Jonathan Downey's guest appearances

Jonathan Downey

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London Real

KERB LIFE

Hospitality Mavericks Podcast Show

Humans of Hospitality

Supersonic Hospitality Marketing Podcast Sponsored by Vita Mojo feat. Mark McC

Tom Barton

Matt Grech-Smith

Simon Mitchell

Will Beckett

Adam Rowledge

David Chenery

Rob Liddiard

Chip Conley

Tom Lionetti-Maguire

Griff Holland

Charlie McVeigh

Rory Sutherland

James Altucher

Marta Pogroszewska

Simon Potts

OwlTail

BUILD YOUR DREAM BUSINESS IN 8 WEEKS: https://londonreal.tv/biz/ 2021 SUMMIT TICKETS: https://londonreal.tv/summit/ NEW MASTERCLASS EACH WEEK: http://londonreal.tv/masterclass-yt LATEST EPISODE: https://londonreal.link/latest Jonathan Downey is a former corporate lawyer turned restaurateur and bar owner who is regarded as one of the most influential people in the hospitality industry in the capital. Jonathan has gone on to open 20 venues across the world, and is one of the minds behind the renowned Street Feast food market in East London. Since the government issued a 10pm curfew on bars and pubs across England, however, he has been forced to close the doors of his famous Milk and Honey London in Soho, one of the best-loved bars in the area after 18 years of business. He has been an advocate for keeping pubs and restaurants alive in London, as it was estimated that back in May more than 30,000 pubs and restaurants may remain permanently closed because of lockdown. Jonathan has also lobbied for a pause to rent payments to mitigate the losses caused due to this pandemic. Watch as we sit down with Jonathan Downey to discuss the curfew, rent and landlords, mass closures, the economy, and what’s next for the hospitality industry in London.

BUILD YOUR DREAM BUSINESS IN 8 WEEKS: <a href="https://londonreal.tv/biz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://londonreal.tv/biz/</a> 2021 SUMMIT TICKETS: <a href="https://londonreal.tv/summit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://londonreal.tv/summit/</a> NEW MASTERCLASS EACH WEEK: <a href="http://londonreal.tv/masterclass-yt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://londonreal.tv/masterclass-yt</a> LATEST EPISODE: <a href="https://londonreal.link/latest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://londonreal.link/latest</a> Jonathan Downey is a former corporate lawyer turned restaurateur and bar owner who is regarded as one of the most influential people in the hospitality industry in the capital. Jonathan has gone on to open 20 venues across the world, and is one of the minds behind the renowned Street Feast food market in East London. Since the government issued a 10pm curfew on bars and pubs across England, however, he has been forced to close the doors of his famous Milk and Honey London in Soho, one of the best-loved bars in the area after 18 years of business. He has been an advocate for keeping pubs and restaurants alive in London, as it was estimated that back in May more than 30,000 pubs and restaurants may remain permanently closed because of lockdown. Jonathan has also lobbied for a pause to rent payments to mitigate the losses caused due to this pandemic. Watch as we sit down with Jonathan Downey to discuss the curfew, rent and landlords, mass closures, the economy, and what’s next for the hospitality industry in London.

JONATHAN DOWNEY - THE END OF MILK AND HONEY: One Restauranteur’s Apocryphal Tale Of How Lockdown Killed His Business

Here I am with JD at his house in Dalston, catching up with him as he prepares to head off on a vision quest to work out what we do about all this f**kry. 

Here I am with JD at his house in Dalston, catching up with him as he prepares to head off on a vision quest to work out what we do about all this f**kry.

KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #2 (with Jonathan Downey of Hospitality Union)

Lots has changed since I last caught up with JD.  Hospitality Union has become more grown up from its early WhatsApp group days and now has a website, brand and a more disciplined and structured voice representing over 3000 independent hospitality owners and senior operators. Through Hospitality Union JD has been campaigning for a number of national support measures to help the sector navigate the pandemic, and fundamentally save as many jobs as possible.  Next to the JRS and furloughing scheme some sort of plan on rent is essential to save the industry and jobs.  #NationalTimeOut has gained national support from many leaders of the industry and some of our best and most famous chefs and operators. JD and I chat the latest development on this and his confidence that some sort of framework support will be agreed nationally soon. We also touch on more general structure and flexibility on our re-opening such as what happens with terraces and outdoor spaces and the debate on 2 metres to 0 metres and how sometimes less regulation and common sense is better than over-regulation. As always please head over to the website to support via our Patreon page.

Lots has changed since I last caught up with JD.  Hospitality Union has become more grown up from its early WhatsApp group days and now has a website, brand and a more disciplined and structured voice representing over 3000 independent hospitality owners and senior operators. Through Hospitality Union JD has been campaigning for a number of national support measures to help the sector navigate the pandemic, and fundamentally save as many jobs as possible.  Next to the JRS and furloughing scheme some sort of plan on rent is essential to save the industry and jobs.  #NationalTimeOut has gained national support from many leaders of the industry and some of our best and most famous chefs and operators. JD and I chat the latest development on this and his confidence that some sort of framework support will be agreed nationally soon. We also touch on more general structure and flexibility on our re-opening such as what happens with terraces and outdoor spaces and the debate on 2 metres to 0 metres and how sometimes less regulation and common sense is better than over-regulation. As always please head over to the website to support via our <a href="https://humansofhospitality.co.uk/donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> page.

#083 Jonathan Downey (JD) - Hospitality Union

In our second episode we take a wide lens view of the state of our industry by speaking with man on a mission, Jonathan Downey. ‘Powered by Whatsapp’, high def foresight and an unwavering capacity for getting things done, JD’s proposals to government could help save thousands of businesses.   For more information on JD’s  #NationalTimeOut and how to support it - even if you don’t own a food business but just cherish eating out - follow the hashtag, and follow @HospoUnion and @DowneyJD on Twitter as the campaign develops.   Hosted by KERB founder Petra Barran, with audio production from KERB stalwart Robin Leeburn of Fairly Media and music ℅ pioneer of the UK grime scene, Tottenham’s very own  Meridian Dan   To see what KERB and our traders are getting up to on the inside, head to our  Keep the Wheels Turning Campaign.

In our second episode we take a wide lens view of the state of our industry by speaking with man on a mission, Jonathan Downey. ‘Powered by Whatsapp’, high def foresight and an unwavering capacity for getting things done, JD’s proposals to government could help save thousands of businesses. For more information on JD’s <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nationaltimeout&amp;src=typed_query" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> #NationalTimeOut</a> and how to support it - even if you don’t own a food business but just cherish eating out - follow the hashtag, and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/HospoUnion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@HospoUnion</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DowneyJD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DowneyJD</a> on Twitter as the campaign develops. Hosted by KERB founder <a href="https://www.instagram.com/petrabarran/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Petra Barran</a>, with audio production from KERB stalwart Robin Leeburn of <a href="https://fairly.media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairly Media</a> and music ℅ pioneer of the UK grime scene, Tottenham’s very own <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5UhqlN0em1N4hDjegJD1Lg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Meridian Dan</a> To see what <a href="https://www.kerbfood.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KERB</a> and our traders are getting up to on the inside, head to our <a href="https://www.notion.so/196a9b78e9884da4976f37ae58182b3a?v=a9af233e7b0943d985a75effe9caf595" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Keep the Wheels Turning</a> Campaign.

