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Back of House Podcast #80 - Jasper Reid

Back of House Podcast #80 - Jasper Reid

by Hastings People

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What does it take to take a global hospitality brand into India and make it work?

In the latest Back of House podcast, Luke Butler and co-host Kathy Savill arej oined by Jasper Reid. 

Jasper, a corporate director turned hospitality builder, who helped scale global hospitality concepts in India shares his perspective on:

  • Building scale in a market that is vast, complex, and under-penetrated

  • The truth about unit economics, rent pressure, and why margins are so hard to protect

  • What franchises get right (and wrong) when they enter new markets

  • How Jasper’s team navigated COVID in India, and why that period changed everything

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