Real restaurant industry insights from operators with over 40 years of experience. We help franchise owners and restaurant managers build better businesses through proven strategies and honest conversations. Welcome to Pillar Mindset!
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Signup to Generate a PitchReal restaurant industry insights from operators with over 40 years of experience. We help franchise owners and restaurant managers build better businesses through proven strategies and honest conversations. Welcome to Pillar Mindset!
Recent episodes include "Chili's is Winning While Others Struggle" (24 September 2026, 38 minutes), "Concessions Are Not Restaurants! Here's What We've Learned" (10 September 2026, 26 minutes), and "They Give You Free Tech. They Take Your Data" (26 August 2026, 56 minutes).
Pillar Mindset publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Pillar Mindset is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pillar Mindset requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pillar Mindset's contact route on record: public web form.
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Pillar Mindset is a business podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Episode #12
Texas has seen over a thousand restaurant closures in just the first half of the year. What's really driving that? In this episode of Pillar Mindset, Bob Lozano and John Zertuche trace it all back to COVID-era...
Concessions is a whole different beast. It's not a restaurant, it's a very raw form of hospitality where you've got 30 to 40 seconds to make an impact on a customer you'll probably never see again. In this episode of...
Episode #10
We didn't set out to build 13 companies. We were just selling burgers and ice cream. In this episode of Pillar Mindset, Bob Lozano and John Zertuche break down the full origin story of F&P Group — from being "the DQ...
Episode #9
Most evaluations are built wrong. Here's what to do instead. In this episode of Pillar Mindset, Bob Lozano and John Zertuche tear apart everything you thought you knew about team evaluations — and rebuild it from...
Forget what you've been told about AI. Since 2023, over 71,000 jobs have been publicly attributed to companies firing people to replace them with AI. Amazon. Microsoft. Salesforce. IBM. Duolingo. HP. Accenture. Most of...
Bob's back — and the industry just proved him right. Pizza Hut sold for $2.7 billion. We saw it coming. #PillarMindset #RestaurantBusiness #QSR #RestaurantIndustry #Franchising #FoodAndPeople #RestaurantOperator...
Most people think buying a franchise guarantees success. They're wrong — and two operators who've lived both sides of the coin are here to prove it. #PillarMindset #FranchisingTruth #RestaurantBusiness #Franchising...
#PillarMindset #RestaurantBusiness #TexasRestaurantAssociation In this episode of Pillar Mindset, Bob, Marcus, and John go deeper on the TRA conversation. We cover hospitality as a superpower, COVID's impact on the...
Episode #4
Running a family restaurant business is one of the hardest things you can do. Most fail within the first generation. The ones that survive? They have pillars, not just plans. In this episode of Life Currency, I break...
Episode #3
We spent over $6,000 on sealed Burger King Pokémon Gold Card boxes from 1999. Midlife crisis or genius QSR move? This is about pop culture as a business multiplier: how scarcity, nostalgia, and cultural relevance drive...
Episode #2
Think you can handle a food truck? Most operators can't. The "easy entry" narrative is BS... food trucks are harder than brick & mortar, require better skills, and crush 60% of owners in year one. In this episode of...
Episode #1
Is pizza really dead? The Wall Street Journal seems to think so, but I'm here to tell you why they got it completely wrong In this inaugural episode of Pillar Mindset, I break down the recent WSJ article claiming pizza...
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