Mom and Pop Shops Quotes

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

Supermarkets must not eliminate the individual retailers and market roads like the Northcote.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It's not pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it's very friendly and easygoing.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.