5 Quotes by Rick Blount

We're constrained on many levels. We subcontract our bread, but because of labor limitations at the bakery, we can't get our signature bread. So we're just taking regular French bread. We don't have enough manpower to cut our own fish, so we are subcontracting the actual filleting. It's a lot easier for us to judge the quality of a whole fish than it is to judge the quality of a fillet. But we don't have that luxury right now.

My grandfather loved wine and built a beautiful cellar. We did everything but sing hymns to them.

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, we have to go this route.

If our employees had the resources to solve their own problems, they would. If they are going to be able to help us, we have to help them first.

The idea of New Orleans being a destination city is a huge part of our business, maybe as high as 80 percent.