A restaurant is an unusual business, charged as it is with stewardship of one of the fundamental processes of our animal biology. Until breathing and excretion can be commodified, the restaurant manager inhabits a rarified sphere whose only other residents are obstetricians, undertakers, and whores.

San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 13, 2005, Flash Fries, http://www.sfbg.com/39/41/x_edible_complex.html