Restaurant Opening Quotes

#1. I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#2. Q: Are you guys shooting a movie?
A: No. We're opening a mid-priced Italian restaurant.
Q: Huh?
A: Yes of course we're shooting a movie.
Q: What's the movie about?
A: It's a documentary about human stupidity.
Q: Can I be in your movie?
A: We'd be stupid not to put you in it.

Jesse Andrews

#3. I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Michael Jordan

#4. I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

Bobby Flay

#5. One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Tom Colicchio

#6. Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Bobby Flay

#7. Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

Bridget Hall