Eating out can be a fun and exciting experience, but sometimes all of the options can leave you overwhelmed. To help reduce the stress of picking a restaurant, we’ve compiled 100 quotes about restaurants that can help get your stomach growling and your feet walking to the nearest place with a griddle.

Whether it’s classic comfort food or something new and daring, you’re sure to find some delectable inspiration here!

100 Quotes For Foodies & Restaurant Owners

  1. I don’t know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need. – José Andrés
  2. Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He’s picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favorite place to feed his mind! – Jm Rohn
  3. Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable. – James Rouse
  4. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Adams
  5. Although the skills aren’t hard to learn, finding happiness and finding satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. – Mario Batali
  6. Many people don’t know our famous ‘soup kitchen’ episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York. – Jason Alexander
  7. Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr
  8. If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business. – Anthony Bourdain
  9. I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. – David Byrne
  10. Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. – Og Mandino
  11. The restaurant life consists in giving, and in serving others. – Henry Drummond
  12. One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough – you have to be a great businessman. – Wolfgang Puck
  13. Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. – Elbert Hubbard
  14. The customer experience is the next competitive battleground. – Jerry Gregoire
  15. The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world. – José Andrés
  16. Here is a simple but powerful rule: always give people more than what they expect to get. – Nelson Boswell
  17. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
  18. I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine-dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They’re going to say, ‘Why not us?’ – Danny Meyer
  19. Coming together is a beginning… Keeping together is progress… Working together is a success. – Henry Ford
  20. There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. – Anthony Bourdain
  21. Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. – Ralph Marston
  22. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi
  23. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill
  24. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz
  25. Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up. – Gordon Ramsey
  26. It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. – Zig Ziglar
  27. The restaurant is the hue of the summer sky, yet here and there are colors of the sweetest of meadow blooms. – Angela Abraham
  28. Believe you can and you are halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
  29. In the buzz of the restaurant, words can be challenging to catch, yet your body language and your deep soul are so easy to hear. – Angela Abraham
  30. I think every chef should have a food truck. It’s a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting future restaurantgoers. – José Andrés
  31. In Italy it’s full-on stardom when you’re a cyclist – eating in restaurants for free, it’s great. – David Millar
  32. We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Einstein
  33. There’s a common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It’s not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it’s like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. – David Chang
  34. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow
  35. You’ve always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that’s when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. – Michael Symon
  36. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
  37. Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef. – Thomas Keller
  38. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson
  39. I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. – David Bowie
  40. Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened, and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself. – Gordon Ramsey
  41. I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants. – Colonel Sanders
  42. It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. – Federico Fellini
  43. Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one’s fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass. – Jacques Pépin
  44. In a restaurant, choose a table near a waiter. – Jewish Proverb
  45. It’s amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that’s hot. Where there are a lot of knives. You’re trusting your well-being with someone you’ve never before met or known. – Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  46. I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said I gotta use that one. – Paul Simon
  47. In a Pyongyang restaurant, don’t ever ask for a doggie bag. – Christopher Hitchens
  48. You’ve always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that’s when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. – Michael Symon
  49. A cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. – Morey Amsterdam
  50. If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. – Anthony Bourdain
  51. I was at this restaurant. The sign said ‘Breakfast Anytime.’ So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance. – Steven Wright
  52. A restaurant is a fantasy–a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. – Warner LeRoy
  53. Let’s face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that’s different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I’m going to be a better chef. – Thomas Keller
  54. I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still. – Calvin Trillin
  55. There are advantages to being a star, though. You can always get a table in a full restaurant. – Ingrid Bergman
  56. There’s a bond among the kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. – Gordon Ramsey
  57. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. – Helen Rowland
  58. In America, it’s a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don’t listen. – Chet Baker
  59. If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, ‘What’s your biggest problem right now? It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They’re having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations. – Anthony Bourdain
  60. The restaurants are close here in Salzburg. They don’t really have nightlife in the wintertime. – Cecilia Bartoli
  61. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, and the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. – Alain Ducasse
  62. A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. – Warner LeRoy
  63. I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It’s his desire. It’s that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn’t have it … I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it. – Mario Batali
  64. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, and I go Fridays. – Henny Youngman
  65. Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? – George Carlin
  66.  One of the reasons that people enjoy coming to a great restaurant is that when an extraordinary meal is placed in front of them, they feel honored, respected, and even a little bit loved. – Marcus Samuelsson
  67. Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn’t eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon. – Liam Payne
  68. Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we’re doing the right thing. – Eric Ripert
  69. I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant…because I believe in myself. – Hannibal Buress
  70. Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. – Anthony Bourdain
  71. Murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. – Peter De Vries
  72. One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough – you have to be a great businessman. – Wolfgang Puck
  73. Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it. – Chris Brogan
  74. I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that. – José Andrés
  75. Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feelings, ethnic feelings, personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, and your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. – Anthony Bourdain
  76. Customers don’t always know what they want. The decline in coffee drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren’t enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call the third place.. a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn’t know they had. – Howard Schultz
  77. The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, and the country. – Alain Ducasse
  78. I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. – James Beard
  79. A restaurant is a fantasy– a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. – Warner LeRoy
  80. Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat. – Jamie Oliver
  81. France eats more consciously, more intelligently than any other nation. – M. F. K. Fisher
  82. A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food. – Philip Rosenthal
  83. Bacon is like a good pair of Levi’s– it never goes out of style. – Michael Symon
  84. I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don’t like serving; I don’t like getting people ketchup. – Chris Pine
  85. Italian food is all about ingredients and it’s not fussy and it’s not fancy. -Wolfgang Puck
  86. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. – Catherine Deneuve
  87. If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business. – Anthony Bourdain.
  88. When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelet. – Bobby Flay
  89. America’s most dangerous export was, is, and always will be our fast-food outlets. – Anthony Bourdain
  90. One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’ – Alan King
  91. There’s a bond among the kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. – Gordon Ramsey
  92. I live in New York and I’m in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that’s why they’re successful. – Bobby Flay
  93. As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, and foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup. – José Andrés
  94. Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant. – Bobby Flay
  95. If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. – Anthony Bourdain.
  96. I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it. – Billy Gibbons
  97. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing. – James Beard
  98. Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. – Arundhati Roy
  99. Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not-that-good lobster. – Ferran Adrià
  100. I absolutely love low-key restaurants. – Andy Cohen

With its unique offerings, diverse menus, and an array of atmospheres, it’s easy to understand why restaurants are so popular. From cozy cafés to elaborate eateries, the range of experiences possible in the restaurant world is seemingly endless.

And with a host of inspiring quotes about food, ambiance, and dining experiences, it’s clear to see why restaurant adventures bring us some of life’s greatest joys!

So whatever type of restaurant inspires you or has fed your soul – let these hundred quotes serve as a reminder that delicious food makes life full of flavor! Bon appetite!

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