Porter & Nash keep their gravy boat afloat
Updated / Friday, 26 Feb 2021
14:04
Journalist
Boost My Business throws a spotlight on an Irish gravy company who are scaling as fast as Covid will allow.
Fiona Alston caught up with Porter & Nash co-founder Gavin Cassidy to find out how they have been keeping their gravy boat afloat during the pandemic.
Gavin Cassidy returned to college as a mature student to upskill after 32 years in the catering industry. There he met his co-founder Eoin Lennon, who had also been working as a chef for 20 years in the upmarket restaurant sector.
As part of their Culinary Arts degree, they were tasked with product development and despite being in different groups they had a mutual bond over the potential of gravy.
IT IS no secret that ‘Gourmet Bros’ located on Townhall Street, Enniskillen, has gone from strength-to-strength since opening its doors for the very first time back in late November.
While the outbreak of Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on Fermanagh’s hospitality sector in recent months, Gavin and Nicky Cassidy took an innovative stop forward to ‘move with the times’ and haven’t looked back since.
Speaking to the Herald, company director, Gavin Cassidy explained, “We had the idea for a long time and felt like there was a niche in the market for nice, fresh, quality meals and we just went for it and thankfully it’s been growing from strength-to-strength since we opened.