Marco Pierre White Quotes

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

I absolutely love the restaurant industry.

I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

I love how restaurants work. The energy, the pace, and the idea of working under budgetary restraints reminds me a lot of sets.

My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.