Danny Meyer Art Quotations

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.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

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.

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

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.