GrubClub - Expert Impact

Olivia Sibony,

Grub Club

Met with Chris Gorell Barnes

Grub Club is an online platform for dining experiences.

Discover hundreds of nights of hidden dining in spaces you never knew existed from Disused Underground Carriages to Museums to London Landmarks.

In today’s dining scene of exclusivity; at Grub Club we eat with inclusivity. All our dinners are communal so that you can enjoy innovative cuisines from Michelin trained chefs while meeting new people.

Grub Club is here to transform neighbourhoods and build food communites through support of local chefs, venues and customers. It’s a mindset we brought home from our travels, and hope will spread back out across the world

Olivia (Liv) Sibony is the co-founder of Grub Club. She set this up in January 2013 with her business partner Siddarth (Sid) Vijayakumar.

Liv’s background is primarily Human Resources – in the Public, Private and Third Sector – but she’s also worked a number of years in the catering industry, in kitchens serving anywhere between 10 and 200 covers. With food and people as her true passion, setting up Grub Club felt like the perfect way to combine the two and share her passion with the wider public.

Olivia tells us what Grub Club does and where they’ll be in five years time, in this short video.

Olivia shares her top tip for other entrepreneurs after her meeting with Chris in this short video clip.

Chris was incredibly welcoming and approachable yet focused and professional. He was able to zone in on key elements of my business that needed refining, to help define the long term strategy. His experience and insight were invaluable and gave me clear ideas of actionable next steps to define where the business could go next.”

Olivia Sibony, Co-Founder of Grub Club

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