The Business of Restaurants #4 - Richard Kennan of Ruibin Restaurant, Galway
The Business of RestaurantsShow Notes
Rúibín is a contemporary bar & restaurant located in Galway City on Ireland's Wild Atlantic way, the brainchild of couple Richard Kennan & Alice Jary. Their ethos is to cook & create using the best seasonal Irish produce they can find and pairing this with influence & inspiration from flavours around the world. The pair spent numerous years travelling and soaking up different cultures, before bringing this knowledge back home to Galway’s Historic Docklands. In this episode, I chat with Richard about his background growing up in hospitality, opening up his own restaurant Ruibin with his partner and chef Alice Jary, opening up with a very tight budget, the anger he felt when Covid hit in March 2020 and they were forced to close Ruibin and the future of his business.
More from The Business of Restaurants
In Episode 21 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with legendary chef Michael Bonacini.
In Episode 20 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with the co-owner of the well known Vancouver hotspot Jam Cafe. Mike has a long and successful career in the restaurant industry and before Jam cafe, was the director of operations of the Aburi restaurant group in Canada where he oversaw 4 restaurants, 400 staff and a yearly revenue of 20 million.
In Episode 19 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with the well known Irish business owner Brody Sweeney.
In Episode 18 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with legendary UK chef Phil Howard. Phil is a co-proprietor for the Michelin-starred Kitchen W8, The Ledbury (now closed), Church Road in Barnes and Union in La Plagne Montalbert, a ski resort and village in France. He also has interests in the London restaurants Lorne and Perilla, and is an investor in The Wild Room, which supplies foraged ingredients, mushrooms and truffles to the restaurant trade. In 2011, he picked up a Catey Award for Restaurateur of the Year (and rightly so!).
In Episode 17 of The Business of Restaurants Podcast, I chat with Will Beckett who is the founder and owner of The Hawksmoor Restaurant Group. There are 6 Hawksmoor restaurants in London, a location each in Edinburgh and Manchester and most recently the group opened a Hawksmoor in the heart of Gramercy in New York City. I chat with Will about his many 'failures' in the restaurant industry before the success of opening Hawksmoor, the challenges in the early days of Hawksmoor, the London restaurant scene, the dream of opening a Hawksmoor in New York, the main key to running a successful restaurant group, opening Hawksmoor Dublin and much much more!