At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.

Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.