EE485 - Mentor Moment: Lorraine Heskin - Building Gourmet Food Parlour in the Celtic Tiger

In this Mentor Moment, Lorraine Heskin — founder of Gourmet Food Parlour — takes us back to 2006, right in the heart of the Celtic Tiger, when she made the leap from a stable job into the unknown to build her own café brand. Lorraine shares how she approached brand-building from day one, why finding a location was the hardest part (and why she refused to pay key money), and the magic of opening the doors to a queue down the street — proving the idea wasn’t just in her head, the community wanted it. For the full conversation with Lorraine and the full Gourmet Food Parlour origin story, listen to Episode 423 of The Entrepreneur Experiment. Nostra: Azure: Rory’s Travel Club: Chartered Capital:

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EE485 - Mentor Moment: Lorraine Heskin - Building Gourmet Food Parlour in the Celtic Tiger is an episode from The Entrepreneur Experiment by Gary Fox.

This episode is 7:36 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2026.

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