Harry Balzer Quotes (13 Quotes)

We want to buy fresh, but we don't want to deal with it, I can make pretty exotic meals, but I don't have to deal with buying ingredients, chopping vegetables and cleaning up.

The restaurant industry has experienced two big turns. There was the growth cycle in 2000 followed by the big downturn that's still going on.

My Diet -- that's the number one diet in America, and it's the easiest diet, because you make it up as you go,

Perhaps Americans have found that the easiest way to deal with their weight is to change their attitude... and buy bigger clothes.

The real problem with health is that there is no immediate payback. If I have low-fat milk today, what do I get Did it save me time, did it save me money The feedback is going to get to you 40 years from now.

It turns out health is a wonderful topic to talk about. But to live that way is a real effort.

Americans like anything that makes life easier, saves time and is new.

What this trend says is that a coffee shop has a role today in bringing up kids. It's less about a need to have coffee than that every generation of kids has to have a place to go.

I would say it has leveled off. The bad news is we haven't found a way to lose weight.

With self-service, customers generally fly through. It will save time and money, unless the order is complex.

They are aware of it, but they haven't changed their behavior.

January doesn't require you to take clothes off. In March, it's imminent.

We say we want fresh, but the truth of the matter is, to deal with fresh, it takes over your life. You have to prepare it, store it . . . and then you'll probably throw it away anyhow.