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.

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.