Chris Quinn

Hello, and welcome to the Beer Temple Podcast.

I'm your co-host, Mike Schlau, of Is Was Brewing, and I'm here with your other co-host, Chris Quinn of the Beer Temple.

Chris, how are you?

What up? It's your boy.

What's up? What up? It's your boy.

This is Jeopardy from Chicago, Illinois.

It's a publican and liquor store owner.

Chris Quinn.

So... you know, it's, uh, you know, people, people have their ups and downs with Quinn, I think, and his broadcasting, but we're big fans over here at setting the pace.

I love hearing Quinn and Chris on the call.

They do a great job.

Jeremiah Johnson as well.

Preseason can't come soon enough.

I'm ready for it.

Uh, but yeah, in terms of, uh, Chris Quinn, JJ.

I mean, those are,

National's plan to slice up foodstuffs has sparked outrage from close to 500 owner-operators, though, concerned about the costs and practicalities of the plan and the risks to smaller communities.

Foodstuffs North Island Chief Executive Chris Quinn says it won't make food cheaper.

The busting up of a New Zealand business that's family owned in 530 franchises, as far as we can see, adds cost.

It absolutely has no guarantee of reducing price.

So you've got about 50 business leaders all signing an open letter with the same sentiment, governments stay out of business.

Nick Mowbray, Antonia Watson, Chris Quinn, you name it, they're all on there.

Things are basic, you would have thought.

Protect private property rights, freedom of contract, lawful agreements shouldn't be rewritten to suit election promises.

So Labour, as you could expect, of course, we had Foodstuffs come out today with some thoughts, mainly that they wanted to understand the Labour policy more, what the party's actually suggesting.

Chris Quinn, the chief executive of Foodstuffs North Island, said on Midday Report he called it operational separation.

So some thoughts.

form of further regulation to make wholesale supply available to the whole of the market.

But then again, lettuce, broccoli, eggs, butter, they're all falling in price.

Anyway, Chris Quinn, Foodstuff's New Zealand Managing Director, is back with us.

Chris, very good morning to you.

Good morning, Mike.

It's amazing times, aren't you?

Appreciate it.

Chris Quinn, who is the Foodstuffs New Zealand Managing Director.

I talk to a number of people.

And I-

... to, uh, Chris Quinn, Atassi, and, uh-

Yeah.

And I listen to it almost every day because it is one of the few local news-