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Quotes About Restaurant

Afterword) Years [after the book became a success], a young man pulled me aside before a book event. He said he loved how in Fight Club I wrote about waiters tainting food. He asked me to sign a book and said he worked in a five-star restaurant where they monkey with celebrities' food all the time. "Margaret Thatcher," he said, "has eaten my sperm." He held up one hand, fingers spread, and said, "At least five times.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
heads together. I tell the waiter, give us clean food, please. Please, don't be doing any trash to the stuff we order. In that case, sir
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I wonder what job arises in people's lives that causes them to come to this restaurant to 'hire' a milkshake?" That was an interesting way to think about the problem.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The motorcycle crashed into the wine cellar of the hotel's restaurant. There must be a hundred broken bottles of vintage wine flowing down a drain in the floor.
~ Clive Cussler
Desmond looked up from his plate. "I haven't eaten this good since…" He couldn't think of it. "They should inspect this place all the time.
~ Colson Whitehead
after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure (...)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
~ Larry David
he began, over dinner at Cantler's, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near
~ Laura Lippman
Kobe beef hamburger on the menu at Nasu Blanca—are
~ Laura Lippman
Vaccaro's was
~ Laura Lippman
thought we could order in from the Ambassador. Oh, and I
~ Laura Lippman
Walking through the resturant,looking like six feet three inches of branded,terrifying sex appeal was Alexander.The other patrons seemed to either shrink in his presence or,and this was mostly the female clientele,stare covetously while their dates slumped in their chairs unable to compete with the godforce walking past.Even the staff stopped what they were doing and had the good sense to look nervous.
~ Laura Wright
i'm not picking mcdonald's, and i'm not picking chinese. i'm sorry, but i'm picking some place really good, cuz if they're gonna give us bad news, they're gonna have to do it over a super nice meal.
~ lauren myracle
This phrase did not have the ring of verisimilitude because I am famously bad at math. If I'm in charge of tipping at a restaurant, the waiter will either fall to his knees in gratitude or slash my tires. There ain't no Mr. In Between.
~ Celia Rivenbark
I don't always go out for Mexican, but when I do I spoil my appetite with free tortilla chips.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
egg tart, I watched a waiter count up all our dishes
~ Grace Lin
El Torito rescued the meals from the mythologizing amnesia of Southern California and introduced them to areas where customers didn't know how to pronounce the meals they waited for in hour-long lines.
~ Gustavo Arellano
Farnsworth's innovation of offering multiple items on one plate, but added even more combinations. Someone at the restaurant numbered the different options, making it easier for non-Mexicans to order a plate instead of pronouncing each item on the menu, and the—pick your favorite: #1? #5? #15?—numbered combo plate became de rigueur.
~ Gustavo Arellano
I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.
~ Guy Fieri
The waiter brought him a bowl of gumbo. Clete dipped the end of his po'boy sandwich into the bowl and began eating, drinking from his Bloody Mary, filling his mouth with French bread, oysters, lettuce and tomatoes, red sauce, and mayonnaise, stopping only long enough to wipe his chin with a white napkin.
~ James Lee Burke
Restaurant, hey. That's what I've got. Whole goddam country lives selling hot dogs to each other.
~ James M. Cain
She may have found a little more than peace. There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared, as she resolved that the restaurant must open today, as advertised, and that it must not fail.
~ James M. Cain
Having the entire team support the philosophy would ensure consistency in the team's work and maintain credibility within our organization. It's for these reasons that the leadership development program at Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company
~ James M. Kouzes
Witherspoon sat in the restaurant part of O'Lunney's among the Times Square tourists, watching the cops at the bar.
~ James Patterson