Episode 4: Food Done Right - At Work

The major global tech companies have created their own food culture over the last decade, characterised as excessive and wasteful at times, but trail-blazing elsewhere. IRFU’s Performance Chef Maurice McGeehan explains more, before detailing the food needs of very different professionals – Irish rugby players. Tim Holmes then takes us behind the scenes of the veg garden tended by the team that bring us Guinness.

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