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

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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.

https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/peter-hannan-meat-merchant

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

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