restaurant

“Fundamentally, like restaurants are like, you know, sort of like a two out of 10 opportunity. It's like one of the worst types of businesses you can try to start.”

“That means that the next 10 years, you know, very easily, you know, hopefully in our lifetime, Restaurants are just going to go for, you know, a lot of restaurants are going to go from you walk in and there's just like a bunch of people who are sort of disgrun…”

“I think there are going to be a bunch of interesting voice services for everything from restaurants to HVAC companies to dental reception that are just like answer the phone.”

“It doesn't take that much more work to run a fifteen million dollar a year restaurant than it does a five million dollar a year restaurant.”

“The fashion of restaurants is not dissimilar to the fashion of jeans, right? Like, we want skinny jeans, then fat jeans, then skinny jeans, then fat jeans, and it kind of the pendulum shifts back and forth. I think for a little while there, restaurants started…”

“I don't believe there should be a dress code in a restaurant. I think that you're there to invite people as they are”

“I don't think you can succeed financially unless you are willing to be as creative in pursuit of making money as you are in pursuit of the experience you're building for people.”

“Restaurants suck as a business. You know, 10% operating margins. You're working morning, afternoon, and night. You're open on weekends. There's no let up.”