“We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.” Quote by Anthony Bourdain
“Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first.” PeopleYearsFirstsKidsGuyFightingCollegeShapesBiggerAthleteFormerWrestler Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.” ThinkingShouldMoralPaidWorkersRestaurants Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.” DreamEatingWorkersRestaurantsLiving Wage Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.” ThinkingShouldIncreaseMinimumMinimum Wage Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.” ThinkingShouldHonestBeing HonestKitchen Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.” YearsHas BeensMatterFactsIndustryBuiltRestaurantsImmigrantsDubiousUnderpaidService Industry Author:Anthony Bourdain
“If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.” PeopleIfsProblemAmericaAsksRight NowFindingsEnormousCooksOperationsRestaurantsChefStaffing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?” WayNeedsYearsWellsCountryHardAmericaMoralMiddleCrimeIndustryRight NowTaxesWelcomeAcknowledgeMiddle GroundPaying TaxesRefunds Author:Anthony Bourdain
“On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.” NeedsProblemHandsCompanyCuttingGrowingHugeMajorsTreatsCrisisPopulationJailHookPharmaceuticalNarcoticsPharmaceutical CompaniesMoralizing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.” ShowsDifficultProveVenezuela Author:Anthony Bourdain