Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my fathe...
Guy in Restaurant: 'Scuse me. John Malkovich: Mm-hmm? Guy in Restaurant: Are you John Malkovich? John Malkovich: Yes, I am. Guy in Restaurant: Wow! You're really, uh, great in that movie... John Malkovich: Oh? Guy in Restaurant: ...where you play tha...
I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.
Life is wasted on the living.
As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.
I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.
And so the Universe ended.
In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.
I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I he...
I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restauran...
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
Every restaurant is a theater, and the truly great ones allow us to indulge in the fantasy that we are rich and powerful. When restaurants hold up their end of the bargain, they give us the illusion of being surrounded by servants intent on ensuring ...
I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.
Never eat in a restaurant where the chef is thin.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.
