It’s probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you’re at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table. – Dan Bartlett
I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in and don’t bother putting them in the oven to crisp them up again. And you shouldn’t put bread on a side-plate: it needs to be pushed back into the centre of the table. – Paul Hollywood
Don’t bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don’t do it, it won’t get done. – Peter Thiel
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
When I go see a basketball game, I’m always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi. – Peter Falk
Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years. – David Sax
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. – Michael Mina
I’ve never missed a flight. And I don’t see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails. – Geoffrey Zakarian
I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I’ll say, ‘You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage – just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don’t need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I’ll eat it.’ – Montel Williams
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role. – Danny Meyer
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. – Masa Takayama
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
I’d gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head! – Derek Jacobi
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee. – Daniel Pauly
Just because you eat doesn’t mean you eat smart. It’s hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant – it’s so cheap – but that wing pack isn’t feeding anyone, it’s just pushing hunger back an hour. – Mario Batali
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I’m there, everyone’s gonna be staring. – Macaulay Culkin
I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn’t all start just a few years ago! – Paul Prudhomme
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. – Ferran Adria
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven’t they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? – Ferran Adria
The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register. – Ferid Murad
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes. – Danny Meyer
In one respect, it’s easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it’s a spectator sport. – Danny Meyer
Maybe I’m like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant – you don’t really want to know what’s going on behind the door. I’m a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. – David Lee Roth
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. – David Morse
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
The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming ‘The Arrow,’ is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people. – Colin Salmon