Food business: Bigger fish to fry

Online sales have risen in the past year for Stefan Griesbach, the Galway fishmonger, but he is planning to net yet more business

Stefan Griesbach, owner of Gannet Fishmongers: ‘I want to work with customers who cook, not just heat things up.’ Picture: Declan Colohan

“We’re going to have the best fish shop in Ireland in six months,” Stefan Griesbach of Gannet Fishmongers tells me down the phone in his thick and fast Paris-meets-the-Atlantic accent.

He’s driving home from another long day at Gannet HQ, his east Galway “fish factory”, retail shop and processing hub for his nationwide online retail business, but he’s as cheerful, straight-talking and generous with his time and knowledge as ever.

An hour later he texts ...