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1,000 Best Restaurant Quotes: Employees, Customers, Good Food

1. “A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.” Warner LeRoy


2. “Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.” – David Bowie, Singer.


3. “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.” – Lynda Montgomery


4. “Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.” – Warren Mille


5. “There are advantages to being a star, though. You can always get a table in a full restaurant.” Ingrid Bergman


6. “There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant.” – Ingrid Bergman


7. “Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant better left unstirred.” – P. G. Wodehouse


8. “The location of a restaurant is as important as its food.” -Unknown


9. Being alone is something I don’t mind. I have my own company and it’s pretty swell. We go to restaurants or the cinema, and the price is right, I’m all alone!


10. “Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.”


11. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” ~ George Carlin


12. “A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.” – Philip Rosenthal, Television Writer and Producer.


13. “What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.” — Jeffrey Dean Morgan


14. “I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.” Calvin Trillin


15. “In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.” – Jewish Proverb


16. “I went to a fancy french restaurant called Deja Vu. The headwaiter said, ‘Don’t I know you?’” – Rod Schmidt


17. “In a restaurant you can provide community a place to rest, eat, and laugh.” – Unknown


18. Date someone who gives you the same feeling of when you see your food coming at a restaurant.


19. “Look at your waiter’s face. He knows. It’s another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh.” – Anthony Bourdain.


20. “I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.”


21. “Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.”


22. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”


23. “Shee, you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off.”


24. Chicago food is a weiner!


25. “You’re so cute I could eat you!”


26. “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them." P.G. Wodehouse


27. I only drink wine on days that end with a “y.”


28. Restaurants are my therapy.


29. I don't know anything about the restaurant business. Nothing. All I know is to sit down and order a meal, not how to make a restaurant.


30. A person who likes to share their love of a certain food, restaurant, or kind of chicken with others; someone who experiments with chicken recipes in their kitchen.


31. We’re more than just a restaurant, we’re your neighborhood haven.


32. “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” -M. F. K. Fisher, Food Writer.


33. “But what makes my job so great is there’s no one answer that’s right for every restaurant.” –David Rockwell


34. “Good customer service costs less than bad customer service.” – Sally Gronow, Customer Manager Welsh Water


35. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”


36. “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”


37. “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of…it will be built on the fragmented..that is to say it will have been built by this time, and indeed has been –”


38. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” - Fran Lebowitz


39. “Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large.” - Pliny


40. “When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.” Jeffrey Wright


41. “The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.”


42. First, we eat then we do everything else.


43. Happiness is no cooking, no cleaning, no laundry.


44. Good friends wine together.


45. “A meal without wine is called breakfast.”


46. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”


47. Wish you were here to Valenwine with me.


48. You don’t come into cooking to get rich.


49. “I was at this restaurant. The sign said ‘Breakfast Anytime.’ So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.” – Steven Wright


50. “I don’t want to make food that only the top 3 percent can enjoy. That doesn’t bring my heart joy. I want to create a place that services a wide range of people. There are sleepless nights, 24-hour work days. I’m rooted in love and passion for the game.” - Nyesha Arrington


51. Aging like fine wine.


52. Eating Christmas cookies for two – Baby due (month) (year)


53. “Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”


54. “To keep a customer demands as much skill as to win one.” – American Proverb


55. “People expect good service but few are willing to give it.” – Robert Gately, President Gately Consulting


56. “Rule 1: The customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is ever wrong, read Rule 1.” – Stew Leonard’s Grocery Store Customer Policy


57. “Drinking wine teaches us how to smile and love.”


58. “Bottom-line obsession comes from turning the pursuit of money into a God and forgetting the real master your business serves: The Customer.” – Michael Shevack, Executive Coach


59. Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool.


60. “There is only one right way to eat a steak – with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.” – Soumet Lanka


61. “Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.” - Josh Hutcherson


62. “Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.” — Mike Kalin


63. Let wine be thy medicine and medicine be thy wine.


64. First, we eat. Then, we do everything else.


65. “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, oh my God...I could be eating a slow learner.” Lynda Montgomery


66. I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.


67. Home is where the wine is.


68. “I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others’ light.”


69. “It’s okay to play with your food.” – Emeril Lagasse


70. “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”


71. “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.”


72. Let them eat cake.


73. “My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.” - Dolly Parton


74. good food is good moo.


75. “Although the skills aren’t hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.” – Mario Batali, Chef.


76. “Never eat more than you can lift.” —Miss Piggy


77. “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” ― Moliere


78. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.


79. “Sister, it’s your birthday. Keep calm and eat cupcakes!”


80. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” –Virginia Woolf


81. Hunger is a good cook


82. “Home is where the Christmas cookies and presents are!”


83. “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.” – James Cash Penney, Founder J.C. Penney Stores


84. I wasn't going to eat it, I was just going to taste it.


85. Don’t be upset, eat some spaghetti.


86. Life is too short to drink bad wine.


87. “When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.” ― Wayne W. Dyer


88. “When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.” – David J. Schwartz, Author and Motivational Speaker


89. Good food, good life.


90. “Life is too short to drink bad wine.”


91. I eat rejections for breakfast!


92. “Stafford’s Law of Dining Out states that the second you finish ordering something in a restaurant, food will immediately arrive at an adjacent table that looks ten times better.” – Stewart Stafford, Author.


93. “Good people and good wine - what more can I say?”


94. Food tastes better when you eat with your family.


95. “In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.” – Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live


96. Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.” ― Rumi


97. “Learning about history in [Savannah] was so empowering. I started to see where I wanted to go with the food. That confidence started to reawaken. I became the chef that was looking backwards in order to look forward. - Mashama Bailey


98. Francois de La Rochefoucauld


99. Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.


100. “I like spaghetti and pizza, are they healthy foods?”


101. “Life is for service.” – Fred Rogers


102. The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.


103. ″‘Marvin,” he said, “just get this elevator go up will you? We’ve got to get to Zarniwoop.’


104. The sun, the melody, the wine. – Théophile Gautier


105. “Good food is an amazing blessing.” — Brenda Knight


106. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Peter Drucker


107. Do not pursue the taste of good food.


108. “I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.” – Nigella Lawson


109. “I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.” - Carla Hall


110. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude.”


111. “Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.”


112. “The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.” – Kerry Stokes, Chairman of the Seven Network


113. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”


114. “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – Oscar Wilde, Author.


