Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Restaurant. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Restaurant Quotes And Sayings by 78 Authors including David Chang,Mickey Gilley,Tom Douglas,Wolfgang Puck,Mack Brown for you to enjoy and share.
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it. -- David Chang
I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue. -- Mickey Gilley
We've become such a restaurant society. -- Tom Douglas
There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person. -- Wolfgang Puck
I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems. -- Mack Brown
When I'm on the road, restaurants are like gyms: I know where I want to be in each city. -- Triple H
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. -- Daniel Boulud
Pizza Hut, and then Pizza Express, before seeking sanctuary in the doorway of a Domino's Pizza. -- David Walliams
Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. -- Mickey Gilley
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service. -- David Ogilvy
You're not even in a restaurant, but ... you got served! -- Santino Marella
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. -- Mario Batali
I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants. -- Gloria Votsis
I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work. -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country. -- Alain Ducasse
The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. -- George Orwell
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America. -- Eddie Huang
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants. -- Emeril Lagasse
Every restaurant needs to have a point of view. -- Danny Meyer
If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant. -- Mickey Gilley
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent. -- Gordon Ramsay
There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. -- David Chang
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. -- Joe Bastianich
I don't like eating in restaurants. -- David Chang
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. -- Federico Fellini
Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. -- Marian Burros
I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. -- Wolfgang Puck
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant. -- Danny Meyer
... to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender". -- Phoebe Damrosch
Continental Baking Company, Ninth and Clinton Streets, -- Holly Metz
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham. -- Ruben Studdard
I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant. -- Abby Wambach
Little Caesar's Pizza, -- J.j. Dibenedetto
Sharp knives, of course, are the secret of a successful restaurant. -- George Orwell
I like to go out to different restaurants in New York. I'm a restaurant junkie. -- Amy Carlson
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food. -- Will Ferrell
A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service. -- Wolfgang Puck
department store, but because your body requires high-quality nutrients -- Maggie Fitzgerald
Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are. -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.' -- Bobby Flay
I was out of the restaurant business but I still had my appetite. I turned toward my future, mouth watering. -- Amy Poehler
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. -- Chris Pine
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food. -- Laurie Colwin
Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. -- Mark Hyman
The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business. -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. -- Dave Thomas
Where, incidentally, a holiday meal was not being served. My mother worked as a waitress at Palmer's Supper -- Larry Watson
In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. -- David Chang
You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious. And when you're standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into - the good restaurant or the awful one. -- Haruki Murakami
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. -- Rocco Dispirito
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day, -- Chuck Berry
[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living. -- Sally Stanford
I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air. -- Ruth Reichl
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. -- Bobby Flay
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. -- Anthony Bourdain
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. -- Thomas Keller
Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners. -- Nicole Mones
There is an army of waiters in this world. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. -- Robert Irvine
Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. -- Paul Prudhomme
When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser. -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
I love trying new restaurants. -- Dana Goodyear
The restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156) -- Jack Kerouac
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York ... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant. -- Alice Waters
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts. -- Joe Bastianich
I'm the Waiter, you know! -- P.l. Travers
Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business. -- Diane Mott Davidson
Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked. -- Joe Bastianich
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. -- Calvin Trillin
A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked. -- Danny Meyer
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. -- Paul Prudhomme
business of the house with guests. -- Lola Grace Stevens
My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons. -- Michael Caine
There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human. -- Michael Mina
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party. -- Joe Bastianich
Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves. -- Fran Lebowitz
The restaurant business is robust and successful precisely because individual restaurants are vulnerable and short-lived. Taleb wishes that society honoured ruined entrepreneurs as richly as it honours fallen soldiers. -- Matt Ridley
I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's also a buffet - with unlimited orange chicken from Panda Express, curly fries from Arby's, Hawaiian pizza from Sbarro, and Coke Zero. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures. -- Tyler Oakley
grilled out, Sam Adams in hand, in the -- Brian Mockenhaupt
Life is an restaurant, in the end you just pay the bill. -- Deyth Banger
I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. -- Ferran Adria
[On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is swallowed up and spat out as a franchise. Taco Bell. Benihana of Tokyo. Numero Uno Pizza. Pup 'N' Taco. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fast food sushi. Teriyaki Bowl. -- Anne Finger
What business would judged on the first week that it's in business? -- Nick Kroll
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. -- Eric Ripert
I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. -- Richard Greenberg
As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal. -- Justin Deeley
I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests. -- Michael Mina
I'm conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there's this really awesome restaurant I've been wanting to try out. -- Jessica Sorensen
When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it. -- Michael Mina
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. -- Michael Pollan
In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists ... -- Calvin Trillin
I love to visit the comic shops, and I don't want to call myself a 'foodie,' because that word is just stupid, but I love diner food, and I'm a hardcore fan of 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.' -- Brian Posehn
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. -- Charlie Trotter
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? -- Martin Scorsese
I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business. -- Bill Rancic
