Danny Meyer
Danny Meyer
Daniel "Danny" Meyeris a New York City restaurateur and the Chief Executive Officer of the Union Square Hospitality Group...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 March 1958
CountryUnited States of America
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
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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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Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company - it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.
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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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One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.
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My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
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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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More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
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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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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.
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Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
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People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.
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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.
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.