115. “A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”


116. Champagne is the wine of civilisation… the oil of government.


117. “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”


118. The ultimate luxury food.


119. “It’s okay to play with your food.” ― Emeril Lagasse


120. Friends buy you lunch whereas best friends eat your lunch.


121. “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” –Mitch Hedberg


122. “In a restaurant, choose a table near a waiter.” Jewish Proverb


123. “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.


124. “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”


125. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” - Jim Davis


126. It takes an army of talented and successful people to execute a successful restaurant.


127. “It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” Federico Fellini


128. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”


129. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison, Inventor.


130. Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.


131. “To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.” - Heston Blumenthal


132. I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.


133. “If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store, and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.” Bryan Miller


134. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.


135. “Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.” – Kevin Stirtz, Author.


136. No one who cooks, cooks alone.


137. “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” - Ernestine Ulmer


138. “Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.”


139. ... is all wrapped up in our special, freshly cooked wrap!


140. Friends buy you food.


141. “When you want a dining experience, come and see us, and we’ll tantalise your taste buds with flavours that you never thought possible.” ― Anthony T. Hincks


142. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley, Author and Motivational Speaker


143. ”Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.” – Donald Porter, Vice President of British Airways.


144. “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it.” – Bear Bryant, Former College Football Player and Coach


145. Best friends eat your food.


146. “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” Henry Youngman


147. It’s wine o’clock somewhere.


148. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” - Rumi


149. You know, food is such – it’s a hug for people.


150. Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette


151. “A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” - Thomas Keller


152. Guess what’s cooking in our oven? (Hint: it’s not cookies


153. We’re eating all the food in 🍗 Let’s get it!


154. “Where there is no wine there is no love.” – Euripides


155. “He didn’t know why he had become President of the Galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.”


156. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” –Hippocrates


157. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin, Inventor and Author.


158. “Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Author


159. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”- Rumi


160. “Biggest question: Isn’t it really ‘customer helping’ rather than customer service? And wouldn’t you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?” – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Professional Speaker


161. “We all must do what we can to keep our favorite restaurants alive.”


162. “Cheers to my partners in wine.”


163. “Let them eat cake.”


164. "Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young


165. “Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one!” – Laurice Leitao, Customer Service Professional SeraCare Life Sciences


166. “I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”


167. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw, Author.


168. “Never eat more than you can life.”


169. “Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.”


170. “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” – Martin Luther


171. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” - Doug Larson


172. “Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.”


173. “His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.


174. “I don’t understand what a wine stopper is for.”


175. “Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one’s fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.” – Jacques Pépin, Chef.


176. Jog, run, ride a bike, visit your family, go to church, eat at your favorite restaurant or cook your favorite meal – whatever it is just enjoy the day.


177. Cook your own food. And eat in.


178. The only thing better than talking about food is eating it.


179. Being in love with food isn’t a statement. It is an emotion.


180. “Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” – Les Brown, Author and Motivational Speaker


181. “Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.” - Joel Fuhrman


182. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”


183. “Only cooked time tastes well.”— Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed


184. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.” ~ Rumi


185. “In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”


186. If you want to eat really well, just cook!


187. to eat flowers and not to be afraid”


188. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.


189. “Eating good food is my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful.” - Justine Larbalestier


190. Probably the best meat eater in the world.


191. “Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.” - Jonathan Safran Foer


192. “Tell your waiters to be friendly. Your food can win the appetites of your customer but your manners will win their hearts. ” -Unkown


193. Live, love, eat.


194. I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.


195. “When the customer comes first, the customer will last.” – Robert Half, Founder of Robert Half International


196. “You only live once—so drink great wine.”


197. “Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude!” – Unknown


198. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.” – Michael LeBoeuf, Business author and former management professor


199. “We’ve been cooking something up.”


200. ″‘In an infinite Universe anything can happen,’ said Ford. ‘Even survival. Strange but true.‘”


201. I eat losers for breakfast


202. For health and food, for everything thy goodness sends.


203. Friends come and go like waiters in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? [...] Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens - Author: Stephen King


204. If you think well, you cook well.


205. “Good food should be a right not a privilege.” — Alice Waters


206. “Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!”


207. “Sometimes the kitchen is too hot.”


208. “To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Essayist


209. “Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it’s wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.” – Thomas Keller


210. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays; I go to Fridays. – Henny Youngman


211. “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.”


212. “Eating good food is my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful.”


213. “When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome… and then, of course, you spoke.” – Helen Hunt in “As Good As It Gets”


214. “Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.”


215. “My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” - Orson Welles


216. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”


217. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.


218. “The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie’s, Pop’s and Capt’n Dick’s.”


219. The ultimate chicken—boneless, skinless and ready to eat.


220. Some people go to church on Sunday mornings; others go to brunch restaurants, but we come here.


221. We’re eating good tonight.


222. “Never eat more than you can lift.”


223. “The purpose of business should be to make life better for people.” – Unknown


224. Nothing better than a poolside glass of wine


225. “Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.”


226. “I started cooking professionally because I had hit a point in my life where I was just sort of lost and cooking was something I had always loved and so I grabbed onto it.” - Amanda Cohen


227. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk!”


228. “Part of the secret of success is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” –Mark Twain


229. “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”


230. “The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen Keller, Author and Political Activist


231. “You can have what you want if you help other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar, Author and Motivational Speaker


232. Open your restaurant as if you’re the customers.


233. The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking.


234. If you have good food, people will come.


235. “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.


236. “You’re the wine that I want.”


237. “The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.” – José Andrés, Chef and Founder of World Central Kitchen.


238. No ribs, no rice, no champagne! You don’t eat nothing!” – Rico


239. “In vino veritas (In wine there is truth).” – Alcaeus


240. Carl Sagan is a master chef.


241. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett, Advertising Executive


242. “Part of the secret of success is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”


243. “Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.”


244. “Don’t go to restaurants that have waterfalls if you have a kidney condition.”


245. “The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.” – Kerry Stokes, Businessman.


246. “What is earned with hard labor is eaten with pleasure.”


247. “Love is like wine, it gets better every day.” – Vann Chow


248. A bad day in a restaurant is better than a good day without one.


249. Happiness is cooking for someone special.


250. Let them eat cake! Happy Birthday, Queen!


251. Don’t think. Just cook.


252. Let's re-wine this night and do it again.


253. A sitch with wine saves nine!


254. Happiness is..cooking with your mom.


255. “There is truth in wine and children.” - Plato


256. “Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.”


