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

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. — Francis Ford Coppola

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.' — Jennifer Grey

You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role. — Danny Meyer

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 ... — Katharine Whitehorn

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either. — Marguerite Young

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party. — Joe Bastianich

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. — Rory Bremner

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. — Paul Prudhomme

Friends come and go like waiters in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? [...] Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens — Stephen King

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

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. — Gordon Ramsay

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses. — Ferran Adria

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space. — Bobby Flay

Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali

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. — Kevin McCarthy

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

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. — Fran Lebowitz

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. — Arthur Frommer

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. — Carlos Mencia

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. — Rocco DiSpirito

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. — Donald Knuth

I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person. — Nora Ephron

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache. — J. B. Smoove

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. — Gordon Ramsay

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

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. — Michelle Obama

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? — George Carlin

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. — Ashley Jensen

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. — Lemony Snicket

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. — Bobby Flay

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. — Dolly Parton

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. — Roberto Bolano

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

A man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter. — Joan Bauer

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when. — Matthew Norman

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. — Todd Barry

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. — David Henrie

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

First thing you do, room, bar, restaurant, town or crib, is check and memorize the ways out. — James Sallis

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. — Lee Child

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

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. — Emo Philips

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. — Ferran Adria

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

Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. — Ming-Na Wen

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant. — Martin Yan

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. — E.W. Howe

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. — Danny Meyer

Without hesitation, Anita, standing in the middle of the busy restaurant, unzipped her jeans and pealed them off... — Michael Braccia

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. — Jay Park

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. — Paul Prudhomme

Working at a restaurant is a tough gig. — Kevin McCarthy

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

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. — Paul Prudhomme

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. — Mason Cooley

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. — Rachael Ray

Alex has met them at the restaurant with his latest girlfriend, black-banged Lola, a performance artist who claims to have studied magic. — Ron Childress

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. — Nicole Polizzi

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

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe. — Mary-Kate Olsen

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

Inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves. — Jordan Belfort

Each city should have its own type of restaurant. — Marcus Samuelsson

What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name? — Yoseob

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt." — Mitch Hedberg

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

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

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

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. — Bill Bryson

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food. — Thabiso Monkoe

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? — Steve Martin

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. — Charisma Carpenter

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant! — John Goodman

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

The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want. — Tyra Banks

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook. — David Chang

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. — David Letterman

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. — Mickey Gilley

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

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. — Helen Rowland

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

I realized I'd only seen him at night in dim, flattering restaurant lighting. The sun was not his friend. — Augusten Burroughs

Life is an restaurant, in the end you just pay the bill. — Deyth Banger

Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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

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

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. — Jose Andres

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

Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? — Stephen King

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. — Mimi Sheraton

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. — Robert Sietsema

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. — Peg Bracken

Trafficante celebrated in a Tampa restaurant with his lawyer, Ragano. "We'll make — Sal Polisi

Actually, I'd really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant? — Vivian Balakrishnan