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I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Adore Fancy Genuine Going Like Long Pleasure Restaurant Spirit Very Welcome You

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Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Before Define Helped Home Interact Like Long Neighborhood Outside Phrase Place Places Restaurants Somewhere Square Starbucks Third Union Work

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I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Business Cafe Essential First Grow Higher Hope Just Lifetime Lives Might Old Opened Play Role Simply Square Stakeholders Stay Union Would Years

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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.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: American Chicken Eat Fast-Food Fried Fried Chicken Got Meal Meals Next Restaurants Said Someone Two Would You Your

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Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Actor Become Broad Chefs Common Culture Followed Movie Movie Stars Public Reserved Restaurants Sports Stars Theater Today Used Way

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I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Apartment Been Ever First Intern Love Many Senate Since Very Washington While Working Years Years Ago

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My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: About Am Because Beneath Constantly Fascinated Favorite Feet Five Just Learn Learning Looking Next Place Sidewalk Something Street Then Times Up Walk Walked Walking I Am

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I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Experience Feel Hole Joe Knowing Like New New York Not Knowing York I Feel I Feel Like

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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.

~Danny Meyer

Topics: Business Cooking Demanding Five Food French Fried Italian Italian Food Less Need Some Standards Than You

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What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

~Danny Meyer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 14th, 1958

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