257. “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.” - E.M. Forster


258. “To earn the respect (and eventually love) of your customers, you first have to respect those customers. That is why Golden Rule behavior is embraced by most of the winning companies.” – Colleen Barrett, Southwest Airlines President Emerita


259. “Let them eat cake.” — Marie Antoinette


260. “Home is where the wine is.”


261. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”


262. ‘Please don’t hesitate to get lost.’”


263. If one of us eats, we all eat.


264. Well, I brought my dinosaur who eats force-field dogs.


265. “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” - Ludwig van Beethoven


266. I don’t even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.


267. “Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.” – Gordon Ramsey, Chef and Television Host.


268. There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well.


269. “I just rescued some wine. It was trapped in a bottle.”


270. “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”


271. “One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough – you have to be a great businessman.” – Wolfgang Puck, Chef.


272. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?‘” – Brian Tracy, Author and Motivational Speaker


273. Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.


274. “The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”


275. “Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.” – Tony Allesandra, Author and Speaker.


276. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”


277. You’ll feel like a billionaire eating this chicken.


278. “I’m here. And I have wine.”


279. ‘I’ve seen it. It’s rubbish,’ said Zaphod,‘nothing but a gnab gib.’


280. “Happy Fat Tuesday! Let the food begin.”


281. Happiness is the flavor of life, and you are the chef.


282. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.” – Michael LeBoeuf, Author.


283. “Eating cookings for 2 this year.”


284. “Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.” - Jonathan Swift


285. “The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”


286. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first (Page 180). Such a great truth! If you’ve ever walked into a restaurant where the employees didn’t buy into the mission of the company, then you totally understand this.


287. “Talk doesn’t cook rice.” – Chinese proverb


288. Homemade cookies make the world a better place.


289. All I want for Christmas is food.


290. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ― Rumi


291. “There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.” – Gordon Ramsey


292. I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.


293. “There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.”


294. Beer is made by men, wine by God.


295. “Friends and wine… the older, the better.”


296. “I’m on cloud wine.”


297. “I’m from a Cuban family, so we’re used to talking really loud. You come to a cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we’re practically screaming at each other” – Kat Dahlia


298. Uh-oh, out of alcohol. Better call wine-one-one.


299. “If music be the food of love, play on.”- William Shakespeare


300. “Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.”


301. "Sometimes it’s okay to eat your feelings.”


302. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” – Dave Carolan, Coach.


303. “Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.”


304. “So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being.” – Franz Kafka


305. “There is truth in wine and children.” — Plato


306. Cheese and wine and everything fine.


307. “Decisive moments set the options available to your future self. For instance, walking into a restaurant is a decisive moment because it determines what you’ll be eating for lunch.”


308. I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.


309. “More wine – Less whine” – Anonymous


310. “Rule 1: The customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is ever wrong, re-read Rule 1.” – Stew Leonard, CEO of Stew Leonard’s.


311. “Do not serve food in a restaurant but fulfil dreams with a taste.” –Unknown


312. I'll take any excuse to wine down.


313. You don’t have to break the bank to eat like royalty.


314. People who love to eat are always the best people.


315. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.”


316. “Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.” – Lao Tzu, Philosopher


317. Working in a restaurant means being part of a family.


318. “If you’re choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, ‘Heimlich maneuver,’ and all will be well. Trouble is, it’s difficult to say ‘Heimlich maneuver’ when you’re choking to death.”


319. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” - Maya Angelou


320. “Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.” – Scott D. Cook, Founder Intuit


321. “You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” - Paul Prudhomme


322. “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.” P. G. Wodehouse


323. "Am I just eating because I’m bored?”


324. When you think you see your food coming at a restaurant, and then you realize it’s not yours.


325. When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”


326. “If you love your customer to death, you can’t go wrong.” – Graham Day, Business Executive and Lawyer.


327. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf, Author.


328. A burger is meant to be eaten like you love it.


329. If I share my food with you, it's a big deal.


330. “One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.” – Travis Jeremiah Dahnke, Writer.


331. “Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.” – Marcus Samuelsson.


332. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.


333. If you combine wine and dinner, the new word is winner.


334. “There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.” – Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Author and Television Show Host.


335. “Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.”


336. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” –Orson Welles


337. “People come to Nashville where I live, and they say, ‘What’s a great Southern restaurant?’ Well, you got to know the right grandmother because there’s a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.” – John Carter Cash


338. ″‘If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.’”


339. On cloud wine with you.


340. “We give you an eating experience that you’ll never forget” – Anthony T. Hincks


341. Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach


342. “Let’s go wine tasting on the couch.”


343. “Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It’s a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.”- Anthony Bourdain.


344. “I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” - W.C. Fields


345. “Looking for something nearby—a coffee shop, noodle restaurant, shoe store—is one of the most common searches we do. In fact, nearly one-third of all mobile searches are related to location.”


346. Home is wherever I’m with food.


347. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” -Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft.


348. “What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.”


349. “Wine is bottled poetry.”


350. Oh wine. The cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems.


351. My cooking is so fabulous, even the fire alarms cheer me on.


352. ‘Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let’s get zappy.‘”


353. “You look like I need wine.”


354. “Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.’ – Dale Carnegie, Writer and Lecturer.


355. I don't care what they say about me. I just want to eat.


356. “Seek first to understand. Then to be understood.” – Stephen Covey, Author “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”


357. “Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.” - Anthony Bourdain


358. Let us show you the proper way to cook a bird.


359. You're the wine that I want.


360. “I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”


361. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.” — Rumi


362. “Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’”


363. “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”


364. Great cooking favors the prepared hands.


365. “I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.”


366. “A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.” – Morey Amsterdam


367. “This home runs on love, laughter, and really good wine.”


368. Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?


369. If I take a picture of my food it was probably good 😎


370. Today you will get married and I will eat cake!


371. What wine goes with Captain Crunch?


372. “Never underestimate the power of the human element. Whether it’s assisting a guest with a special request or a friendly greeting from staff members in the hallway, the people aspect plays a key role in guest satisfaction and loyalty.” – Ramez Faza, Sr. Account Manager at J.D. Power and Associates


373. “Go downtown and eat it like a vulture.” – Missy Elliot


374. “Friends buy you Pizza. Best friends eat your Pizza.”


