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Danny Meyer Quotes

A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

– Danny Meyer

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I’ll want to give you the business. It’s human nature.

– Danny Meyer

When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

– Danny Meyer

Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.

– Danny Meyer

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

– Danny Meyer

Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It’s all about hiring the right people.

– Danny Meyer

My staff’s job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

– Danny Meyer

I gasp for air if I don’t get to breathe Italian air once a year.

– Danny Meyer

London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

– Danny Meyer

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

– Danny Meyer

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.

– Danny Meyer

You can’t let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.

– Danny Meyer

The great thing about capitalism is that it’s a system that works.

– Danny Meyer

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

– Danny Meyer

Service is how product is delivered – the technical aspect.

– Danny Meyer

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn’t matter how much money you make.

– Danny Meyer

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

– Danny Meyer

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently – as if they are curating art.

– Danny Meyer

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

– Danny Meyer

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn’t want to pay anything for.

– Danny Meyer

Hospitality knows no gender or race.

– Danny Meyer

I run in London, in San Francisco – any city that’s got a waterfront or park.

– Danny Meyer

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

– Danny Meyer

I think that Shake Shack wouldn’t exist had it not been for Twitter. I don’t think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn’t have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos.

– Danny Meyer

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they’re not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

– Danny Meyer

Essentially what’s going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.

– Danny Meyer

Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.

– Danny Meyer

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.

– Danny Meyer

How can you franchise hospitality?

– Danny Meyer

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

– Danny Meyer

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