Scran season 5: Scotland's National Chef Gary Maclean on why hospitality has to change

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Picture: Gary Maclean

In this episode of Scran Rosalind Erskine meets Gary Maclean, Scotland's National Chef, winner of Masterchef, owner of Creel Caught in Bonnie & Wild in the St James' Quarter in Edinburgh and lecturer at City of Glasgow College.

They talk about Gary's career to date, the life-changing experience of going to college, why he has only recently opened his own restaurant for the first time and why he thinks customers need to pay more for what they're consuming.

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