375. “Come unto me, all ye that labor in the stomach, and I will restore you”


376. Love, like wine, gets better with time.


377. “There’s the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It’s not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it’s like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.” – David Chang, Chef and Television Host.


378. “Lifting and eating my two favorite things in life.” —Unknown


379. “If cooking is what you love, do it with great vigor, pride, and excellence. It pleases me when I see guests conversing, noshing, happy and satisfied. I savor all the flavors of life.” - Kai Chase


380. “Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid $96 and I'm still hungry.” Mike Kalin


381. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going” – George Carlin


382. “I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.” - Laura Esquivel


383. “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” – Barbara Johnson


384. “What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot, Novelist


385. “It is not your customer’s job to remember you, it is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.” – Patricia Fripp, Professional Keynote Speaker


386. “I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”


387. The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.


388. “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” – Common Sense


389. Finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.” ― Mario Batali


390. More than a food baby


391. “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” ― Martin Luther


392. “To be a good server you need an elevated personality with a good heart.”


393. “When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.” – Jeffrey Wright


394. “I enjoy wine collecting and great food.” – Deep Roy


395. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” George Carlin


396. Friendship is the wine of life. -Edward Young


397. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”


398. “I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.” - Alice Waters


399. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”


400. "Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk!”


401. “Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.” – Moffat Machingura


402. “Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.”


403. Restaurant life.


404. “Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? I can't stand the idea of us being a couple people think that about.”


405. “The best wines are the ones we drink together.”


406. “A cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.” Morey Amsterdam


407. I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.


408. “Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”


409. “First we eat, then we do everything else.” – M.F.K. Fisher


410. “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” – Marian Wright Edelman, Founder Children’s Defense Fund


411. Guess what’s cooking in our oven? (Hint: it’s not cookies).


412. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” – Gretta Palmer, Author and Editor


413. Cooking with love provides food for the soul.


414. “I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.”


415. No ribs, no rice, no champagne! You don’t eat nothing! ~Rico


416. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.” – Sam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart.


417. With wine and hope, anything is possible.


418. “Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.” – Lous Nizer, Lawyer


419. “I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture.” – Jorge Ramos


420. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” – Julia Child


421. “When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.” – Edmund G. Love


422. There’s nothing like a home-cooked meal.


423. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou


424. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.


425. “All worries are less with wine.”


426. “Show your confidence. Show you’re not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping.”‒ Rudy Giuliani


427. “Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” - Alan D. Wolfelt | Food Quotes - Sophisticated Gourmet


428. My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.


429. “How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.” – Marilyn Suttle, Success Coach


430. “Let them eat cake.” ― Marie Antoinette


431. “Dinosaurs eat man......woman inherits the earth.”


432. ″‘But what about the End of the Universe? We’ll miss the big moment.’


433. Fine wine is like a wife, I can’t afford either.


434. “Motherhood: Powered by love. Sustained by wine.”


435. As long as we have wine, family holidays will be fine.


436. Barney : Been eating too much electricity?


437. -“Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.” – Helen Rowland


438. A good day starts with good coffee, and ends with good wine.


439. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”


440. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”


441. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself — so always think positively.” – Norman Vincent Peale, Author The Power of Positive Thinking


442. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”


443. “Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution.” – Rick Tate, Author.


444. “I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You’d think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.”


445. Some women are made of sarcasm, wine, and everything fine.


446. “First we eat, then we do everything else.”


447. “If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.” – Jim Rohn, Author and Motivational Speaker


448. “I don’t eat for taste, I eat for function.” - Jay Cutler


449. “Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.”― Elbert Hubbard


450. “Life is short. Eat the Christmas cookies.”


451. “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” –


452. The best food is homemade. – Julia Child


453. “Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’” - Anthony Bourdain


454. Keep calm and eat cheese.


455. “Pizza is like the entire food pyramid!” ― Madeline Oles


456. “I am falser than vows made in wine.” ― William Shakespeare


457. “I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”


458. This is my favorite seafood place!


459. Coffee keeps me going until it’s acceptable to drink wine.


460. “Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.” – Moffat Machingura, Author.


461. “The belly rules the mind.”


462. “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.”


463. “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”


464. “If you can’t beat them, eat them!”


465. “Baking more than cookies this year.”


466. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer, Author and Motivational Speaker.


467. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.


468. “Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.”


469. “Get in the holiday mood; donate some food.”


470. Don’t judge me. I’m eating for two!


471. Who needs friends when you can drink all the wine you want?


472. “I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.”


473. “If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.” – Rodney Dangerfield, Actor and Comedian.


474. “Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.” – Dana Spiotta, Author.


475. “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” –Ruth Reichl


476. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” –Scott Adams


477. “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare


478. If you can read, you can cook.


479. “Italy will always have the best food.”


480. There is no more sincere love than the love of food.


481. My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.


482. “The disparity between a restaurant’s price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.” – Bryan Miller


483. “I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.”


484. “Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.”


485. (13) Party of…: Announce your pregnancy by stating how you’ll soon ask for a restaurant table, “Party of…”. (via @picturemethisbylacie and @beauty.with.a.blog)


486. “Be helpful — even if there’s no immediate profit in it.” – Susan Ward, Small Business Expert and Writer


487. I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.


488. “If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.” – Anthony Bourdain.


489. Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade. - Author: Gary Owen


490. If gossip were food, many people would be overweight.


491. “As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate.” ― Anthony Bourdain


492. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf, Business author and former management professor


493. “The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.” – Og Mandino, Author The Greatest Salesman in the World


494. Either give me more wine or leave me alone.


495. “The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”


496. My secret ingredient is letting somebody else cook.


497. “A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team It makes the most of every crew member’s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service ” – David Ogilvy, Advertising mogul


498. “Don’t eat yellow snow.”


499. A bath bomb and a glass of wine and I’ll be fine.


500. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”― Rumi


501. “A good spice often deceives us into thinking that someone is a good cook.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana


502. .. consists in giving, and in serving others. ― Henry Drummond


503. Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Author: Calvin Trillin


504. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” – Zig Ziglar, Author, Salesman, and Speaker.


505. “Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.” – Elbert Hubbard, Artist and Writer


506. “Never eat more than you can life.” - Miss Piggy


507. Age gets better with wine. Happy birthday!


508. “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.” - Judith Viorst


509. “Working in the restaurant industry teaches a person what not to do or say.”


