Stefan White and his best mate Tom Renshaw were deadset on creating a snack business when they graduated from uni. Determined to turn their dreams into reality they'd pound the pavements in London each morning knocking on the doors of independent pubs.
Come the afternoon the friends spent their time ringing up pub groups, and by 3pm, start shifts working in bars as kitchen porters and bartenders until 2am. Stefan, 27, was earning £1300 a month, but with his rent at £1250, he knew he had to make it work, the Manchester Evening News.
Their breakthrough was with Stonegate Group, who put their flavoursome snacks into 300 of their pubs, which then landed them in other chains, growing from zero to 2,000 pubs in nine months. But disaster struck in March 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit locking down pubs, losing the duo 95 per cent of their revenue stream and forcing them to rethink their strategy.
