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bouncer_the_dog said:
"I have dealt with A lot of celebrities in my time... and Heston is up there with that woman from Hi Di Hi who's name I've forgotten.."
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That was really mean of them to keep that in, as it had no point other than to make him look a bit of a knob.

Well we know how this ends as this was filmed before Christmas and a look at Little Chef's site shows their usual fayre.

Publicity for the Fat Duck and Little Chef all in one. Everyone is a winner.
 
I recorded the first one but missed last night :( Anyone know if it is repeated?

I know it is on catch up but our laptop doesn't have sound (dont't ask:mad:)
 
What amazes me is that you can employ a kitchen full of 'cooks', and not one of them can make scrambled eggs without using a microwave. Scrambled eggs FFS!
 
The bloke who runs the Popham Little Chef, who loves Little Chef, always wanted to work in Little Chef and has worked in Little Chef for 25 years is somewhat odd. It would appear his management qualities extend as far as 'being willing to stay working in a Little Chef for 25 years' for which he has been rewarded.

I thought the cigarette based exchange which revealed 'Fry Ups sell better with Beans' was a stunning insight, compounded be Hestons gobsmacked expression as he was informed of this fact. This totally, blindingly, fucking obvious fact.
 
Orangesanlemons said:
The Jamie Oliver's School Dinners template is followed religiously, right down to the annoying old bat who's "central" to the new menu [...] Misguided garbage - worthy of a half hour Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares where he shows up, simplifies the menu, uses local seasonal produce and tells them to "grow some fucking bollocks". No more, no less.
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Sums it up! :cool:

Little Chef's in branding no-man's land. Fast food at restaurant prices, but with slow service. Crazy! Last few times I stopped at motorway services, I went to the adjoining Burger King: cheap, quick, fills you up. If Little Chef had served mid-point fare like the hot-pot, quality hamburgers, shepherd's pie etc, I might have been tempted. As it was, I didn't fancy waiting 30 minutes in Formica Hell for lukewarm carpet lining.

The show's rigged as heck, but it is enjoyable, so I'll tune in to the last one. Felt for the staff caught up in this dumb publicity stunt. (And some "publicity": I'm not going near a Little Chef this side of forever.)

Oh, and what on earth *is* blue sky thinking? :confused: ;)
 
Mrs Miggins said:
I mean surely the CEO can't be THAT much of a clueless prick. Can he?
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OK, almost everything is rigged as heck. :D

Actually I did wonder that myself: if Mr Pegler is that much of a David Brent, no wonder Little Chef's going to the big Griddle in the sky.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
I'm beginning to think that everything on the show is set up...I mean surely the CEO can't be THAT much of a clueless prick. Can he?
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I think he absolutely can. I've worked with CEOs of much bigger companies and they were even bigger clueless pricks than he is.
 
Its great telly though, the chief almost a funnier version of Alan Partridge, and Heston, a complete dickhead who is shocked and stunned by anything other than his own scientifically perfected mixed/messed up cooking!
 
Thing is, Heston's redesigned Popham branch is getting some quite good reviews. I'm kinda tempted to go there if I'm passing. I wonder if they originally brought him in for a publicity stunt, and are now thinking, "Fuck, what if we actually did this for real?" :)
 
Shippou-Chan said:
fucking eat first complain later if you just going to laugh at something because it's strange and exotic you should be condemed to eat microwaved burgers for the rest of your life
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I agree tbh.

elevendayempire said:
Thing is, Heston's redesigned Popham branch is getting some quite good reviews. I'm kinda tempted to go there if I'm passing. I wonder if they originally brought him in for a publicity stunt, and are now thinking, "Fuck, what if we actually did this for real?" :)
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Oh! It looks lovely n sounds fab actually! :cool:
 
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