Peter Morton Quotes

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.

Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business enterprise in history.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

I love In-N-Out Burgers!

Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it.

I'm a big chicken guy, and Wingstop chicken wings are my number one go-to, so I just got involved with the company. I purchased a few franchises myself. I like to consider myself a global brand ambassador.

Let me clear something up: I don't like KFC. Or McDonald's.

I don't know any chef who doesn't like fast food.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.

Many people have strong views on McDonald's.

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.

When I started Chipotle, I didn't know the fast-food rules. People told us the food was too expensive and the menu was too limited. Neither turned out to be true.

I love In-N-Out!

I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.