After Quote by Joe Bastianich

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

— Gloria Votsis

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had…

— Paul Prudhomme

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship.…

— Jacques Pepin

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

— Bradley Cooper

I grew up in the restaurant business, and that's always something I wanted to do.

— Nick Foles

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant…

— Anne Burrell

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery…

— Dolores Huerta

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to…

— Anthony Minghella

I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great cooking.

— Henry Mancini

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the…

— Karen Mills

I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

— Christine McVie

I worked in a coffee shop called Buzz Cafe in Oak Park. I started when I was 14 or 15, washing dishes, and then…

— Cecily Strong