“Get in the boat” - Hospitality Union rescue mission (with Jonathan Downey)

In this special edition podcast Michael interviewed Co-Founder and CEO of Street Feast; Jonathan Downey as our guest - we will be discussing how to navigate the storm during the Corona Virus. He will be giving great insights into where he sees the industry is right now, what you need to do as an operator to keep the doors open, what the government needs to do to keep one of the most important industries and biggest UK employers afloat, and what he is doing himself as a leader to keep head over water.JD was so kind as to offer people help via Twitter @DowneyJD or email him at jd@londonunion.com.Please share this podcast so other industry people can get JD's great insight and tips to help. If you would like more of this; please subscribe to one of our channels more episodes to come very soon.If you have not signed up to the newsletter, go to  https://www.experience101.live/ and sign up today.Thanks to our partners HGEM, Tahola and Vita Mojo for supporting us get this out to more movers, shakers and mavericks - together we can overcome this. With thanks to the amazing Scorzayzee for allowing the use of his tracks, “All in together” and "Heroes Never Die" (With Daudi Matsiko) taken from his album “Aeon: Peace To The Puzzle” is thoroughly apt for this time. Find him on social at @scorzayzee #restaurantbusiness #crisesmanagement #restaurantindustry #restaurantmanagement #hospitality #restaurant #hospitalityindustry #restaurants #restaurantowner #peoplefirst #people #hospitalitymanagement #business #leadership #EXP101 #CoronavirusThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacyChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

In this special edition podcast Michael interviewed Co-Founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.streetfeast.com/london-union" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Street Feast</a>; <a href="https://twitter.com/DowneyJD" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Downey</a> as our guest - we will be discussing how to navigate the storm during the Corona Virus. He will be giving great insights into where he sees the industry is right now, what you need to do as an operator to keep the doors open, what the government needs to do to keep one of the most important industries and biggest UK employers afloat, and what he is doing himself as a leader to keep head over water.JD was so kind as to offer people help via Twitter @DowneyJD or email him at <a href="mailto:jd@londonunion.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">jd@londonunion.com</a>.Please share this podcast so other industry people can get JD's great insight and tips to help. If you would like more of this; please subscribe to one of our channels more episodes to come very soon.If you have not signed up to the newsletter, go to  <a href="https://www.experience101.live/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.experience101.live/</a> and sign up today.Thanks to our partners <a href="https://www.hgem.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">HGEM</a>, <a href="https://tahola.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Tahola</a> and <a href="https://software.vitamojo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Vita Mojo</a> for supporting us get this out to more movers, shakers and mavericks - together we can overcome this. With thanks to the amazing Scorzayzee for allowing the use of his tracks, “All in together” and "Heroes Never Die" (With Daudi Matsiko) taken from his album “Aeon: Peace To The Puzzle” is thoroughly apt for this time. Find him on social at @scorzayzee <h1>#restaurantbusiness #crisesmanagement #restaurantindustry #restaurantmanagement #hospitality #restaurant #hospitalityindustry #restaurants #restaurantowner #peoplefirst #people #hospitalitymanagement #business #leadership #EXP101 #Coronavirus</h1>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - <a href="https://podcorn.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcorn.com/privacy</a> Chartable - <a href="https://chartable.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chartable.com/privacy</a>

Surviving The Shit Storm Episode 1 with Jonathan Downey, Co-Founder and CEO of Street Feast

MARK MCC (MARK MICK-SEE), SUPERSONIC INC I’m a rocket booster for your food, drink or hotel business. I will make a visible and commercial difference to your business across brand, marketing, digital, social and employee engagement. I have worked in Brand, Marketing, Digital, Social and Employee Engagement for over 20 years with companies such as lastminute.com, Barclaycard, YO! Sushi and Pret A Manger. I offer Strategy, Speaking, Workshops, Facilitation and Non Executive Director advice mainly for fast casual restaurants, fine dining restaurants, takeaway shops, coffee shops, delivery businesses, food and drink manufacturers, retail businesses, pubs, bars and hotels. Find out how I can help your brand BOOM at: https://supersonic-inc.squarespace.com/ Follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/supersonic_inc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supersonic_inc/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmcculloch/

