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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

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

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?

I know, whoever visits my restaurant, they have loved the food.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.