Hello and welcome to What's The Story? Hash Brown Glory! with your hosts Tom Bower and Lee Harding.

This week, we're joined by Cassie Davison of Kith & Kiln and best selling author of 'Stand Out Hospitality'.

Cassie's work in the hospitality sector has given her some incredible insights and knowledge of how the industry works, so much so that she even wrote a book. A book, may we add, that mentions RKD! Winner winner chicken dinner.

Also, you can download it free here:

https://standouthospitality.scoreapp.com

We talk about the importance of experience, consistency, marketing and more in this great chat about our favourite thing, hospitality.

We also answer possibly one of the most vital questions ever, what's the most important thing in a kitchen?

You can find Cassie here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiedavison1/

You can find us here:

https://rustickitchendeli.com

As ever, thank you for listening and make sure to leave us a cheeky five star review!

Tom and Lee x

Hello! Welcome back to What’s The Story? Hash Brown Glory! With your hosts, Tom Bower and Lee Harding of The Rustic Kitchen & Deli!

It’s been a while since our last episode…

We do have an excuse.

Way back in 2025, RKD suffered a disastrous fire that destroyed a lot of the building, we were closed for months, but, we’re now back up and running and we’re delighted to welcome back the firefighters that attended!

We wanted to do something to show our gratitude, so we did the thing we do best. We created a dish.

After learning what their go to foods are, we created the THREE ZERO PAPA ONE. A stunning medley of poached eggs, roasted chorizo, toasted sourdough, Aleppo pepper flakes, avocado, spinach and cherry tomatoes with £2 from every dish going towards the firefighters charity.

So, this week we hosted the firefighters that helped save Rustic for a breakfast they’ll never forget, their very own THREE ZERO PAPA ONE. A few even got behind the mics and cameras and joined us to talk about how it went down when they got the call about RKD.

We also have news!

We entered into the Pie Awards and we won...well you’ll have to find out what we won by listening to the episode!

As ever, thank you for listening.

You can find out more about the firefighters charity by heading here:
https://www.firefighterscharity.org.uk

You can find RKD here:
https://rustickitchendeli.com

And as ever, thank you so much for tuning in!

Tom and Lee x

Hello and welcome to What's The Story? Hash Brown Glory?

We're your hosts, Tom Bower and Lee Harding and this week we're joined by Ole Ryan of St Martin's Coffee Roasters!

A lot has been going on at RKD in the last few weeks, from planning permission to the works actually commencing to rebuild our beloved cafe and deli. We share some updates about this but more importantly...

We share (with the help of our friend Ole), some INCREDIBLE news about the expansion of RKD into Loughborough!

We did a live podcast recording where our lovely customers and members of the audience could phone in, ask questions and find out exactly what we've been cooking up.

So, get your snacks and beverages ready, as we reveal all in this exclusive episode of the podcast!

Find St Martin's here:

https://www.stmartinscoffee.co.uk

Find us here:

https://rustickitchendeli.com

As ever, thank you for listening!