“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.” TwoSometimesStatesSchoolJobsOpportunitySportsBlackTeacherFourYouthHigh SchoolBaseballBlockRestaurantsAspireJerseyNew JerseyElevatorsOperatorsAll StateJob OpportunitiesBlack Youth Author:Monte Irvin
“I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.” TwoThreeCitiesFourDaughterBusyActiveRestaurants Author:Geoffrey Zakarian
“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsDoeShowsActorsStarsFiveFourCostNormalEatingHundredDollarsDinnerRestaurantsExpensiveFiftyHotelRelativeTicketsSeventiesBroadwaySpectators Author:Ferran Adria
“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.” IfsMadeTogetherDifferencesWonderFourChildhoodFoodBrotherMomEatingCookingRestaurantsCulinaryRecognizingOlder BrotherEating AloneRestaurant BusinessEating Together Book:Bouchon Source: Bouchon
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."” SaidHumorFunnyHoursFourEastRestaurantsGasWaiterOctopus Author:Frank Carson
“I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.” FirstsJobsNightNextFourWorstQuittingRestaurantsThievesNext DayI QuitDensJanitor Author:Wendell Pierce