake because, you know, people come into the business and they go, God, this is not quite what I was expecting, or it's a bit harder work than I was expecting, or this or that.”

“Well, I think if you do that, I think it's because you really don't think, you, you'd much rather, I much rather would promote within. So if you end up having to go to the outside to bring in rather than promote within, it means that the person isn't right. Bu…”

“Going into New York and trying to get it built, trying to get it open, you know, that, that really nearly took us down.”

“Well, first of all, I did have Three restaurants before opening Cafe Burn, which were called Over the Top and they didn't work. And actually it's still the same company. It's still the company today is still that same company. So it never went bust”

“Interviews are really difficult. You know, it's just a Play act, isn't it? And actually you never really find out until someone joins you.”

“I don't want to say I'm, you know, I'm Mr. Nice guy all the time. Cause you know, you can't be when you're, you, when you're running a day to day business, which is running 24 hours a day, seven days a week globally.”

“At the moment we already have a presence in all those cities through our membership CWH, which is basically, as it says on the tin, cities without houses. So within those 85 cities, we already have membership.”