510. The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.


511. “Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”


512. “Wine is bottled poetry.” –Robert Luis Stevenson


513. A taste of the food life.


514. “My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music.” - Jennifer Aniston


515. “I’m from a Cuban family, so we’re used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we’re practically screaming at each other.” – Kat Dahlia


516. Hello, beautiful. It’s time to cook.


517. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”


518. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.” – Walt Disney, Founder of Disney.


519. “Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef.” – Thomas Keller, Chef.


520. You only live once—so drink great wine.


521. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”


522. Gigi Hadid eats a burger once a week and so do I.


523. Today I say no to eating lunch at 10:47am.


524. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison


525. Restaurant vibes.


526. “If you don’t care, your customer never will.” – Marlene Blaszczyk, Motivational Specialist


527. “Until you understand your customers — deeply and genuinely — you cannot truly serve them.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru, Author of Soul Trader


528. “Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.” - Winona LaDuke


529. “- Paul Cicero: You know anything about this fucking restaurant business?


530. “When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.” – Jeffrey Wright, Actor.


531. ‘Mommy, I’m hungry. Can we eat?”


532. What wine goes with Captain Crunch? – George Carlin


533. Real food doesn’t have ingredients, real food is ingredients.


534. “Coffee keeps me going until it’s acceptable to drink wine.”


535. There is no sincere love than the love of food.


536. Get you a bae who can cook.


537. “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” – Henry Ford, Founder Ford Motor Company


538. “Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.” – Frederic Raphael, Screenwriter.


539. Love the wine you’re with.


540. I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week. - Author: Rachel Nichols


541. “She is eating for two. I am drinking for three.”


542. Life is simple. Sleep, eat and jeep.


543. Don’t be upsetti, eat some spaghetti


544. “If you love your customer to death, you can’t go wrong.” – Graham Day, Lawyer and Corporate Director


545. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.


546. It’s wine time!


547. Happiness is..cooking with friends and eating together.


548. Toast to a week of yummy home-cooked meals! #weeknightdinners


549. “What you eat in private you wear in public.” – Unknown


550. “Life's too short to drink cheap wine...” – Cliff Hakim


551. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”


552. I always get so excited cooking chicken wings.


553. Table for three. Book a table at your favorite restaurant but make the reservation for three rather than two. Ask the restaurant to set the table with plates, and write “congratulations” on the plate at the third setting. Give your partner time to connect the dots and enjoy their reaction!


554. “Some hae meat and canna eat,


555. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou, Author.


556. “The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you’re hungry again.” – George Miller, Filmmaker.


557. “Good manners brightens up every table around you.”


558. Here’s to maturing like a fine wine. Happy 30th birthday!


559. “A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.”


560. Party of…: Announce your pregnancy by stating how you’ll soon ask for a restaurant table, “Party of…”. (via @picturemethisbylacie and @beauty.with.a.blog


561. ‘Er, well, yes, a little peckish, I suppose,’ said Arthur.


562. “I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: ‘If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money’s worth.’”


563. “Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.” - Giada De Laurentiis


564. Felt cute. Might keep cooking with you forever and ever.


565. “Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.” – Robert Kiyosaki, Author Rich Dad Poor Dad


566. “Life is wasted on the living.”


567. “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.”


568. For when the wine is in, the wit is out.


569. Save water, drink wine.


570. Where there is no wine there is no love.


571. “The restaurant business keeps you young.”


572. Hard work should be rewarded by good food.


573. “They took her radical politics as a kind of bourgeois self-deprecation, nothing very serious, and talked to her about restaurants or where to stay in Rome.”


574. “All great wine is enjoyed in the now.”


575. Just like wine, better with time.


576. “When the food’s this good, you just want to take a picture.”― Anthony T. Hincks


577. “Working in a restaurant teaches one what not to do.”


578. “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”


579. “To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.” – Anne Morrow Lindeberg, Author and Aviator


580. “Cooking well does not mean cooking fancy”- Julia Child


581. “When you go out and hit the sauce. It’s gotta be HEINZ.”― Anthony T. Hincks


582. If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.


583. “Good food ends with good talk.” – Geoffrey Neighbor


584. Let’s go wine tasting on the couch.


585. The lion is most handsome when looking for food.


586. People who love to eat are always the best people


587. “Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.” –Bobby Flay


588. “Ever tried to eat a clock? It’s very time consuming.”


589. “I like to eat cheese out of a bowl every day.” — Willow Smith


590. “In dog wine, I’ve only had two glasses.”


591. There is no greater love than the love of food.


592. “the man who has a favorite restaurant but not a favorite author. He’s picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favorite place to feed his mind! One”


593. ‘Why?’ asked Marvin dolefully.


594. “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful” – Jeff Bazos


595. “It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.” – Julia Child.


596. “To become a doctor, you need to go to medical school. To become a lawyer, you need a J.D. But to become a chef, you just put your time in at restaurants and learn by doing.” - Caroline Schiff


597. “Profit is the applause you get for taking care of your customers and creating a motivating environment for your employees.” – Unknown


598. “You are serving a customer, not a life sentence. Learn how to enjoy your work.” – Laurie McIntosh, Educator and Author.


599. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” – George Carlin


600. Happiness is humming while cooking.


601. Sheep are friends, not food


602. “The other night he took me to dinner. We were having a wonderful time when he remarked, “You can certainly tell the wives from the sweethearts.” I stopped licking the stream of butter dripping down my elbow and replied, “What kind of crack is that?” – Erma Bombeck, Author and Humorist.


603. “One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” - Luciano Pavarotti


604. Little Nugget: If you have a favorite fast food restaurant, incorporate it into your big reveal with an “our little nugget” onesie! (via @beauty.with.a.blog


605. “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.


606. “I could talk food all day. I love good food.” — Tom Brady


607. “I am a star. I am a galaxy.” – C.J. Redwine


608. “Eating at fast food outlets and other restaurants is simply a manifestation of the commodification of time coupled with the relatively low value many Americans have placed on the food they eat.”


609. “If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”


610. The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking.


611. “My idea of fast food is a mallard.” ― Ted Nugent


612. “Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner.”― Richie Norton,


613. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway, Author and Journalist


614. “Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.” - Gael Greene


615. “I went to a fancy French restaurant called Deja Vu. The headwaiter said, 'Don't I know you?'” Rod Schmidt


616. “Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.” – Benjamin Franklin.


617. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou


618. “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet van Horne


619. Good food makes for a good mood.


620. A guy who knows how to cook is really handsome


621. When I cannot eat, I talk about eating.


622. “My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music.”


623. “Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”


624. “Customer service is just a day in, day out ongoing, never ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.” – Leon Gorman, CEO of L.L. Bean.


625. Motherhood: Powered by love. Sustained by wine.


626. “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” – Henry Youngman


627. “Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I’m really feeling intimidated, I’ll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I’ll pick a year that’s missing and ask for that one.” – Alton Brown


628. “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”


629. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs, Co-founder Apple


630. “I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.” – Paul Simon


631. “Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young


632. “My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”


633. One does not need silver cutlery to eat delectable food.


634. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer


635. Athletes eat and train. They don't diet and exercise.


636. I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.


637. “The belly rules the mind.” - Spanish Proverb


638. Life is simple. Sleep, eat, and jeep.


639. “Don’t worry, I’m not gonna eat you.”


640. If music be the food of love, play on.


641. “There is no sincere love than the love of food.”


642. “Time, motion, and wine cause sleep.” — Ovid


643. “If music be the food of love, play on,


644. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job to make the customer experience a little bit better.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder Amazon


645. If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken. - Author: Danny Meyer


646. “The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.” – Tom Peters, Best-Selling Author


647. Ways to my heart: 1. Buy me food 2. Make me food 3. Be food


648. “You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”


649. “Having cake and eating it too!”


650. “I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza.”


651. “One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”


652. “Crabs may pinch but they won’t eat your face off.”


653. “Nah. I’m a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I’m fine.”


654. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” – Julia Child, Chef, Author, and Television Host.


655. Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is.


656. “Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.” - Maya Angelou


657. Tasty food brings eternal bliss


658. “My idea of fast food is a mallard.”


659. Save water, drink wine!


660. Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.


661. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. Burt Lancaster


662. “It’s a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it’s all about numbers, numbers, numbers.” – John Ilhan, Founder of Crazy John’s.


663. “To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”


664. “I went to a restaurant with the kids. The hostess said, 'How cute. Are these your kids?' I said, 'Nope. I am a representative for Trojan. These are customer complaints.'” Author Unknown


665. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child


666. “The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.” Bryan Miller


667. “It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they’ll keep coming back.” – Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s.


668. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” - Dave Carolan


669. The only thing I like better than talking about Food is eating


670. “You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Professional Speaker


671. “It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” – Federico Fellini, Director and Screenwriter.


672. This restaurant is seasoned with love.


673. Television + food, a match made in heaven.


674. “Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilized life.” – Adam Gopnik, Writer.


675. Working nine to wine.


676. “What motivates me is to leave a legacy. We need to learn to educate people and set an example.” - Cristina Martínez


677. No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.


678. Sleep until noon. Bake cookies. Pet puppies. Eat pie 👩🏼🍳


679. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.


680. “Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favourite recreations… eating with friends, the service, the ambience.” –LeRoy Neiman


681. “Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”


682. Life is better when you have free-range chicken. And wine.


683. “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”


684. “In Pakistan, anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.” Jimmy Fallon on “Saturday Night Live”


685. “I am not old but mellow like good wine.” – Stephen Phillips


686. “Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” - Marilyn Wann


687. “True chefs are beyond cooks; but, some cooks are chefs in the making.”


688. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien


689. If I share my food with you, it’s a big deal.


690. “Never eat at a place called ‘Moms’, but if the only other place in town has a sign that says ‘Eats’, go back to Moms.”


691. Nothing brings people together like good food and a good restaurant.


692. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach, Former NFL Quarterback


693. If you've got the wine, I've got the time.


694. I cook. My favorite thing to make is love.


695. “No matter how much I eat, the shoe still fits.” — Unknown


696. “A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.” – Gerald Asher


697. We go together like wine and cheese.


698. “When your wife is pregnant don’t eat the last ANYTHING”


699. “You’re like a fine wine, you keep getting better with age.”


700. “The ultimate debate: is it a cookout or a barbecue?”


701. “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”


702. Good food never fails in bringing people together.


703. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi


704. Zombies eat brains. You’re safe.


705. “If music be the food of love, play on.”


706. “With wine and hope, anything is possible.”


707. “Enjoy the wine, don’t spill the night…


708. “What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.” – Jeffery Dean Morgan


709. “Truth comes out in wine.” – Pliny the Elder


710. Who needs inspirational quotes when you can just drink wine?


711. “Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.” – Helen Rowland


712. “No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:


713. “Tell me what to eat, and I will tell you what you are.”


714. When you’re done admiring them, try eating them. 😋


715. “What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.”- Jeffrey Dean Morgan


716. Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.


717. “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” – Don Alden Adams, President Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania


718. “Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.”


719. “more than 21,000 restaurants in no fewer than 100 countries.1 Leadership ability— or more specifically the lack of leadership ability—was the lid on the McDonald brothers’ effectiveness.”


720. “Friendly makes sales – and friendly generates repeat business.” – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Speaker.


721. “In order to heal you must eat every meal”


722. In vino veritas (In wine there is truth).


723. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis, Conductor.


724. What a grape decision it was to have a wine night with you.


725. You know anything about this _ing restaurant business?


726. Good food is all around you.


727. I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.


728. I love to eat sweet-potato pancakes.


729. “Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.” – Kenneth Cranham


730. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”


731. “I’ll wine if I want to.”


732. “Today is all about you, my lovely wife. So let us dine at your favorite restaurant, open your favorite bottle of wine, and watch your favorite movie. Today is all about indulging in what you love! Happy birthday!”


733. “Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.”


734. “What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.” – Jeffrey Dean Morgan


735. ‘I don’t know,’ said Zaphod, ‘but when I find him, he’d better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him.‘”


736. “If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.” – Jim Rohn, Author and Motivational Speaker


737. “Life is too short to drink bad wine.” -Author Unknown


738. “In a restaurant business, you not only serve the community but serve it with taste.” –Unknown


739. “In wine, there's truth.” – Pliny the Elder


740. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”


741. “Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-­brothe­ls. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.” ― Frederic Raphael


742. “What could be more important than a little something to eat?”


743. “Every great restaurant menu is a great work of poetry.”


744. “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”


745. “The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh no, it’s on the house.” – Richard Branson


746. Winner winner, wine and dinner.


747. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker, Best-Selling Author


748. “I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, 'Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.'” Ellen DeGeneres


749. “Sometimes it’s okay to eat your feelings.”


750. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” –


751. Sorry—I’m in a relationship. With food.


752. “It’s not a food baby.”


753. Who needs friends when you can eat all the snacks you want?


754. “People who love to eat are always the best people.”


755. I’m on a seafood diet. I see food, I eat it.


756. Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.


757. “Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan


758. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him...the people who give you their food give you their heart.” - Cesar Chavez


759. “Restaurants with peppermills the size of fire extinguishers and big red menus with the entries spelled with f’s instead of s’s are always expensive.”


760. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” - Julia Child


761. “So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being.”


762. “Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.”


763. Love the wine you're with.


764. “When I create any dish, literally the first thing I think of is, what is the purpose behind this dish? Why am I putting this ingredient in it?” - Esther Choi


765. Good hair, good food and good run.


766. “Here is a simple but powerful rule: always give people more than what they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell, Author.


767. “Today’s forecast: sunny with a chance of wine.”


768. “Sen­sualit­y is the real food for the soul.” ― Lebo Grand


769. “Good food is a celebration of life.” ― Sophia Loren


770. “The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.” –John Walters


771. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.“ — Unknown


772. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.” – Sam Walton, Founder Walmart and Sam’s Club


773. I wheely like wine nights with you.


774. “Old age is like fine wine, the older the better.” – Unknown


775. “The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”


776. “Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large.”


777. “A bottle of wine was good company.” ― Ernest Hemingway


778. “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” – Lewis Carroll, Writer and Mathematician


779. “I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”


780. “I was at this restaurant. The sign said 'Breakfast Anytime.' So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.” Steven Wright


781. Once you understand the foundations of cooking.


782. “I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don’t. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I’m out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.” – Rachel Nichols


783. You are like a fine wine, aged to perfection. Happy birthday!


784. “Time, motion and wine cause sleep.” – Ovid


785. “It’s the most wine-derful time of the year.”


786. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”


787. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” - Sophia Loren


788. Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?


789. “If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store, and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.” – Bryan Miller, Television Writer.


790. “If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.” – Bryan Miller


791. You're a tough cookie.


792. Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.


793. Pour me some wine and slide on over.


794. “Everybody eats, B.” – Ace


795. ″‘Trouble with a long journey like this,’ continued the Captain, ‘is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you’re going to say next.‘”


796. “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” -James Beard, Chef and Author.


797. “Working nine to wine.”


798. Do you smell what The Tulip is cooking? 🌷


799. Either give me more wine or leave me alone. ~Rumi


800. “My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”


801. “Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” – Jo Brand


802. “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard


803. Worry is today’s mouse eating tomorrow’s cheese.


804. There is nothing more romantic than Italian food.


805. “Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” - Voltaire


806. You age like fine wine.


807. A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.


808. “Remember, the best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” – Napoleon Hill, Author “Think and Grow Rich”


809. “The story so far:


810. “As long as we have wine, family holidays will be fine.”


811. “The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.” - Jerry Saltz


812. I was always a junk food person, still am.


813. “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”


814. “Food is romantic. Soul. It's about putting everything in your heart onto the plate. Hoping it's perceived well. Honestly, it's about passion. It's about love.” - Hillary Sterling


815. “Beer is made by men, wine by God.”


816. ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’ (1980)


817. “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” – Julia Child


818. “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”


819. “The way I see it, our fates appear to be intertwined.”


820. “If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.” – Anthony Bourdain.


821. “Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.”


822. Let thy food be thy medicine.


823. “Love the wine you’re with.”


824. “Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They’ll just walk away.” – Marilyn Suttle, Success Coach


825. Come eat me up, I’ll pay thy toll


826. “Service, in short, is not what you do, but who you are. It is a way of living that you need to bring to everything you do, if you are to bring it to your customer interactions.” – Betsy Sanders, Executive and Speaker.


827. Laughter is brightest where food is best. – Irish Proverb


828. “A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”


829. Part of the secret to success in life is to eat what you like.


830. “I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.” - Jose Andres Puerta


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


832. “The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Philosopher.


833. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart.”


834. Restaurant blessed.


835. In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.


836. “Thoughts aren't real; there's a huge difference between eating the words on a menu and eating the actual food.”


837. In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders. - Author: Jimmy Fallon


838. “Save water, drink wine.”


839. “I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.” – Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress.


840. ‘Okay, baby, hold tight,’ said Zaphod. ‘We’ll take in a quick bit at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.’”


841. “In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”


842. “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” – Mother Teresa


843. “If someone said, ‘You’ve got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,’ I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.” – Danny Meyer


844. The only way to looove these pies is to eat them ❤


845. “I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.”– Burt Lancaster


846. “I don’t know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.” – Erma Bombeck


847. “When your wife is pregnant, don’t eat the last, ANYTHING.”


848. “Being a boss, it comes at a cost. You have to be really, really driven but I wouldn’t trade it for the world because now I really get to enjoy this thing that we call life. I’m doing what I love to do, and it doesn’t feel like work.” - Erica Barrett


849. Remember, I’m here for you. And I have wine.


850. “Wherever you go there's always a crying baby.”


851. “We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”


852. Cooking and eating ain’t so bad…


853. “When you wait for a server in a restaurant, doesn't that make you the waiter?” Author Unknown


854. “Good food will always welcome you back with a smile.” – Anthony T. Hincks, Author.


855. There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.


856. “I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.” Erma Bombeck


857. “For when the wine is in, the wit is out.” – Thomas Becon


858. My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.


859. Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. - Author: Dick Gregory


860. “I’m in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I’d let just about everybody in except the English.”


861. “Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.” - Alice Waters | Food Quotes - Sophisticated Gourmet


862. 6 Fried chicken cooked to perfection


863. I cook with cheese. Sometimes I even add food to it.


864. “We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn’t want to just sell shoes. I wasn’t even into shoes — but I was passionate about customer service.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos


865. “You’ve always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that’s when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.” – Michael Symon, Chef and Television Host.


866. “Anybody who doesn’t think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.”


867. “Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.”


868. “’Hey, Earthman? You hungry kid?’ said Zaphod’s voice.


869. The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch.


870. “The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.” – John Walters, Broadcaster.


871. “Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ “I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.” – Dick Gregory


872. I get way too much happiness from good food.


873. In dog wine, I’ve only had two glasses.


874. “We're doing our best when we're in the present moment.”


