Build A Better Restaurant with Peter Harman

Build A Better Restaurant with Peter Harman

My goal is to help you Build a Better Restaurant by focusing on Eight Basic Fundamentals that lead to a better life and financial freedom. Each week I will share valuable ideas and insights that'll help you grow as a business person and a leader.

Episodes

358. Your Box

October 13, 2025 • 8 mins
Restaurant-ing can be a VERY complicated matter… Today I am going to tell you a story… actually this will be more like an ALLEGORY… My objective is to simplify – the idea of how a restaurant works – and your role in it…
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357. The World is a Tough Place

October 6, 2025 • 19 mins
The World can be a tough – mean – ruthless – unforgiving place… People want to tear you down. They want to destroy your ideas and beliefs especially if your ideas are new or radically different than the norm - different than the common – accepted rules of thought and behavior – that they believe.
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356. Enjoy, Don't Destroy

September 29, 2025 • 9 mins
The Greek Philosopher Seneca said "ENDLESS PLEASURE BECOMES IT’S OWN FORM OF PUNISHMENT"
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355. Problems & Opportunities

September 22, 2025 • 7 mins
If I could only do ONE Pep Talk for the rest of my Life this would be it..! Today’s message is SIMPLE and VERY Straight Forward… So Listen Up..!
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354. Focus on the Positive

September 15, 2025 • 15 mins
All great restaurants are similar in many ways, they have a winning formula - a winning recipe that makes them Thrive… All BAD restaurants are BAD in thousands of different ways… Today we are going to discuss several different ideas that I have been thinking about this week With the key idea of – Focus-ing on the POSITIVE…
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353. The Path to Greatness

September 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Why is the owner of the restaurant… standing in the dumpster… Talking on his cell phone..?
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352. Financial Freedom

September 1, 2025 • 18 mins
Financial Freedom is about having control over your finances and the choices you make. Financial freedom means you have enough income, savings, and investments to live life the way you desire without relying on a traditional job. Financial freedom is a general state of mind. It means you can pay for your life with little or no worry. You get to a point - where you feel secure – You know you can cover everything comfortably and...
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351. Change Your Mind Change Your Life_mixdown

August 25, 2025 • 23 mins
My goal with today’s podcast is to change you, my goal is for you to be a different person - at the end of this pep talk… than you are right now…
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350. Restaurants and Bicycle Wheels

August 18, 2025 • 16 mins
A restaurant is a precision machine… every part must work in tandem. Imagine a bicycle wheel – if any part of that wheel is out of whack… The ride will not be smooth…
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349. Maturity

August 11, 2025 • 16 mins
This summer I have spent a LOT of time – interviewing and training staff… Today I want to share the BIG things I have learned…
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348. Pyramids

August 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Today we are going to talk about pyramids, not the Egyptian pyramids or pyramid schemes But the triangle shaped object and the difference between the bottom and the top of a pyramid
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347. Change

July 28, 2025 • 25 mins
YOU CAN’T GO BACK AND CHANGE THE PAST… BUT, YOU CAN – START NOW AND CHANGE THE FUTURE…
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346. Sales Must Be Greater Than Costs

July 21, 2025 • 11 mins
Today’s pep talk is for those of you who are struggling to make money in your restaurant.
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345. Be The Boss

July 14, 2025 • 9 mins
As the waiter looked out the back kitchen door, he turned to the sous chef and said where is the Chef going with that axe..?
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344. The Big Stuff

July 7, 2025 • 17 mins
Most people wake up in the morning… and begin their daily routine… They think about what they did yesterday… and what they’ll do today. They contemplate where they are in the world and - where they WISH they were in the world. They think about THE GAP that exists between reality and dreams. In that moment… we are either exhilarated… or dismayed.
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343. Grow Your Own Team

June 30, 2025 • 11 mins
If you need tomatoes – You have THREE Choices… Choice #1… You can BUY THEM - at the store or the Farmers Market Choice #2… You can buy a tomato plant – and plant it in your garden Choice #3… You Can start from scratch and “Grow Your Own” - from tomato seeds. I see hiring a staff and building a winning team – the same as planting tomatoes…
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342. The Path to Mastery

June 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Have you ever heard of beginners luck? You start out HOT – Life is GOOD… Everything is going GREAT… You can’t believe your LUCK… Then get crushed – in the vice grip of life..? This is what we are going to discuss today.
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341. Supply & Demand

June 16, 2025 • 20 mins
Does your restaurant have - TOO MANY customers - or not ENOUGH customers..? I have discovered that most restaurants – HAVE BOTH..! TOO MANY customers and NOT ENOUGH Customers And that’s what we are going to talk about today..!
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340. Keep The Customers You Have

June 9, 2025 • 29 mins
The older I get… The more I realize – the importance of the simple – Important Things The basic fundamentals… The bedrock of simplicity… 95% of restaurant owners are running around like a chickens with their heads cut off - And the top 5% are just chugging right along – executing the basics… At a very high level - Making LOTS of Money – Living the dream…
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339. Who Are You

June 2, 2025 • 24 mins
Carl Jung said The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. Whether you realize it or not The world will ask YOU this important question - many times - each and every day. And you will answer it every time it is asked – whether you realize it or not. Every person that you meet or come in contact with - In person, or on the phone or in cyberspace… via email or text or whatever… will directly ...
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