King of Leon
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
John Vincent of fast food chain Leon tells Will Bain what he sees in the future of the business - including how he thinks weight-loss jabs will be good for the company.
Our weekly panel looks back at a week of news that's included announcements on rail in the north of England, another government policy U-turn and charges against the chair of the US central bank.
And interest in going vegan for the month of January could be fading - one plant-based food producer tells us why they've moved on from the campaign.
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| 0:39.8 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:45.0 | Coming up today, what went wrong at the fast food chain, Leon, and how does it get back on track? |
| 0:49.9 | We'll hear from one of the company's founders back to try and lead it out of administration. |
| 1:06.0 | Also on the programme today, it's been a week of announcements for new rail in the north of England, government policy U-turns, and charges against the head of the US central bank, so our Friday panel will have plenty to pick through this morning. And interest in veganary, going vegan for the month of January seems to be fading. One plant-based food producer. Tell us why they've moved on from the campaign. Wake Up to Money with Will Bade. Morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Friday the 16th of January. Just gone, 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you again this morning. Great to have your companies we round out another week here on the program. been a busy week, hasn't it? So plenty for our panel to pick through everything from the GDP figures surprising yesterday for the UK economy. |
| 1:34.7 | The row we started the week, the extraordinary row, really, between President Trump and his administration, and Jerome Powell, the head of the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, and the impact |
| 1:45.0 | of all of that potentially has had on the global economy this week. So our panel are standing |
| 1:50.1 | by to work through all of that. We'd love your thoughts. As well as we move through the program |
| 1:54.5 | this morning, perhaps you've got a view on Leon. We're going to hear from John Vincent, one of |
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