EE 262 - Food & Festival Entrepreneur Andy Noonan - The Business of a Great Party
Andy Noonan is festival director, curator and owner of Big Grill, Me Auld Flower and Baste (soon to be Scorchio). He started out life in events as a DJ and nightclub promoter at the age of 16. Since then he has successfully organised Europe's Biggest...
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Show Notes
Andy Noonan is festival director, curator and owner of Big Grill, Me Auld Flower and Baste (soon to be Scorchio).
He started out life in events as a DJ and nightclub promoter at the age of 16. Since then he has successfully organised Europe's Biggest BBQ & Food Festival, Big Grill, Baste a BBQ catering & events company
In this episode, we explore a huge variety of topics including:
- The complete guide to developing a festival
- The harsh reality of why most food businesses flop
- Is it possible to make a food business profitable in 2023?
- How Irish people's culinary tastes have changed
- Why Covid altered peoples festival going behaviour
- The cult of the BBQ & why he believes it's an emerging trend
- Why you must give people an Instagram-worthy experience now
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