Name: Lunch and Learn: How to start and grow a successful food business
Uploaded: 2021-03-17
Description: Petra Barran, founder of KERB, shares her insight into how to start and grow a food business, from the earliest idea stage to developing a business plan.

Petra Barran, founder of KERB, shares her insight into how to start and grow a food business, from the earliest idea stage to developing a business plan.

Lunch and Learn: How to start and grow a successful food business

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In this Lunch and Learn, Petra Barran, founder of KERB, shares her insight into how to start and grow a food business, from the earliest idea stage to the point where you're developing a business plan.

Petra began in the mobile food business in 2005 when she hit the streets with Choc Star, Britain's first dedicated chocolate van. Out on the road, she discovered a go-getting community of fellow traders and saw the potential of their combined power.

In 2009, she co-founded eat.st, a street food collective with the aim of 'driving British street food forward' and then went solo to launch KERB in 2012. An MSc in Urban Studies from UCL has helped to inform and develop KERB's ethos of good people + great food + public spaces = what a city is made for.

Petra was named 'One of the Ten People Who Changed the World' by the Independent in 2011. In 2016, she was named in Big Hospitality's Power List 100 No.6 of the 'disruptors' and in 2018 TimeOut listed her as one of 50 Great Londoners making the city 'a fantastic place to go out in right now'.

After a few years living in New Orleans, hunting for treasure, Petra is back in London and spending her time working on KERB's new online food business course, KERB Classroom and Seven Dials Market's growth, development and return to public life!

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Back in November 2001, Jamie Christoforou arrived in Plymouth on a National Express coach, with two bags and £50 in his pocket. He didn’t have a job or any form of income and barely had enough to cover one week’s rent for a bedsit near the train station. He just hoped that the landlord who said he would meet him there, actually turned up, otherwise he would have been sleeping on the streets. Some would say he was the definition of a lost cause. But that didn’t stop him. In 2002, with no business qualifications or degrees, Jamie and Kevin, decided to start their own business. With no money and no idea what they were doing, it’s safe to say that their friends and family weren’t exactly optimistic about it. In fact, Kevin’s parents whose house they were planning on running the business from, said they couldn’t do it from their house. But they were adamant about proving everyone that doubted them wrong. 19 years later at the age of 37 and 45, Jamie &amp; Kevin officially retired!  After pulling off a multi-million business exit, retiring themselves and their family, and accumulating a wealth of knowledge about starting, scaling, and selling businesses, they made it their mission to help businesses and start-ups like you, formulate strategies for consistent growth.
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“After taking our previous business from zero to a multi-million exit, we now help business owners and managers, to grow and scale their businesses” 

Jamie mentors business owners and managers using the Zero to Exit 4-Step Formula. This covers attracting potential customers, Converting these into paying customers, nurturing the relationship with the customer and how to grow and scale your business. These are just the four broad areas to the Zero to Exit 4-Step Formula.

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