60 Boffo Selected Quotes By - Danny Meyer | Status Free Download
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Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.
— Danny Meyer
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
— Danny Meyer
Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
— Danny Meyer
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
— Danny Meyer
Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.
— Danny Meyer
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
— Danny Meyer
I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.
— Danny Meyer
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
— Danny Meyer
The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.
— Danny Meyer
Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.
— Danny Meyer
You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.
— Danny Meyer
During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.
— Danny Meyer
The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.
— Danny Meyer
A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
— Danny Meyer
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
— Danny Meyer
I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.
— Danny Meyer
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
— Danny Meyer
The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.
— Danny Meyer
Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
— Danny Meyer
I throw 14 parties a week.
— Danny Meyer
The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.
— Danny Meyer
I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.
— Danny Meyer
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
— Danny Meyer
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
— Danny Meyer
People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.
— Danny Meyer
Good service means never having to ask for anything.
— Danny Meyer
'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.
— Danny Meyer
I think that Shake Shack wouldn't exist had it not been for Twitter. I don't think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn't have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos.
— Danny Meyer
London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.
— Danny Meyer
Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
— Danny Meyer
The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.
— Danny Meyer
Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
— Danny Meyer
A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.
— Danny Meyer
It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
— Danny Meyer
I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
— Danny Meyer
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
— Danny Meyer
People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.
— Danny Meyer
Hospitality knows no gender or race.
— Danny Meyer
My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.
— Danny Meyer
A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
— Danny Meyer
You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
— Danny Meyer
There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
— Danny Meyer
More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
— Danny Meyer
I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.
— Danny Meyer
Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
— Danny Meyer
What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.
— Danny Meyer
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
— Danny Meyer
Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
— Danny Meyer
When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
— Danny Meyer
If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.
— Danny Meyer
My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
— Danny Meyer
How can you franchise hospitality?
— Danny Meyer
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
— Danny Meyer
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
— Danny Meyer
I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'
— Danny Meyer
I think that any business that thinks that the transaction is 'you give me money and I give you food, next, you give me money and I give you food, next,' without understanding that people deeply want to feel restored is in danger.
— Danny Meyer
At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
— Danny Meyer
I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
— Danny Meyer
I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.
— Danny Meyer
One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
— Danny Meyer
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