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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.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

Quotes by Adrian Lewis

I want to open a restaurant.

Quotes by Ad-Rock

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

Quotes by Abby Wambach

Business Quotes

I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

Quotes by Wolfgang Puck

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love.

Quotes by Triple H

There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads.

Quotes by Tom Douglas

I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do.

Quotes by Tom Douglas

Food Quotes

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.

Quotes by Tim Vine

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

Quotes by Thomas Keller

I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home.

Quotes by Thaksin Shinawatra

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

Quotes by Tamala Jones

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

Go Quotes

The first Chipotle was intended to be my source of funding for a full-scale restaurant, a means to an end. But it turned out to be more successful than I ever imagined.

Quotes by Steve Ells

The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title 'restaurateur' and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager.

Quotes by Steve Ells

When I started on the very first day with just one restaurant, we used to pick oregano off the stems and chop them. We still do that.

Quotes by Steve Ells

If a restaurant kitchen is your office, Nom is for you.

Quotes by Steve Chen

The typical jobs that a lower-skilled immigration worker might do might be construction work, it might be hospitality work, it might be restaurant work, or might be not working at all and just going onto the welfare system if there...

Quotes by Stephen Miller

Good Quotes

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Quotes by Solomon Burke

Other lines recall weekend gigs that doubled as practice for a bigger career, and a favorite steakhouse remembered fondly for staying open late. Continue with Business or Good.