Words matter. These are the best Restaurant Business Quotes from famous people such as Tom Douglas, Anthony Bourdain, Anne Burrell, Dominique Crenn, David Chang, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the restaurant business, there’s the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
In the restaurant business, if you break even, you’re lucky. It’s a really hard business, it’s a survival business.
My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn’t really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don’t know if I would have been a chef.
Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.
The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.
I don’t know nothing about the restaurant business, but I’ve been around a barber shop all my life. That’s where I used to get my dates in high school.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There’s always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers’ happiness. It’s the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don’t eat any junk food – they taught me to appreciate good food.
My mom, who’s been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there’s no margin in having enemies.
Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
I come from the restaurant business; you’re talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.
I grew up in the restaurant business, and that’s always something I wanted to do.
My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.
I love cooking. I’m in the restaurant business.
If you’re a person who says yes most of the time, you’ll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.
In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don’t take it personally when they call the theater and can’t get what they want.
