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Selling pizzas in lockdown to a thriving food business

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 for the sixth episode is Jake Bucknall, co-founder of pizza business 

Chef Jake started the company in South London in 2020 with his former tour guide friend Jacob as a dinner for 100 people.  

But then lockdown hit so they decided to sell pizzas outside Jacob's mum's house. The popularity was so great that they ran out of space and moved to a pop-up site. 

That has now been developed into a permanent pizzeria, alongside another bar, selling their pizzas in a central London pub and running four events a month.  

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Jake Bucknall: Selling pizzas in lockdown to thriving food business - Small Business Sessions podcast (S8E6)

Chef Jake started the company in 2020 with his former tour guide friend Jacob as a dinner for 100 people.  

Jake Bucknall: Selling pizzas in lockdown to a thriving food business - Small Business Sessions podcast (S8E6)

Hello, I’m a digital marketing agency founder and communications consultant in Cambridge.
After a decade in broadcast media producing radio and digital content with the BBC, ITV and Magic FM, and as a homepage editor for Yahoo and AOL, in 2008 I founded Sookio.
I built and scaled the agency through intense periods of change – pandemic, fire, recession, four premises, shift to hybrid working – and oversaw the delivery of targeted marketing campaigns for clients in education, science/tech, B2B and the public sector, reaching millions of people and increasing footfall, applicants, and revenue.
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Hello, I’m a digital marketing agency founder and communications consultant in Cambridge.
After a decade in broadcast media producing radio and digital content with the BBC, ITV and Magic FM, and as a homepage editor for Yahoo and AOL, in 2008 I founded Sookio.
I built and scaled the agency through intense periods of change – pandemic, fire, recession, four premises, shift to hybrid working – and oversaw the delivery of targeted marketing campaigns for clients in education, scie

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