Quotes for All
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 think there’s a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls – ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot … Read more
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. Anthony Bourdain
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business. Anthony Bourdain
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy. Anne Burrell
My mom, who’s been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
Rachael Ray