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
existing flavors
What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.
change human money nature people quality spend status symbols wants
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.
adore fancy pleasure
I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.
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Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
gets money time
Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
brilliant buy changing food foods produced
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.
business people politics
People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
business demanding five food fried italian less 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.
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A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
business call opposed orchestra people personally side theater
In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.
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I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.
based believer change drives pleasure
I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.
basically
I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.