#104. Chicken & Blues Restaurant Founder - Josh Simons
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Josh Simons has hospitality running through his veins.
At the age of 21, he launched his first nightclub project as part of his family business, and then went international, operating nightclubs in Sandbanks, London, Marbella and Barbados.
10 years later, he left the family business and went out alone to explore ventures in nightclubs, restaurants, events and marketing services.
He’s now co-owner and founder of the multi-award winning ‘Chicken & Blues’ restaurants, and is expanding his portfolio of food and drink businesses.
Josh has had his fair share of bumps in the road along the way, so it was great to hear about his journey, resilience and how he spots his next opportunity.
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| 0:00.0 | We were booking massive DJs and Richard Carr, when I was been on your podcast, he had a club at the other end of town called Crank. |
| 0:08.8 | He had a couple of good promoters working for him. |
| 0:10.8 | And it turned into an absolute war. |
| 0:12.8 | He used to send a limousine to our club and get its promoters out of the limousine to people in our queue offering free champagne and free limousine rights crank. |
| 0:20.9 | And I stand there watching our punters get into his limousine and go to his club. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm just like, happy to compete with that. |
| 0:27.4 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 0:27.8 | So, and he'd book Eric Pritz. |
| 0:30.2 | We'd book David Getter. |
| 0:31.4 | We'd brought Marillo. |
| 0:32.3 | He'd like a DJ war. |
| 0:34.9 | Were you burning cash at a point for, fuck we're going to win this battle yeah it got |
| 0:41.1 | ultra competitive okay they got ultra competitive um and actually quite nasty and toxic |
| 0:45.5 | welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival |
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| 1:05.0 | On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives. |
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| 1:17.5 | Woodall. I reply to every single message. Josh Simons has hospitality running through his veins. |
| 1:25.0 | At the age of 21 he launched his first nightclub as part of the |
| 1:28.2 | family business and then went international operating nightclubs in Sandbanks, London, Marbea and Barbados. |
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