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David Chang Quotes

I’m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

– David Chang

Shouldn’t a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That’s the average meal at Jiro’s in Tokyo.

– David Chang

I really don’t care for the proper chef coat.

– David Chang

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

– David Chang

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It’s going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

– David Chang

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

– David Chang

New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.

– David Chang

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?

– David Chang

I’m always criticizing and only see the mistakes.

– David Chang

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad – based on huge portions and fast food. Let’s stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

– David Chang

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

– David Chang

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.

– David Chang

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

If people ask me, ‘What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,’ I’d say there’s nothing to improve on.

– David Chang

I doubt I’d ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.

– David Chang

I was terrible at desk jobs.

– David Chang

When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn’t miss a beat.

– David Chang

Why can’t it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can’t we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we’re not trying to steal from anybody – we’re trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

– David Chang

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