Quotes about Restaurant

I'm a restaurant junkie. Votes: 4

We've become such a restaurant society. Votes: 4

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. Votes: 4

Working at a restaurant is a tough gig. Votes: 4

I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. Votes: 4

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. Votes: 4

I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant. Votes: 4

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant. Votes: 4

Every restaurant needs to have a point of view. Votes: 4

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. Votes: 4

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. Votes: 4

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria. Votes: 4

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. Votes: 4

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant. Votes: 4

I like to go out to different restaurants in New York. I'm a restaurant junkie. Votes: 4

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. Votes: 4

The restaurant industry is brutal. Votes: 3

I worked in a Chinese restaurant. Votes: 3

In the restaurant it's much more serious. Votes: 3

What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name? Votes: 3

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business. Votes: 3

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee. Votes: 3

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. Votes: 3

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue. Votes: 3

I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. Votes: 3

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant! Votes: 3

You're not even in a restaurant, but... you got served! Votes: 3

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. Votes: 3

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. Votes: 3

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation? Votes: 3

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. Votes: 3

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant. Votes: 3

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference. Votes: 3

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant. Votes: 3

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. Votes: 3

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. Votes: 3

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. Votes: 3

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization. Votes: 3

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. Votes: 3

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling Votes: 3

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal. Votes: 3

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman. Votes: 3

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred. Votes: 3

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. Votes: 3

I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home. Votes: 3

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more. Votes: 3

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves. Votes: 3

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, Votes: 3

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke. Votes: 3

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. Votes: 3

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? Votes: 3

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant. Votes: 3

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge. Votes: 3

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant. Votes: 3

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined. Votes: 3

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. Votes: 3

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. Votes: 3

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. Votes: 3

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. Votes: 3

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman Votes: 3

The thing with restaurant talk is you're not supposed to take it to heart. Votes: 3

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register. Votes: 3

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. Votes: 3

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. Votes: 3

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu. Votes: 3

I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower. Votes: 3

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. Votes: 3

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant. Votes: 3

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me. Votes: 3

Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant. Votes: 3

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner. Votes: 3

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant. Votes: 3

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. Votes: 3

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. Votes: 3

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? Votes: 3

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Votes: 3

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey. Votes: 3

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache. Votes: 3

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before. Votes: 3

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. Votes: 3

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine. Votes: 3

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. Votes: 3

I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love. Votes: 3

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. Votes: 3

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. Votes: 3

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself. Votes: 3

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. Votes: 3

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. Votes: 3

I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people! Votes: 3

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' Votes: 3

I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar. Votes: 3

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator. Votes: 3

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke. Votes: 3

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring. Votes: 3

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant. Votes: 3

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. Votes: 3

We made love in the restaurant booth. It was romantic until our waiter knocked on our windshield. Votes: 3

