- Chef
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by total accident.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.
- Fast Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020