MARK MCC (MARK MICK-SEE), SUPERSONIC INC I’m a rocket booster for your food, drink or hotel business. I will make a visible and commercial difference to your business across brand, marketing, digital, social and employee engagement. I have worked in Brand, Marketing, Digital, Social and Employee Engagement for over 20 years with companies such as <a href="http://lastminute.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lastminute.com</a>, Barclaycard, YO! Sushi and Pret A Manger. I offer Strategy, Speaking, Workshops, Facilitation and Non Executive Director advice mainly for fast casual restaurants, fine dining restaurants, takeaway shops, coffee shops, delivery businesses, food and drink manufacturers, retail businesses, pubs, bars and hotels. Find out how I can help your brand BOOM at: <a href="https://supersonic-inc.squarespace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://supersonic-inc.squarespace.com/</a> Follow me: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/supersonic_inc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/supersonic_inc</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/supersonic_inc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/supersonic_inc/</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmcculloch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmcculloch/</a>

Jonathan Downey, Owner of Milk & Honey Soho and Co-Founder of Street Feast

The world’s disused car parks, markets and office blocks need Jonathan Downey. In Street Feast he’s taken the idea of street food to a whole new level. At night, what were neglected sites come alive with tantalising smells of pizza, steamed buns, tacos and chicken wings ...along with the buzz of conversation and glowing light boxes of all shapes and sizes. JD's hospitality journey over 20 YEARS is exceptional. Match Bar, Sosho, Milk and Honey, Street Feasts, 2 million visitors a year, Dinerama, Giant Robot, Hawker House...hold on tight...it's quite the adventure! The four very different Street Feasts bring together speciality bars and food traders who each do just one thing, and do it really, really well... And it was because London in the 1990s wasn’t doing nightlife well, that Jonathan decided to combine his corporate lawyer role with a new career as a bar and club operator. It was a crazy thing to do – suited and booted by day, scrubbing walls by night – but it worked for a while.... until the inevitable ‘ouch’ moment arrived. But when that came, Jonathan freed himself up to work on more amazing hospitality ideas.

The world’s disused car parks, markets and office blocks need Jonathan Downey. In Street Feast he’s taken the idea of street food to a whole new level. At night, what were neglected sites come alive with tantalising smells of pizza, steamed buns, tacos and chicken wings ...along with the buzz of conversation and glowing light boxes of all shapes and sizes. JD's hospitality journey over 20 YEARS is exceptional. Match Bar, Sosho, Milk and Honey, Street Feasts, 2 million visitors a year, Dinerama, Giant Robot, Hawker House...hold on tight...it's quite the adventure! The four very different Street Feasts bring together speciality bars and food traders who each do just one thing, and do it really, really well... And it was because London in the 1990s wasn’t doing nightlife well, that Jonathan decided to combine his corporate lawyer role with a new career as a bar and club operator. It was a crazy thing to do – suited and booted by day, scrubbing walls by night – but it worked for a while.... until the inevitable ‘ouch’ moment arrived. But when that came, Jonathan freed himself up to work on more amazing hospitality ideas.

