#257 - Hospitality Meets Jonny Bramwell - Laughs & Balance

About this episode

Phil Street interviews Jonny Bramwell about his experiences in hospitality, discussing themes of balance, burnout, and unexpected life lessons.

This week I sat down with Jonny Bramwell, Regional Head of Operations for Rosa’s Thai — a man responsible for 22 restaurants, thousands of miles of motorway, and quite possibly the most unexpectedly philosophical conversation we’ve had on Hospitality Meets in a while. What starts as a chat about pubs, restaurants and leadership quickly becomes a brilliant conversation about burnout, ambition, balance, accidental life lessons, and why sometimes the best thing that can happen to your career… is getting sacked from your first hospitality job. There are stories of legendary £4.50 breakfasts, pub landlords who accidentally become life mentors, entrepreneurial chaos, brutal kitchen lessons, and one particularly wonderful moment involving a manager solving Phil’s chronic lateness problem with the revolutionary concept of… buying a second alarm clock. Groundbreaking leadership. Along the way, Jonny talks openly about the moments where hospitality nearly broke him, the dangers of arrogance disguised as ambition, and how learning to understand yourself is just as important as learning how to run a business. It’s thoughtful, funny, honest, slightly chaotic at times… and packed full of gold…

People in this episode

Host: Phil Street

Guest: Jonny Bramwell

Topics covered

• hospitality
• leadership
• burnout
• balance
• entrepreneurship
• life lessons

Keywords

• hospitality
• leadership
• burnout
• ambition
• life lessons
• entrepreneurship
• Rosa’s Thai

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rosa’s Thai

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