In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

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

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

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.