Chain Restaurants Quotes

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

Shake Shack is good, but it's no In-N-Out.

We want to replace all the T.G.I. Friday's, Applebee's - at a price point that is arguably even lower than those guys.

In some cities, McDonald's rules, but Seattle is ruled by teriyaki joints.

Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys.

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's also a buffet - with unlimited orange chicken from Panda Express, curly fries from Arby's, Hawaiian pizza from Sbarro, and Coke Zero. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures.

Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

I do not like fancy or chain restaurants. I live for local spots.

One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world.

I remember looking to McDonald's, and, my God, they have 13,000 restaurants in the United States. Well, we have almost a couple thousand Chipotles. What if Pizzeria Locale is a few thousand, and Shod. All of a sudden, we're bigger than McDonald's in the U.S. I mean, that's not an unreasonable way to think about this.

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.