"For the last 10 years, Boston has seemed to ignore Davide, but now with a huge turnaround with the food and the staff, it's got every right to return to its former glory."
"I've worked in restaurants, and I will never. Restaurants are hard."
"Most of our money so far is coming from other sources, but the restaurant is actually fairly profitable."
"If we don't see that 120 billion dollar aid package go to restaurants, we will see an extinction event of about 65 to 70% of restaurants that just won't make it."
"I think we will come out of this; we will look back 20 years from now on a 10-year period post-COVID-19 that we will call the golden age of restaurants."
"We know this is extremely difficult and this is through no fault of the restaurant owners."
"If we don't treat restaurants like family today, they might not be around to treat us like family tomorrow."
"It's hard to think of a bigger restaurant success story over the last decade than Shake Shack."
"Restaurants support small farms, it's about quality and building relationships."
"Nearly a third of the 2,800 businesses in New York City have permanently closed their restaurants."
"Half of independent restaurants are going to close... unless our government actually passes the relief act."
"Opening up over 100 restaurants, being able to keep nearly 50% of those open for an extended period of time, and then maintaining a high level of quality across all of them, that is a nearly impossible feat."
"Westminster, London: The first female British chef to win three Michelin stars, Claire Smith, sold out three months of bookings in 20 minutes when her restaurant said it would reopen from lockdown."
"We're not going back tomorrow, we are relaunching this restaurant."
"I'm going to run it like a restaurant. Next time you come you're going to see some staff changes. Promise me. I give you my word."
"Most consumers have no idea that every time you tip in a restaurant in most states, it cuts against the worker's wage rather than being something on top of the wage."
"Cheesecake Factory can double and I believe Dave & Buster's can triple."
"Our new restaurant just got one Michelin star. That's crazy!"
"Foodies have come up with an idea to help restaurants survive the crisis: pay now and eat later."
"Tesla filed for a trademark to enter the restaurant business."
"I think companies like Chipotle, Starbucks, Texas Roadhouse, McDonald's... have done really well for the past two years."
"A once-thriving barbecue place with a 3 million yen investment operating for just 4 years is now closing its doors."
"Restaurants would be empowered if they're doing takeout food right now but it seems like not because these delivery companies have crazy contracts."
"We want to buy your restaurant. Wait, what? Really?"
"At a restaurant, if everything on the menu sucks, they'll close."
"The kind of franchising that we mostly see in the restaurant industry today is what's called business format franchising."
"You can very much get into the restaurant business for under five thousand dollars."
"If we get this Michelin star, it means bigger tips, bigger payday. Ching ching!"
"There is no situation where you can assault a restaurant worker, period." - Andrew Ridgie
"It just became too expensive to run a restaurant, and McDonald's had to give in."
"Businesses are saying it's basically the killer businesses, restaurants are saying they're gonna close."
"Did the fundamentals of the Cheesecake Factory get better or worse since January? Obviously, the answer is worse."
"For too long, the Ohio government has imposed unfair restrictions with KFC restaurants."
"The most revolutionary development in the restaurant industry in the past 50 years."
"More and more restaurants are embracing the locavore movement by sourcing a lot of their fresh produce from local farmers."
"You are going to sell things a little bit cheaper when you sell to the restaurants, but that's okay."
"The most rewarding part to working in a restaurant... is when that team vibes and you create that family."
"You've probably heard the crazy stat that 70 of restaurants fail within the first five years of operations."
"She's a trailblazer for women in the restaurant world."
"I love working in the restaurant industry because you are introduced to so many different people."
"I'm the owner of my own restaurant. It's my name on the sign. I control every aspect of the business."
"Great restaurants have to be consistent."
"New York's lost at least a thousand restaurants since COVID."
"You have to remember prior to the pandemic I say this is a restaurant good you know my pop had me working in places when I was 12."
"Texas Roadhouse has been an incredible performer."
"The restaurant industry is currently the number one fastest growing private sector employer in the United States of America."
"The restaurant business is the last meritocracy."
"It might seem that the rich and famous are suddenly discovering that fast casual restaurants are an ideal way to diversify their portfolios."
"The last group of entrepreneurial refugees in 2023 has emerged as part of the third wave of restaurant closures."
"We decided instead that rather than to sell Jack's to the highest bidder, I persuaded Jason to create an experimental legacy project aimed at creating economic mobility for restaurant workers."