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- Nov 07, 2020
Restaurant Quotes
Lessons served alongside the meal.
This page gathers reflections on restaurants as places of learning, including one venture that failed but taught more than any success could. Related reading is in Food.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite area of Milano is by the canons - I go to an authentic Italian restaurant around there on a Sunday for delicious food.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020