88 Quotes About Restaurants

The world around him began to change. Voicesbecame inaudible and his gaze was stuck on the manon the ground. Elijah was taken out of that state byVanessa’s voice.

Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember).

The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been "deskilled" can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

Do you want to be made love to to the energy of a fast food restaurant or to that of a 5-star dining experience? Truth is, we make love to the energy we can afford, and most people can only afford the energy of a fast food restaurant.

Our ToastNot to the Future, nor to the Past;No drink of Joy or Sorrow;We drink alone to what will last;Memories on the Morrow.Let us live as Old Time passes;To the Present let Bohemia bow.Let us raise on high our glassesTo Eternity--the ever-living Now.

I heard the tinkle of the welcome bells above the restaurant entrance. Probably an out-of-towner who didn’t know that the restaurant was closed on Sundays and the only culinary activity afoot was a baking class on steroids.

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.