Quotes About Hospitality

The message to the stranger is clear: come right in and disturb our perfect lives. You are the Christ for us today.

More and more, people have begun to chant the economic mantras of Louis XIV's France. A successful restaurant has to do more than serve good food at a good price: it has to create an environment. It's not enough to offer customers a good product: you have to make them feel special by providing a hefty dose of emotion and drama along with the merchandise.

Mrs Cutler, who had taken an immediate fancy to the elegant French lady, now appeared with a tray of strawberries and cream.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. —Hebrews 13:2

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.

Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

Ils n'étaient pas bavards. Ils n'avaient plus l'habitude de partager leurs repas. Le protocole ne fut donc pas très au point et tous deux eurent du mal à se dépêtrer de leur solitude...Mais c'était des gens bien élevés et ils firent un effort pour porter beau. S'égayèrent, trinquèrent, évoquèrent le quartier.

caballero" to the waiters. The last guy I saw doing that was Manolito in the High Chaparral.

He might know things Meg wanted to learn, but he would never be as thorough about cleaning the salt and butter off her hands after movie night.

Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come string and beans in your kitchen.

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37

Alone in our place I was a guest.

Make yourself at home… clean my kitchen.

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

My favorite hotels are anything Aman, because their properties are always so beautiful.