- Memory
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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
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The restaurant industry is brutal.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the restaurant and bar business, I followed a rule, which was that the places that I opened were places that I wanted to go to.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this terrific kid in Maine who saw all the waste generated by straws handed out in restaurants. So he made up these little pop-up cards and asked restaurant owners put them on the tables to explain why straws wouldn't be handed out unless requested. Of course, the restaurant owners couldn't resist a 9-year-old kid, and so it worked.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.
- Coordinate
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- Nov 07, 2020