Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast · 2026-03-10 · 29 min
In this episode of Interlinks , I speak with Mike Pettit , Director of 360 Bia Óg , the Dungarvan-based business delivering fresh, sustainable school lunches to primary schools across the south and southeast of Ireland. At first glance, this is a conversation about school meals. But beneath that sits a much bigger business story: how a family-run food business identified a new opportunity emerging from public policy, moved quickly to seize it, and then built the operational capability required to deliver at scale. Mike explains how 360 Bia Óg saw the opening created by Ireland’s expanding hot school meals scheme and responded with a model built on fresh daily production, tightly controlled delivery windows, reusable packaging, and a highly disciplined approach to consistency. We discuss the realities of running a time-sensitive food operation where success depends not just on quality and nutrition, but on logistics, staffing, contingency planning, supplier relationships, and process design.
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