#022 Jonathan Downey - Street Feast

Jonathan Downey is the Founder &amp; CEO @ Airware, the startup that allows you to make better-informed decisions with aerial date, captured by drones. They have raised over $65m in VC funding from some of the very best in the industry including a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures just to name a few. Jonathan is also the General Partner @ Commerical Drone Fund, making $250K-$1m investments in early stage companies in the commercial drone space. Prior to Airware, Jonathan was a commercial pilot and a flight controls engineer @ Boeing.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jonathan made the move from commercial pilot to startup founder with one of the hottest drone startups, Airware? 2.) What has been the catalyst for the rising belief in the potential for drones? What has changed about the landscape to make them now not only a commercially viable opportunity but also consumer viable? 3.) How does Jonathan view the commercial landscape today? Where does Jonathan see the highest potential for the commercial application of drones? How does one approach go to market strategy and business model in a completely undefined landscape? 4.) What are the current barriers to adoption for corporations with drones? What does it mean and entail for an organization to adopt drones in terms of new workflows and training? What are the key transformative technologies that will enable new applications and market expansion? 5.) With incumbents now heavily investing in the space, does Jonathan believe this will be a market of disruption or consolidation and acquisition by the exisiting incumbents? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jonathan’s Fave Book: Elon Musk by Ashley Vance Jonathan’s Fave Blog: Chris Dixon As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Jonathan on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Eight is a sleep innovation company. With their latest product, the Eight Smart Mattress, being a bed that literally tells you how well you slept last night, paired with an intelligent sensor cover that measures the quality of your sleep and delivers a daily sleep report. In order to bring you the best product, Eight used anonymized sleep data and feedback from over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep resulting in their unique blend of four responsive and high-density foam layers plus one layer of proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep. You can check it out on Eightsleep.com – and if you use the code 20VC you will get a whopping 20% discount! FullContact provides the ability to organize your contacts, gain rich insights into them and therefore build deep relationships. With features like automatically identifying and merging duplicate contacts to the ability to snap a photo of a business card and FullContact will transcribe them for you, so no more lost and loose business cards at events. It is with these features just being the tip of the iceberg, FullContact really is the best all in one solution for contact management and you can check them out on fullcontact.com.

<a href="https://twitter.com/jbdowney83" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Downey</a> is the Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="http://www.airware.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Airware</a>, the startup that allows you to make better-informed decisions with aerial date, captured by drones. They have raised over $65m in VC funding from some of the very best in the industry including a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures just to name a few. Jonathan is also the General Partner @ Commerical Drone Fund, making $250K-$1m investments in early stage companies in the commercial drone space. Prior to Airware, Jonathan was a commercial pilot and a flight controls engineer @ Boeing. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jonathan made the move from commercial pilot to startup founder with one of the hottest drone startups, Airware? 2.) What has been the catalyst for the rising belief in the potential for drones? What has changed about the landscape to make them now not only a commercially viable opportunity but also consumer viable? 3.) How does Jonathan view the commercial landscape today? Where does Jonathan see the highest potential for the commercial application of drones? How does one approach go to market strategy and business model in a completely undefined landscape? 4.) What are the current barriers to adoption for corporations with drones? What does it mean and entail for an organization to adopt drones in terms of new workflows and training? What are the key transformative technologies that will enable new applications and market expansion? 5.) With incumbents now heavily investing in the space, does Jonathan believe this will be a market of disruption or consolidation and acquisition by the exisiting incumbents? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jonathan’s Fave Book: <a href="http://amzn.to/2qeyYYk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elon Musk by Ashley Vance</a> Jonathan’s Fave Blog: <a href="http://cdixon.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Dixon</a> As always you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/twentyminutevc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Twenty Minute VC</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jbdowney83" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan</a> on Twitter here! <a href="https://www.snapchat.com/add/hstebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.</a> <a href="https://eightsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eight</a> is a sleep innovation company. With their latest product, the Eight Smart Mattress, being a bed that literally tells you how well you slept last night, paired with an intelligent sensor cover that measures the quality of your sleep and delivers a daily sleep report. In order to bring you the best product, Eight used anonymized sleep data and feedback from over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep resulting in their unique blend of four responsive and high-density foam layers plus one layer of proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep. You can check it out on <a href="https://eightsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eightsleep.com</a> – and if you use the code 20VC you will get a whopping 20% discount! <a href="https://www.fullcontact.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FullContact</a> provides the ability to organize your contacts, gain rich insights into them and therefore build deep relationships. With features like automatically identifying and merging duplicate contacts to the ability to snap a photo of a business card and FullContact will transcribe them for you, so no more lost and loose business cards at events. It is with these features just being the tip of the iceberg, FullContact really is the best all in one solution for contact management and you can check them out on <a href="https://www.fullcontact.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fullcontact.com.</a>