Quotes About Hospitality

Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face?

Three things that always bring a smile to my face: making guacamole for my friends, getting pedicures with my mom, exploring an airport I've never been in.

McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

Smile. Be open and welcoming.

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Friends stranger

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

For the 21st birthday of an older brother, a special train had brought London visitors to a banquet at which they consumed 240 quarts of soup, 60 partridges, and 50 pheasants, served by white-gloved footmen in blue-and-silver uniforms.

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. A little beef and bingo at the Nugents'.

The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

Mom's smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know just how much was being offered.

I am going to host Thanksgiving myself and instead of a turkey I'm serving a big human butt.

Grace would be a poor host indeed to exclude anyone.