{"id":43440,"date":"2014-09-11T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=43440"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:27:19","slug":"ed-brown-griff-holland-friska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/ed-brown-griff-holland-friska\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Brown and Griff Holland: Friska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ed Brown and Griff Holland, 28 and 31<br> Company: <\/b>Friska<br> <b>Web: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friskafood.com\">www.friskafood.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most fast food restaurants found in UK towns and cities share a number of common traits; normally franchises owned by huge American multinationals, they emphasise speed of service and salty, fatty items over healthy options and ethical sourcing. Ed Brown and Griff Holland&rsquo;s Bristol-based start-up Friska has already taken impressive steps to confound these preconceptions, and is well on its way to becoming a genuine alternative to mainstays such as McDonalds. The restaurant offers healthy, ethically-sourced and seasonal food inspired by locations around the world, and a strong emphasis on ethics is at the core of everything the business does &ndash; every month, Friska fully funds an entrepreneur in a developing country through microfinance charity Deki. As well as the consumer-facing fast food side of the business, Friska also generates revenue through corporate catering, with clients now including KPMG, Ernst &amp; Young and Deloitte.<\/p>\n<p>All this has seen Friska grow by 135% in the last year, with a run rate of &pound;1.5m and a projected turnover of &pound;3.2m for 2014 &ndash; impressive financials for a business breaking into one of the most closed markets in the world. 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