
Passionate about driving positive change in the food industry
Founders
Founder of Tried & Supplied
Domini Hogg
Domini formed Tried & Supplied out of a passion for better ecology, along with the simple idea of making it easier for restaurants and hotels to work with smaller, local suppliers and purchase food and drink more sustainably. Alongside a team of developers, marketing and sales experts and backed by years of experience in B2B software and hospitality, Domini launched Tried & Supplied in 2021 with a starting base of more than 500 suppliers, and also launched the Better Hospitality Conference in the same year, bringing together more than 60 speakers from across the food industry for two days of virtual talks and workshops.
Founder of Saucy Dressings
Clare Hogg
Clare is the mind behind Tried & Supplied’s sister platform Saucy Dressings, a fun and opinionated look at the world of food and hospitality. An experienced marketing director, she created the platform out of a lifelong fascination with food and drink and a desire to talk to interesting and eclectic people from all areas of the industry, from chefs and bartenders to farmers, cheesemakers, vodka distillers and more. Saucy Dressings has since become a respected and far-reaching platform that also includes food masterclasses and an e-commerce platform selling meal kits, cookbooks, great produce and prints of Saucy Dressings’ famous mascot, the vegetable lady, Letitia.
We’re on a mission…

Our inspiration from nature
Millions of years ago, plants and trees didn’t have any roots. They traded sugars generated through photosynthesis in exchange for nutrients foraged by an underground network of fungus. They still rely on this network today: it’s called mycelium, also dubbed the ‘wood-wide web’ due to its ability to connect plants and trees together. Plants use the web to talk to each other, collaborate, and share resources. Tried & Supplied’s model is inspired by this natural ecosystem, using mycelium’s lessons as a basis by which to improve communication, collaboration, resources and information sharing across our network of suppliers and venues.
