Meat Merchant Peter Hannan on Quality, Attention To Detail & “Chance Encounters”

 

Peter Hannan is a Meat Merchant who supplies 400+ restaurants throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe, including some of the biggest names in the industry.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • How he started out in the meat business

  • (Aka, butchering lambs for his mum's mate's freezer as a boy)

  • Moving to America at 19-years-old to learn from the masters of his industry

  • Becoming the highest-paid executive in Ireland by the age of 22

  • Setting up his own business

  • The decision to focus on quality rather than quantity

  • Why attention to detail is the most crucial thing in business

  • Buying 5 tonnes of salt from Pakistan

  • How one smoke break changed his business forever

  • And advice he'd give to his 18-year-old self

Check it out.

Hannan Meats: https://www.hannanmeats.com/

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