About this Episode
Around three years ago, I took my family to a Jamie’s restaurant for a celebration meal. The meal itself was unremarkable, the food was nothing special. The only element that we remembered was that we paid £12 for 8 strips of anchovy. Our expectation was for a great experience with simple, but delicious food. The deliverable was unremarkable food at an inflated price. We never returned.
This week, I was surprised to read newspaper reports that Jamie Oliver claiming that the reason why the Jamie chain of restaurants failed, was all down to Brexit. Whilst there may be some small element relating to the on-off Brexit dates, the main reason in my mind is that the deliverables were not matched by the expectation and thus customers perceived the restaurants as poor value.
 The Jamie’s restaurant chain failure blamed on Brexit, follows a series of stories in the media of how Brexit either; provides a world of opportunity or will instigate the destruction of our way of life. What the truth of the matter is will, or will not, be known at some time in the future.  
This leads into this podcast episode regarding the impact, or not, of Brexit on technology businesses given by Ian Fishwick. 
 




















Ian FishwickTranscription







Ian Fishwick
Commercial Director, Innopsis
Ian is the Commercial Director at Innopsis.
Ian has over 29 years experience as Managing Director or Chief Executive of various technology companies in the UK. Ian has also completed nearly 40 telecom mergers and acquisitions in his career.
In November 2016 Ian had the honour of being appointed to the Cabinet Office SME Panel.
In January 2019 Ian moved from Chief Executive Officer to Chairmain of AdEPT Technology Group plc.
Ian lives with his family in Tunbridge Wells
 



Intro: 
Around three years ago, I took my family to a Jamie’s restaurant for a celebration meal. The meal itself was unremarkable, the food was nothing special. The only element that we remembered was that we paid £12 for 8 strips of anchovy. Our expectation was for a great experience with simple, but delicious food. The deliverable was unremarkable food at an inflated price. We never returned.
This week, I was surprised to hear that Jamie Oliver claiming that the reason why the Jamie chain of restaurants failed was all down to Brexit. Whilst there may be some small element relating to the on-off Brexit dates, the main reason in my mind is that the deliverables were not matched by the expectation and thus customers perceived the restaurants as poor value.
The Jamie’s restaurant chain failure blamed on Brexit follows as series of stories in the media of how Brexit either provides a world of opportunity or will provide the destruction of our way of life. What the truth of the matter is, will or will not be known in the future.  This leads into this podcast episode regarding the impact, or not, of Brexit on technology businesses given by Ian Fishwick. 
Ian:
I was recently asked to give a speech at Child & Co Bank,