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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.

Quotes by Jeremy Miller

Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'

Quotes by Jenny Zhang

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.'

Quotes by Jennifer Grey

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.

Quotes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Quotes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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.

Quotes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

Quotes by Jamie Redknapp

I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

Quotes by Jacquelyn Jablonski

I know, whoever visits my restaurant, they have loved the food.

Quotes by Jacqueline Fernandez

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.

Quotes by Jack Dorsey

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

Quotes by Ingrid Bergman

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.

Quotes by Huma Qureshi

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.

Quotes by Hiro Murai

I have started my own restaurant.

Quotes by Hiten Tejwani

My idea of opening a restaurant was important. The whole point is that I couldn't have been totally dependent on acting for my income... even though I want to remain in the field of entertainment forever.

Quotes by Hiten Tejwani

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

Quotes by Heston Blumenthal

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

Quotes by Hilary Duff

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

Quotes by Herman Cain

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

Quotes by Helena Christensen

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

Quotes by Helen Hunt

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

Quotes by Gregory Corso

Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.

Quotes by Gregg Henry

I absolutely love the restaurant industry.

Quotes by Ginger Zee

If I go to a restaurant, or if I'm at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from 'Grease.'

Quotes by Frankie Avalon

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

Quotes by Ferran Adria

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.

Quotes by Ferran Adria

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

Quotes by Ferran Adria

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Quotes by Federico Fellini

In 'Purab Aur Paschim,' there's one of the nicer patriotic scenes which is patriotic without going jingoistic. There's a scene set in a rotating restaurant, where Pran, who has left India, is completely running India down and Manoj Kumar is taking up for India. And there's that song 'Jab Zero Diya.'

Quotes by Farah Khan

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

Quotes by Eva Gabor

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Quotes by Esther Williams

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Quotes by Esther Williams

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

Quotes by Eric Ripert

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

Quotes by Eric Ripert

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

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.

Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

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.

Quotes by Elle Macpherson

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Quotes by Eddie Huang

I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by total accident.

Quotes by Drake Milligan

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

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.

Quotes by Doug E. Fresh

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Quotes by DJ Khaled

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Quotes by Dick Gregory

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.

Quotes by Diana Krall

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.

Quotes by David Walliams

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.

Quotes by David Sax

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.

Quotes by David Henrie

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?

Quotes by David Chang

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.

Quotes by David Chang

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

Quotes by David Chang

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.

Quotes by Darren L Johnson

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.

Quotes by Danny Meyer

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

Quotes by Danny Meyer

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

Quotes by Daniel Pauly

I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

Quotes by Daniel Boulud

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

Quotes by Daniel Boulud

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

Quotes by Daniel Boulud

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

Quotes by Daniel Boulud

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

Quotes by Dacre Montgomery

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Quotes by Connie Francis

The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming 'The Arrow,' is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people.

Quotes by Colin Salmon

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

Quotes by Cilla Black

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

Quotes by Chuck Close

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

Quotes by Christopher Meloni

I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.

Quotes by Christina Milian

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

Quotes by Charlie Trotter

I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

Quotes by Charlie Trotter

In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.

Quotes by Caroline Ghosn

There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.

Quotes by Carol Kane

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Quotes by Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Quotes by Calvin Trillin

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Quotes by Burt Lancaster

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Quotes by Bryan Q. Miller

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Quotes by Bobby Schilling

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Quotes by Bobby Flay

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

Quotes by Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Quotes by Bobby Flay

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

Quotes by Bobby Flay

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Quotes by Blake Lively

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

Quotes by Bindi Irwin

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

Quotes by Bill Rancic

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

Quotes by Bill Rancic

Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Quotes by Bill Goldberg

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

Quotes by Bill Buford

My favourite area of Milano is by the canons - I go to an authentic Italian restaurant around there on a Sunday for delicious food.

Quotes by Bianca Balti

To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.

Quotes by Betty Who

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.

Quotes by Ben Okri

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Quotes by Bee Wilson

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

Quotes by Ashley Greene

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

Quotes by Ashley Jensen

Tip your drag queens, bartenders, and don't rub your chopsticks together at the sushi restaurant. Also, just in general, don't be a dirtbag human.

Quotes by Aquaria

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Quotes by Anne Tyler

I do let the kids play on devices when we eat out - it's better than being thrown out of a restaurant.

Quotes by Anne Wojcicki

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Quotes by Andy Behrman

I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.

Quotes by Andrew Zimmern

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

Quotes by Andrew Oliver

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.

Quotes by Andrew Mason

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Quotes by Amy Carlson

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