Quotes About Hospitality

My absolute favorite hors d'oeuvres are tiny white lily flour flat Smithfield ham biscuits... bite-size and delicious. And being southern, I would never have a New York party without my signature pimento cheese spread.

When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

Quite often, we're swamped with friends. My house is known as Hotel Morrissey, which is quite handy whenever I need dog-sitters for Tiggy. She's my tiny little rescue dog, the size of both of my feet put together.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Tip your drag queens, bartenders, and don't rub your chopsticks together at the sushi restaurant. Also, just in general, don't be a dirtbag human.

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

I didn't realize people tip for take-out.

You don't have to tip anybody, anywhere, anything. You do so only because you want to, in appreciation for service well-rendered.

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

Any restaurant that I go around in Philadelphia, I tip very well. And I'm very respectful.

I always make my bed when I get up so it looks fresh and inviting, although the rest of the house might, at times, be a tip.

I'm a very generous tipper for my hairdresser and nail technician, and for staff in restaurants who have given a good service. I will always leave a tip, even for bad service.

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.

I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you - which is so different from London. Maybe I'll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I'll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home.

To be honest, the first thing that hits you when you step off the plane in L.A. is just how eager people are to help you out here - or, at least, that's what I've found.

As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.

It would be nice to be a piece of toast. Everyone likes a piece of toast, don't they? No one is ever sad when you offer them a piece of toast, and if I could be that to someone, that would be nice.

You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody's like, 'Oh come on in!'

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

I think food brings people together, and it makes people happy.

I'll never have a house party again. You stand around for ages worried that nobody's coming and the next minute you're queuing for your own toilet while someone you've never met is asking you if you know whose party this is.