{"id":103192,"date":"2025-10-04T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103192\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:01:12","slug":"a-recipe-for-success-meet-the-louth-entrepreneur-who-grew-a-single-coffee-shop-into-a-rock-solid-food-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103192\/","title":{"rendered":"A recipe for success \u2013 Meet the Louth entrepreneur who grew a single coffee shop into a \u2018rock\u2019 solid food brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smell the coffee - Rocksalt founder Daniel McLoughlin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d9a1ebe5-905a-4795-9509-97e87157a6ce.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Smell the coffee &#8211; Rocksalt founder Daniel McLoughlin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cMy goal was to have my own business before 30, to gain all my experience in my 20s when I worked for the best of people, and to bring it back and make it my own,\u201d says Louth food entrepreneur Daniel McLoughlin, the founder of RockSalt, which opened its latest caf\u00e9 in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From starting out with one coffee shop in the seaside village of Blackrock, where he grew up, his business now comprises five outlets, off-site catering, and a range of healthy ready meals for sports teams and local supermarkets, employing over 100 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smell the coffee &#8211; Rocksalt founder Daniel McLoughlin \u201cMy goal was to have my own business before 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,22455],"class_list":{"0":"post-103192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-margaret-roddy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}