Quotes About Hospitality

When you're around people, act like you like them.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

I used to work in Starbucks.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

Every meal I want to start with soup.

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

I haven't been invited to anyone's for dinner since the show began. I like eating with friends in restaurants instead. You all choose what to eat, have a starter, main and dessert, and then you go home.

Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there's no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel.

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

Can I get a mochaccino?': a statement that, for many, is worse than any number of nails down a blackboard. Not on account of the coffee - most of us drink Ventis aplenty these days - rather it's the 'can I get?' - three words that regularly top the list of British bugbears.

When I go to the gas station or the restaurant, people still come up and say hi.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house.

I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

I always take an Alastair Sawday guide. I stayed in three or four places in India that they had recommended, and every one of them was wonderful.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.