Danny Meyer Food Quotations

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

I think that any business that thinks that the transaction is 'you give me money and I give you food, next, you give me money and I give you food, next,' without understanding that people deeply want to feel restored is in danger.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.