I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

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.

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

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.