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Just Eat: How David Buttress Co-Founded and Built a £5.5bn Company

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How to Start a Restaurant Business?

We met in Nando's in Hammersmith in the summer of 2005. He was running the restaurant business for Coca-Cola in Denmark. And he said, would you mind giving him 30 minutes of your time? I always thought it was always good if you can't help people. We ended up going to a pub and then all the best ideas obviously start from finishing pubs. So, some of them go home that night saying, I want to start this business called Just Eat. It went from there. The first month we turned over 36 pounds,. so we had 18 quid between the two of us - which we spent in all bar one in Canary Wharf. Both of us

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