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Danny Meyer


American
March 14, 1958
Businessman
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How can you franchise hospitality?


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Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.


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Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.


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Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.


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Service is how product is delivered - the technical aspect.


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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.


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More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.


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I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.
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Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.


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A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
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I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.


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You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.


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Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone.
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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.
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One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
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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.
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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.
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Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
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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.
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In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
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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.
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The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.
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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.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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