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

Best Of Belfast: Northern Ireland's #1 Interview Podcast

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/