Restaurants Quotes

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

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.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.

What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name?

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

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

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.