Paul Goodale

Paul Goodale is a restaurateur, designer and entrepreneur with 30 years of experience across the hospitality sector. Throughout his career, he has worked across a wide range of quality hospitality operations, from luxury hotels and private members’ clubs to gastro pubs and food courts, and has conceived and opened more than 70 individual concepts for leading names including Conran and Harrods. Paul became the youngest FTSE CEO in 2008 before joining Harrods as Director of Restaurants and Kitchens, where he oversaw the transformation of its hospitality offer. He is Founder and CEO of PizzaLuxe Group Ltd, which secured private equity funding in 2020 and operates across multiple sites in Leeds, Manchester and London. Paul also owns Epicurean Holdings, a consultancy that he founded in 2009, providing operational and design consultancy to clients including Harrods, Galeries Lafayette and Qatar National Museums Authority, with extensive experience across the Middle East. He previously co-fou