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. Votes: 3

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. Votes: 3

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? Votes: 3

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. Votes: 3

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area. Votes: 3

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu. Votes: 3

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. Votes: 3

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. Votes: 3

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. Votes: 3

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in. Votes: 3

The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost. Votes: 3

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Votes: 3

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant. Votes: 3

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin. Votes: 3

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job. Votes: 3

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me. Votes: 3

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there. Votes: 3

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter." Votes: 3

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job." Votes: 3

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu. Votes: 3

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. Votes: 3

A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet. Votes: 3

I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. Votes: 3

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency. Votes: 3

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. Votes: 3

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall. Votes: 3

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant? Votes: 3

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' Votes: 3

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. Votes: 3

Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table. Votes: 3

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire. Votes: 3

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. Votes: 3

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party." Votes: 3

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party. Votes: 3

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. Votes: 3

Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen. Votes: 3

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream. Votes: 3

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. Votes: 3

I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja. Votes: 3

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility. Votes: 3

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. Votes: 3

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Votes: 3

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. Votes: 3

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. Votes: 3

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one. Votes: 3

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night... Votes: 3

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. Votes: 3

I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver. Votes: 3

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. Votes: 3

You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role. Votes: 3

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. Votes: 3

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there. Votes: 3

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. Votes: 3

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Votes: 3

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match. Votes: 3

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. Votes: 3

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.' Votes: 3

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. Votes: 3

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast Votes: 3

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star... Votes: 3

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. Votes: 3

The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having. Votes: 3

Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe. Votes: 3

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space. Votes: 3

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. Votes: 3

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. Votes: 3

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies. Votes: 3

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. Votes: 3

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years. Votes: 3

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes. Votes: 3

Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant! Votes: 3

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded." Votes: 3

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. Votes: 3

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. Votes: 3

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. Votes: 3

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. Votes: 3

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. Votes: 3

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. Votes: 3

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. Votes: 3

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Votes: 3

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. Votes: 3

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. Votes: 3

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. Votes: 3

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant. Votes: 3

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it. Votes: 3

There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails. Votes: 3

There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person. Votes: 3

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses. Votes: 3

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant! Votes: 3

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. Votes: 3

I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. Votes: 3

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants. Votes: 3

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally. Votes: 3

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. Votes: 3

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. Votes: 3

I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me. Votes: 3

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. Votes: 3

Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face. Votes: 3

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food. Votes: 3

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. Votes: 3

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. Votes: 3

I don't think I have charisma. I don't think that someone will yell 'Wow, he's charismatic' when I'm eating in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. Votes: 3

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. Votes: 3

A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women? Votes: 3

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go. Votes: 3

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung! Votes: 3

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had. Votes: 3

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food. Votes: 3

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe. Votes: 3

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. Votes: 3

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.' Votes: 3

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. Votes: 3

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe Votes: 3

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review. Votes: 3

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me. Votes: 3

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs. Votes: 3

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately. Votes: 3

I would not take a girl to a club on a Thursday. I would not take her to a really noisy, swanky restaurant. Votes: 3

The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). Votes: 3

I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant. Votes: 3

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important. Votes: 3

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. Votes: 3

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that. Votes: 3

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt." Votes: 3

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees. Votes: 3

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee. Votes: 3

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' Votes: 3

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals. Votes: 3

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London. Votes: 3

Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone. Votes: 3

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. Votes: 3

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. Votes: 3

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to. Votes: 3

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. Votes: 3

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. Votes: 3

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention. Votes: 3

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. Votes: 3

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself. Votes: 3

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York. Votes: 3

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. Votes: 3

Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise. Votes: 3

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?' Votes: 3

If I want to eat lunch, I can't go out at noon and head over to Chick-fil-A or Mac's restaurant and not get stopped. Votes: 3

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. Votes: 3

When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes. Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant. Votes: 3

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it. Votes: 3

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant. Votes: 3

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand. Votes: 3

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. Votes: 3

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ... Votes: 3

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. Votes: 3

Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon. Votes: 3

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses. Votes: 3

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant. Votes: 3

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. Votes: 3

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it. Votes: 3

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right.' Votes: 3

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura. Votes: 3

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that. Votes: 3

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers. Votes: 3

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment. Votes: 3

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers. Votes: 3

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. Votes: 3

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live. Votes: 3

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying. Votes: 3

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway. Votes: 3

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying. Votes: 3

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day. Votes: 3

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back. Votes: 3

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them. Votes: 3

Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it. Votes: 3

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Votes: 3

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. Votes: 3

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success. Votes: 3

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying. Votes: 3

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego. Votes: 3

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. Votes: 3

In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders. Votes: 3

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops. Votes: 3

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho, psycho'! Votes: 3

The after-party is always at a restaurant, and for me, the fun starts when I get a cheese platter. That's as f-ed up as I get. Votes: 3

I went out to eat on a restaurant's opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I'd be dining there and came to adore me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people. Votes: 3

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country. Votes: 3

Going out to eat is expensive. I was out at one restaurant and they didn't have prices on the menu. Just faces with different expressions of horror. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy. Votes: 3

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. Votes: 3

The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe. Votes: 3

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig. Votes: 3

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice. Votes: 3

I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right. Votes: 3

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is. Votes: 3

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife. Votes: 3

There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant. Votes: 3

If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife. Votes: 3

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant. Votes: 3

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. Votes: 3

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere. Votes: 3

I was eavesdropping, but I was so into what she was saying that when she said, I love you, I almost shouted it back from across the restaurant. Votes: 3

