- Camden
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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
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
- Menu
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, I can't listen to the song after the video's done. Sometimes I'll hear a song that I've worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I'll have this visceral physical reaction.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020