Andy Noonan is festival director, curator and owner of Big Grill, Me Auld Flower and Baste (soon to be Scorchio).

He started out life in events as a DJ and nightclub promoter at the age of 16. Since then he has successfully organised Europe's Biggest BBQ & Food Festival, Big Grill, Baste a BBQ catering & events company 

In this episode, we explore a huge variety of topics including:

• The complete guide to developing a festival
• The harsh reality of why most food businesses flop
• Is it possible to make a food business profitable in 2023?
• How Irish people's culinary tastes have changed
• Why Covid altered peoples festival going behaviour
• The cult of the BBQ & why he believes it's an emerging trend
• Why you must give people an Instagram-worthy experience now

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