Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations. - Danny Meyer 1 Share Now -
My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine. - Danny Meyer 3 Share Now -
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. - Danny Meyer 4 Share Now -
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. - Danny Meyer 5 Share Now -
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching. - Danny Meyer 6 Share Now -
I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can. - Danny Meyer 7 Share Now -
A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked. - Danny Meyer 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents. - Danny Meyer 10 Share Now -
