Marco Pierre White Quotes
My pet hate, with customers, is those that think it's all about wallets.
White, Marco Pierre. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007.
One of the major problems with marijuana was that since it was illegal, the supply was not regulate. One result was that there was no labeling and the consumer had no idea of the strength of the active ingredient (THC) and could not monitor his/her dosage. At the time of this quotation, the state of Colorado had just legalized the selling of marijuana but required that all marijuana sold carry labels which inform the consumer just how much THC he/she would be taking.
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau was established over much Conservative opposition in the reforms that were established in the wake of the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession. And the Republican Party was critical of everything that it did. The issue of whether or not the Federal government should even have a role in consumer protection was been debated for over a century. This quotation is very ironic in that the first major federal legislation to assist American consumers was pushed though by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. Over 100 years later, it was the Republican Party that fought to weaken or eliminate Federal efforts. Ryan, the Republican legislative leader, led the effort. Ironically, most businesses agreed with him about the micromanagement as it was they who had to change their modes of operation to comply with CFPB regulation, but the vast majority of consumers did not feel that they were being micromanaged although many agreed that the companies interacting with consumers were certainly being managed much more tightly.
Marco Pierre White is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene.
