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Episode 45 – Your Leadership Superpower with Brian Duncan



Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Podcast! It is the cure for the common restaurant! This is episode 45 and today I am joined by my good friend, restaurateur, and wine god…and also the happiest man I know: Brian Duncan.

But before we jump into the conversation let’s talk about potential…your potential. The number one thing that will change your restaurant, change your life, change your money, change your relationships is you must raise your standards. Your restaurant and your life right now is a reflection of what you tolerate. Are you happy with that? If yes, that’s great! If your are not, you have to raise your standards and keep them up there. We all start out when we open our restaurant with high standards and as we get beat down from life and negative energy vampires we slow start to lower our standards until we lose who we are and what we stand for. We compromised and sold out. Well, it’s time to take it back. Time to get the restaurant and life you know you are capable of. Time to turn all those things you know you should do into a must do. You know what I’m talking about: you should workout, you should eat better, you should get more sleep, you should cost out your menu, you should fire that low performer on your team. You should and should and should all over yourself every single day. It’s time to stop shoulding and start doing.

You know that you should work on your business instead of in your business. So, how exactly do you do that? It starts with a conversation. Go to my website www.therestaurantcoach.com and schedule a call with me personally. We’ll discuss where your restaurant is now, where you want to be in the next 90-days, and I’ll give you a crystal clear plan to get it. You just need to take a little action and schedule a call. Now, let’s jump into my conversation with Brian Duncan and what is your superpower to getting the restaurant you want!


Episode 31 – Being a Positive Force with Brian Duncan



Welcome to The Restaurant Coach™ Podcast it is the cure for the common restaurant. Today my guest is noted wine expert and founder of the icon Chicago restaurant Bin 36, Brian Duncan. Brian has agreed to take on the list of questions for season two sent in by listeners like you…what I call is the Dirty Dozen.

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Website: Go Wine

In closing…

This is how culture works. It starts at the top and flows down.

The choke hold on any restaurant is the mindset of the owner and operators. You are your problems and you are your solution. You can get out of this by making a shift in your mindset. How can you do that? Get a coach or mentor to help you see through the story you keep telling yourself why you cannot have the restaurant you want. It’s not your staff. It’s not the economy. A lot of restaurants are recording record sales and profits this year. If your restaurant or life is not 100% the way you want it then you have to come to terms that It’s you.

You must breakup with the story and marry the truth. The truth will indeed set you free, after it first will really piss you off. If your restaurant is running you, then today is your day to do something about it. Taking control will not be easy when you’ve allowed it to get away from you. It will resist and push back. You will want to give in and go back to the easier way, don’t.

Anything worth fighting for is worth the struggle and discomfort. The most successful restaurant operators are comfortable with being uncomfortable. Tony Robbins says it best, “The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably deal with.”

If you are looking for more tools to take your restaurant to the next level, go and stop by The Restaurant Coach™ Website. Sign up for my FREE 4-Part Course called The Restaurant Success Series. Yes, you heard correct, it’s FREE. I really want to help you get the restaurant you want. The course shows you four keys it takes to run a successful restaurant. If you want more intense results then go to the top of my website and click on the button that says Become A Client. You can fill out a short questionnaire and then you and I will schedule a 1 hour strategic planning session to get you clarity and some real solutions to get the restaurant and life you want. Stop beating your head against the wall in frustration, remember that true insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. Visit The Restaurant Coach.com today.

If you have not picked up a copy of my book Your Restaurant Sucks! Embrace the suck. Unleash your restaurant. Become outstanding on Amazon… When would NOW be a good time. There is also little known deal that you can pick up the paperback edition you also get the Kindle edition for FREE! I love to hear from listeners on topics or questions you would like to have my guests on this show answer, so email me at donald@therestaurantcoach.com

 


Episode 23 – Wine, Culture and the State of the Restaurant Industry with Brian Duncan



Welcome to The Restaurant Coach™ Podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. This is episode number 23. This episode was taken from Facebook show. I do apologize for some of the tech issues, however the information from my guest was too good not to share.

Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Facebook LIVE Talk Show. I am your host Donald Burns and this show is one I do weekly to bring you industry insights and solutions to help you get the restaurant you want. Tonight’s guest is an icon in the Chicago restaurant world. It’s with great pleasure that I welcome the founder of Bin 36 and the owner of Down to Earth Wine Concepts, my good friend Brian Duncan to the show.

Link:

Go Wine

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