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.

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.

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.