Great Restaurant Service Quotes

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong. ~ Dana Spiotta

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy. ~ Emeril Lagasse

Why is this mediocre? We love to point out how broken our systems are. We enjoy getting angry at hotels or government agencies or airlines that are so obviously doing a poor job. Idiots! But we almost never look at merely mediocre products and wonder why they aren't great. Mediocre services or products do what they're supposed to, but have set the bar so low that it's hardly worth the energy to cross the street to buy them. A resolute generic sameness pervades this mediocrity. Why isn't every restaurant meal a fabulous buy for the money? Why isn't every tax dollar spent with the intensity and focus it could be spent with? It seems as though we are willing to accept mediocre as long as the product, the service, or the organization isn't totally broken. ~ Seth Godin

I use the following scenario in my classes to illustrate the nature of the moral circle. Imagine, I ask my students, that your best friend just got a job waiting tables at a restaurant. To celebrate with her you arrange with friends to go to the restaurant to eat dinner on her first night. You ask to be seated in her section and look forward to surprising her and, later, leaving her a big tip. Soon your friend arrives at your table, sweating and stressed out. She is having a terrible night. Things are going badly and she is behind getting food and drinks out. So, I ask my students, what do you do? Easily and naturally the students respond, "We'd say, 'Don't worry about us. Take care of everyone else first.'" I point out to the students that this response is no great moral struggle. It's a simple and easy response. Like breathing. It is just natural to extend grace to a suffering friend. Why? Because she is inside our moral circle.

But imagine, I continue with the students, that you go out to eat tonight with some friends. And your server, whom you vaguely notice seems stressed out, performs poorly. You don't get good service. What do you do in that situation? Well, since this stranger is not a part of our moral circle, we get frustrated and angry. The server is a tool and she is not performing properly. She is inconveniencing us. So, we complain to the manager and refuse to tip. In the end, we fail to treat another human being with mercy and dignity. Why? Because i ~ Richard Beck

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. ~ David Rockwell

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king. ~ Criss Jami

You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant. ~ Danny Meyer

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes. ~ Danny Meyer

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich. ~ Don Rickles

Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design. ~ Peter Bowman

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal. ~ Ben Silbermann

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant. ~ Eddie Huang

You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them. ~ Ron Kaufman

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ~ Joan Didion

No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice. ~ Ken Blanchard

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community. ~ Bob Schieffer

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. ~ Tallulah Bankhead

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime. ~ Neil MacGregor

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? ~ Rand Paul

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ~ Jim Rohn

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. ~ Friedrich Schiller

I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet. ~ Wylie Dufresne

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. ~ Calvin Coolidge

I am a plain ordinary human in the service of the humans - service is my oxygen, service is my water, service is my bread and service is my butter. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. ~ Bill Bryson

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good? ~ David Chang

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good. ~ J. R. Martinez

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. ~ Mickey Gilley

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others. ~ Debasish Mridha

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. ~ Ferran Adria

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. ~ Chris Cannon

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. ~ Pope John Paul II

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ~ Albert Camus

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset. ~ Seth

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant. ~ Rene Redzepi

We use similar products. Our focus industry is healthcare and hospitality. But we haven?t done anything interactive. The first day full of seminars is full of things I thought would be useful: quick service restaurant and mobile phone applications. Businesses are providing more services and products by self-service means. ~ Milton Jones

It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store. ~ Sophia Amoruso

Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way? ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Partnership elasticity stretches the relationship so it can breathe, grow, and expand. ~ Chip R. Bell

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. ~ Rick Bayless

I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me. ~ Antonio Sabato, Jr.

Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer's imagination. ~ Chip R. Bell

Access to inside your customer's imagination comes with learning and discovering together, out loud. ~ Chip R. Bell

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long. ~ David Chang

While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country. ~ Marc Veasey

The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes. ~ David Chang

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses. ~ Chip R. Bell

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. ~ David Rockwell

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The acts of kindness I do for my community comes from the heart. If your mind wonders why I serve the community with such a kind heart, there goes a great connection between heart and mind. Once your mind figures out why my heart drives me to service my community with unselfish intentions, this will lead to you extending a helping hand and rendering service to your community; there goes a great connection between heart, mind and body. We will both rejoice in the great feeling of doing community service and our souls will experience fulfillment together; there goes a great connection between heart, mind, body and soul. Our community service is complete. ~ Reekie D. Mays Of SDM Speaks

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human. ~ Michael Mina

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies. ~ Dave Obey

Great leadership is a reflection of honest service ~ Lazarus Takawira

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service. ~ Thomas S. Monson

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have. ~ Jose Ferreira

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees. ~ Michael Mina

Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service. ~ Daniel Humm

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination. ~ Chip R. Bell

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free. ~ Nathan Myhrvold

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language ... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour. ~ Barry Humphries

Service to the poor - the helpless - is the real service to God - it is the real worship of the Almighty. And this very worship is the highest form of practical holiness. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Good service is a great inchantment. ~ George Herbert

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not. ~ Steve Albini

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. ~ Daniel Boulud

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines. ~ Paul Prudhomme

Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade. ~ Gary Owen

I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant. ~ Casey Neistat

You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

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

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh. ~ Joss Whedon

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. ~ Sergio De La Pava

Service of humanity is practical divinity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will. ~ Robert Service

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. ~ Rory Bremner

Customer service is the new marketing. ~ Derek Sivers

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great. ~ Jon Gordon

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't. ~ Atul Gawande

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. ~ Nicole Polizzi

Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As long as you give yourself to it. You don't need to worry about anything but doing that job well, and the satisfaction, when you do, is very beautiful. ~ Claire Messud

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant. ~ Danny Meyer

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn. ~ Lou Gerstner

Be absorbed in what your customer is saying; be inspired by what your customer is meaning. ~ Chip R. Bell

Our service for one another is a service to humanity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this, because it's my theory that owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with the restaurant. There are many problems that come with owning a restaurant, not the least of which is that you have to eat there all the time. Giving up the fantasy that you want to own a restaurant is probably the last Piaget stage. ~ Nora Ephron

Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic. ~ Simon McBurney

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined. ~ Brigitte Bardot

We've become such a restaurant society. ~ Tom Douglas

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. ~ Michael Symon

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. ~ Marian Burros

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. ~ Heston Blumenthal

Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others. ~ Chris Matakas

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. ~ Ben Okri

I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. ~ Hill Harper

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service. ~ Rick Warren

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu. ~ Rob Reiner

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. ~ Eric Ripert