The Food & Beverage Lifer Podcast: Recent Episodes
John Murray, III
Hello! My name is John Murray. I created the Food & Beverage Lifer Podcast to share some lessons and stories from my lifetime around the food, beverage, and specialty retail businesses. I am not a guru or know it all. I am just sharing my experience, and hoping people can learn from it and/or be entertained by it. Just real world info from someone who has done it.
I'm always learning too folks. In this episode I talk about my recent business closures, and knowing when time is up.
The mental battle and struggle of being in business is the main point of this episode. Lately twice I have seen people who are just done, and being done has a look of just being done.
This is a thought I have wanted to convey for a long time now. When opening a business, you need to ask this basic question. Who gives a $hit? If you're not doing anything special, you're done, now so more than ever.
In this episode, I discuss how a good, honest contractor is worth every penny. Hope you enjoy.
In this episode, we breakdown key points in a commercial lease negotiation as well as share the story of someone who knew exactly 0 trying to go into business. Hopefully by the end of this you will know more than 0.
If you are thinking about going into business, I explain some of the major types of businesses - franchise, independent, etc.
A quick background on why I went into business. Briefly paralleling the two lives, having a job versus being in your own business.