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get." Votes: 3

I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito. Votes: 3

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. Votes: 3

Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank. Votes: 3

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. Votes: 3

You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant. Votes: 3

My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti. Votes: 3

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' Votes: 3

I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other. Votes: 3

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen. Votes: 3

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion. Votes: 3

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. Votes: 3

When I go to a restaurant and they say, 'We're fully booked,' I say, 'It's Roberto Cavalli,' and they say, 'I will check'. I love it! Votes: 3

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter. Votes: 3

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all. Votes: 3

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer. Votes: 3

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder. Votes: 3

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese. Votes: 3

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant. Votes: 3

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment. Votes: 3

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. Votes: 3

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.' Votes: 3

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. Votes: 3

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear. Votes: 3

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. Votes: 3

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Capitalist cycle of profit. The rancher sells a cow for profit. The butcher sells cuts for profit. The restaurant sells meals for profit. And the patrons spend money for profit. Votes: 3

I told the waitress I wanted some coffee. She asked if I wanted leaded of unleaded, so I had to leave the restaurant, because I quit drinking gasoline years ago. Votes: 3

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant. Votes: 3

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn) Votes: 3

There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys. Votes: 3

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. Votes: 3

If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don't compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he'll be thrilled, because he took you there. Votes: 3

You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails. Votes: 3

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago. Votes: 3

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine? Votes: 3

I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system. Votes: 3

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant. Votes: 3

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?' Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair. Votes: 3

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef. Votes: 3

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?' Votes: 3

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.' Votes: 3

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans. Votes: 3

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. Votes: 3

You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing. Votes: 3

. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference. Votes: 3

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works. Votes: 3

If I'd never gone out and done more than one restaurant, my food wouldn't be as good as it is today. I've learned a lot from people who work for me. Votes: 3

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is. Votes: 3

When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great. Votes: 3

To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it. Votes: 3

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block. Votes: 3

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant. Votes: 3

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen. Votes: 3

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?" Votes: 3

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. Votes: 3

Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch. Votes: 3

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did. Votes: 3

My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other. Votes: 3

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is. Votes: 3

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no. Votes: 3

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did. Votes: 3

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train. Votes: 3

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good. Votes: 3

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes. Votes: 3

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on. Votes: 3

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul. Votes: 3

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, "He's a pirate" - I was very proud of that answer. Votes: 3

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing? Votes: 3

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children. Votes: 3

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that. Votes: 3

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner. Votes: 3

The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart? Votes: 3

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie. Votes: 3

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things. Votes: 3

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire." Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal. Votes: 3

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years. Votes: 3

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status. Votes: 3

I've lived all over the world, but Harlem is very special to me, and when I decided to open a restaurant near my home, I didn't want it to be business as usual. Votes: 3

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. Votes: 3

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck". Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer. Votes: 3

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death. Votes: 3

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. Votes: 3

Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss." Votes: 3

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy. Votes: 3

My big success is to see my guests happy when they like my food. My place is not a restaurant. It's my house. The people are not customers. They are my guests, my friends. Votes: 3

I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant. Votes: 3

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place. Votes: 3

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here. Votes: 3

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! Votes: 3

You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends. Votes: 3

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup. Votes: 3

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon. Votes: 3

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Votes: 3

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own. Votes: 3

We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. Votes: 3

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices. Votes: 3

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head. Votes: 3

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's. Votes: 3

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant. Votes: 3

Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations. Votes: 3

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot. Votes: 3

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. Votes: 3

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor! Votes: 3

I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not. Votes: 3

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately. Votes: 3

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change. Votes: 3

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do. Votes: 3

I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up. Votes: 3

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas." Votes: 3

The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food. Votes: 3

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do. Votes: 3

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. Votes: 3

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. Votes: 3

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back." Votes: 3

I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have. Votes: 3

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave. Votes: 3

And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?' Votes: 3

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged. Votes: 3

The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it. Votes: 3

When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz Votes: 3

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately? Votes: 3

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!' Votes: 3

I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey. Votes: 3

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something. Votes: 3

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it. Votes: 3

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie. Votes: 3

I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play. Votes: 3

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun! Votes: 3

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant. Votes: 3

Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived! Votes: 3

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring. Votes: 3

You want to move into worlds you've never been in before. It would be like going to the same restaurant all the time or going to the same place for vacation all the time. Where is the adventure in that? Votes: 3

I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?. Votes: 3

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3