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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're celebrating our sixth year with my Fleetwood's, and in a restaurant, that's a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at the tops of tall buildings try to compete, but spinning around is no substitute for speeding along.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite restaurant in the Twin Cities is McDonalds. I order two cheeseburgers, two snack wraps with no sauce, two fish fillets with cheese and light tartar sauce, two large fries, two apple pies, and one large milkshake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
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- Nov 07, 2020