Ball pits and Start ups with Travis Fish, Group Development Director at Ballie Ballerson
Tech on Toast, The Hospitality Tech Podcast
English - September 13, 2023 00:08 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBEntrepreneurship Business Marketing small business entrepreneur founder story leadership hospitality retail marketing inspiration mentor Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week Chris talks to Travis Fish, Group Development Director at Ballie Ballerson.
Ballie began as a “one month only” pop up in Dalston in November 2016, the inspiration of our founder, Wenny. The blend of cool cocktails and childhood nostalgia was such a hit that we extended our residency until the summer of 2017. National press and media outlets acclaimed us as one of the best places to go in London and over 150,000 happy nostalgia-seekers sampled our ball pits and signature drinks menu.
A month after that, our new permanent venue opened in Shoreditch. Ten times bigger and filled with just over a million balls, once again Ballie Ballerson was on everybody’s “must-do” list. Since then, a ridiculous 25,000 ballers a month have come to celebrate with us and that number continues to grow as we see our Edinburgh venue, the first branch outside of London, come into play too. Keep your eyes peeled because we're definitely not stopping there...
We had a great chat at Brewdog Waterloo and discussed the following ,
Travis career to date and his journey to Ballie!
What actually is Ballie Ballerson?
Working on both sides of the fence, technology and hospitality and the learnings from both through his early career at Nandos & Rota Geek.
His love of "tinkering" and supporting start up cultures
Advice around starting up your own business from his own experience at BaBa Boom.
The growth plans as Ballie starts to roll out, in particular thier first site in Wales!!
And much more.......
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