Restaurants Quotes - Page 26

• I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Country, Years, Different

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• I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

  Jose Andres

  Thinking, Should Have, Food Trucks

  "José Andrés Unveils New Food Truck Pepe" by Rachel Tepper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”

  Gene Veith

  Men, Giving, Bread

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• In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

  Alex Cox

  Kitchen, Cameras, Genius

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Believe, Lap

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• Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Air, Leaving, Bars

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• Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

  David Soul

  Struggle, Night, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

  Mark Sisson

  Giving Up, Health, Inspire

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• Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Party, Gossip, Filters

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• I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Views, Years

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• Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.

  Amos Oz

  Wall, Doors, Mouths

  Amos Oz (1999). “The Story Begins: Essays on Literature”, Harcourt

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• Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Feet, Listening

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• Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

  Thomas Keller

  People, Important, Together

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• I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

  Michael Jordan

  Kids, Shoes, White

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

  Chet Baker

  Art, Europe, America

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• Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Belief, Liquor, Sells

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

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• In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

  John Hickenlooper

  Giving, Judging, Enemy

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• It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

  Jason Alexander

  Chinese, Shrimp, Torah

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• Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

  Joe Bastianich

  Math, Thinking, People

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Horse, Men

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• It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Years, Havens, Hard

  "Gordon Ramsay: 'I was a crazy psycho'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• You're not even in a restaurant, but... you got served!

  Santino Marella

  Wwe

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• My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

  Jesse McCartney

  Mother, Dad, Dine In

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