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Danny Meyer
American
Businessman
Born:
Mar 14
,
1958
Business
Food
Great
Me
People
You
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A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.
Danny Meyer
Time
Home
Great
You
Those
Hooked
Out
Restaurant
Both
Feel
Like
Sure
Makes
Came
Same
Just
Same Time
Whether
Confuses
Things
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
Danny Meyer
Business
Stream
Job
Values
Waters
Guide
About
Excellence
Clear
Performance
Refine
Improve
Owner
Any
Lack
Want
Cloudy
Us
Confusing
Creates
Business Owner
Help
Navigate
Swiftly
Company
Flowing
Core
Core Values
The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.
Danny Meyer
Service
You
Thrive
Important
Guest
Distinction
Both
Hospitality
Between
Most
Most Important Thing
Make
Important Thing
The Most Important
Different
Customer
Customer Service
Thing
Things
Need
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
Danny Meyer
People
Vegetables
Wine
Relate
Desserts
Pleasure
Potatoes
Steak
Primal
Generous
Source
Which
Many
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Danny Meyer
Great
Mistakes
Few
Those
Distinguish
Restaurant
Well
Makes
How
Itself
Handle
Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.
Danny Meyer
You
Believe
Other
Side
Hospitality
Exists
Person
Your
Hospitality knows no gender or race.
Danny Meyer
Gender
Hospitality
Knows
Race
One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
Danny Meyer
Today
Great
People
Worth
Tomorrow
Three
Become
Think
Find
Leaders
Terrific
Equals
Mobility
Just
Upward
Upward Mobility
Worker
Workers
Paying
Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
Danny Meyer
Needs
Every
Restaurant
Point
Point Of View
View
Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
Danny Meyer
Soul
Cafe
Brain
Square
Union
Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
Danny Meyer
Color
Lots
Festive
Mean
Cocktails
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
Danny Meyer
Leadership
Guidance
Pressure
Constant
Gentle
Preferred
Coaching
Technique
You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
Danny Meyer
You
Challenges
Right Thing
Out
Argue
Know
Doing
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.
Danny Meyer
Great
Capitalism
System
About
Great Thing
Works
Thing
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
Danny Meyer
Experience
Wonderful
Grace
Job
Every
Circumstances
Adjust
Artful
Wonderful Experience
Precision
Staff
Patron
Technical
In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.
Danny Meyer
Buy
Natural
Pay
Herd
Other
Willing
Shack
Shake
More
Know
Cattle
Encourage
Just
Order
Wants
Process
Which
Farmers
Who
Buyers
Raise
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.
Danny Meyer
Dog
Building
Community
Summer
Madison
Cart
Shack
Shake
Park
Hot
Hot Dog
Accidental
Off
Square
Meant
Meant To Be
Company
Expression
Started
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
Danny Meyer
Me
People
Some People
Rose
Thorns
Definition
Some
Sharp
Little
Really
Petals
Near
You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.
Danny Meyer
Service
Art
You
Walls
Style
Every
Neither
Restaurant
Waiter
Same
Uniforms
Should
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
Danny Meyer
World
Favorite
Favorite Things
Push
Shove
Baseball
Things
I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.
Danny Meyer
Year
Air
Once
Once A Year
Italian
Get
Breathe
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.
Danny Meyer
Buy
Food
Brilliant
Changing
Meet
Way
Has-Been
Foods
Because
Been
Just
Produced
Standards
Whole
Whole Foods
Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.
Danny Meyer
Day
People
Out
Dine
Kinda
Restaurant
Magazine
Hot
Opened
New
Cover
Were
Five
Sniff
York
Just
New York
Tavern
Wanted
Bar
Who
Deep
Appeared
Necessarily
Here
I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
Danny Meyer
Best
Me
Greedy
Think
Way
Best Way
Long-Term
Just
There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
Danny Meyer
Food
Thanksgiving
Home
People
Walk
Will
Three
Smell
Energy
Table
See
Able
Pick
Instant
Instantly
Feel
Up
Human
Your
Things
Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
Danny Meyer
Time
You
Money
Matter
Everyone
Well
Make
Equally
How
How Much
How Much Money
Gets
Much
Use
Your
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