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I do not like fancy or chain restaurants. I live for local spots.

I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the next it would be a British pub, and everyone gets in a fight.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.