875. “Knowledge is the food of the soul.”


876. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein


877. Beware the hobby that eats - Benjamin Franklin.


878. Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi


879. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.


880. “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” - M.F.K. Fisher


881. “Reem’s is a place where you can imagine a different way for the world to run, where those in the margins are at the center.” - Reem Assil


882. Life is simple: eat, sleep, play basketball.


883. “Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.” – Chip Bell, Founder of Chip Bell Group.


884. Patience is the secret to good food


885. “Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”


886. “A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.” – Warner LeRoy


887. Don’t go chasing rainbows. Go chasing wine 🥂🍷


888. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” –Charles M. Shulz


889. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti, Store Owner.


890. “Smile, there’s wine.”


891. “Friendship’s the wine of life.”


892. “There is no sincere love than the love of food.” –George Bernard Shaw


893. Restaurant obsessed.


894. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


895. “Talk does not cook rice.” – Chinese Proverb


896. “Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.”


897. “We just don’t make and sell food.” – Unknown


898. “The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.” –George Orwell


899. “A good restaurant server is an attaché to good health.”


900. “If you’re not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.” – Jan Calzon, former CEO of SAP Group.


901. “The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” — Peter De Vries


902. Happy birthday to my friend who ages like wine.


903. “I love the story of the salesman who sat looking through the window of a hotel restaurant. Outside raged a blinding snowstorm. “Do you think the roads will be clear enough in the morning to travel?” he asked his waiter. “That depends,” the waiter replied. “Are you on salary or commission?”


904. I live, breathe, and eat cars.


905. “There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get the most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that, my friend, is dining.” – Yuan Mei, Painter and Poet.


906. “It’s amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that’s hot. Where there’s a lot of knives. You’re trusting your well-being with someone you’ve never before met or known.” – Alexandra Guarnaschelli, Chef and Television Host.


907. “Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.”


908. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”


909. “A great working restaurant is a great working family.”


910. “I love wines, except when I’m dieting.” – Raymond Burr


911. “It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” – Federico Fellini


912. “I wasn’t going to eat it, I was just going to taste it.”


913. “It’s wine o’clock somewhere.”


914. Meals and memories are made here.


915. “The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” Peter De Vries


916. Remember, a smart cookie doesn’t have a crumbling attitude.


917. Nothing better than a poolside glass of wine.


918. I just realized I have a passion for not cooking.


919. “What wine goes with Captain Crunch?” ― George Carlin


920. “When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese soufflé.” Edmund G. Love


921. “My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.”


922. “I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.” Paul Simon


923. “Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”


924. If music be the food of love, play on,


925. Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi


926. “I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.” - Erma Bombeck


927. ‘”Everybody with me gotta eat. Say you grace with me.”‘


928. Birthdays are nature's way to eat more cake. Enjoy son!


929. “The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, ‘Could I get you your check?’ and we answered, ‘How about the menu first?'”


930. “Don't eat yellow snow.”


931. “I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ‘Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.'” – Ellen DeGeneres


932. Netflix is better with wine and cheese.


933. “A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.” – Warner LeRoy, Businessman.


934. Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.


935. “I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.”


936. ″‘If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you’re in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner...’


937. There’s no love more sincere than the love of food.


938. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare


939. “At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.”


940. “Don’t be rude! Donate some food!”


941. I have novinophobia: the fear of running out of wine.


942. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” – Ray Kroc, Founder McDonald’s


943. “What wine goes with Captain Crunch?” – George Carlin


944. “You are what what you eat eats.”


945. “I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still.”


946. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.


947. “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” - John Gunther


948. “I haven’t seen a better business than the restaurant business. You earn through fulfilling people’s appetites, needs, and dreams.”-Unknown


949. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ~ Rumi


950. If you like good food, cook it yourself.


951. Trails before ales, pines before wines, lakes before cakes.


952. “There is no food for a lazy man except the mother runs a restaurant.”


953. “Love, like wine, gets better with time.”


954. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” - Lucille Ball


955. “I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.”


956. “In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” - Julia Child


957. “In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.”


958. “One of the reasons that people enjoy coming to a great restaurant is that when an extraordinary meal is placed in front of them, they feel honored, respected, and even a little bit loved.” – Marcus Samuelsson, Chef.


959. It takes a lot of beer to make good wine. – Lou Preston


960. The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. — George Carlin


961. “My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.” – Dolly Parton, Singer and Philanthropist.


962. “There is a spiritual aspect to our lives — when we give, we receive — when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!” – Ben Cohen, Co-Founder Ben & Jerry’s


963. Sunset + beach + friends + food = Perfection.


964. “I’ve never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.”


965. “Opening up a restaurant is a great way to meet your neighbors.”


966. “A sale is not something you pursue; it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.” – Unknown


967. Ways to my heart: 1. Buy me wine 2. Pour me wine 3. Be wine


968. “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”


969. It’s restaurant o’clock.


970. “One who is fed on promises eats from an empty bowl.” —Marsha Hinds


971. One of the most meditative times of my day is when I’m cooking.


972. "I like girls who eat Carrots. ~ Louis Tomlinson” ― One Direction


973. Bring a compass. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.


974. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” —Julia Child


975. “One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”


976. "Restriction is the gateway to eating disorders."— Chevese Turner


977. “Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.” – Karl Marx


978. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp


979. “A food’s value is based on how good it tastes.” — Homaro Cantu


980. “Bring a compass. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.“


981. In the cookie of life friends are the chocolate chips. -Unknown


982. Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.


983. “Dinosaurs eat man―woman inherits the earth.” – Dr. Ellie Sattler


984. “The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes of its secrets.”


985. “Great wine is always enhanced by great food.” – Kenneth Cranham


986. “No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” - Julia Child


987. “You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure.”


988. it’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!


989. “Leading people is like cooking. Don’t stir too much. It annoys the


990. A mellow sunset is like drinking good wine on a balmy summer day.


991. "Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt.” – H.M Ward


992. "Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young, Night Thoughts


993. A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper.


994. “Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.” – Colin Powell


995. “If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.”


996. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” — Robert Fripp


997. “Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?” – John Heywood.


998. “I get way too much happiness from good food.” — Elizabeth Olsen


999. You can never be a smart cookie if you have a crumbly attitude.


1000. “When life gives you lemons, sell them to buy wine.” ~ Unknown

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