Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares

[Chairman Meow]

Carrot lasagne! *boke* (and not terribly Parisienne either.

 

[aqua]

so what was the gratin they did then? cos I remember thinking *vomit* at it

it was such a pretty little place too

 

[Chairman Meow]

Might have been carrot gratin too!

It all just looked like mush really.

We have a fantastic veggie restaurant here in Cork, Cafe Paradiso, so I've seen just how well veggie food can be. I wouldn't have fed that slop to my dog (if I had one). The stuff India made looked lovely though.

 

[aqua]

I loved cork when I was there but didnt get chance to eat in cafe paradiso

(walked past it drooling though )

wonder what the brazilian bloke is doing now

 

[maximilian ping]

i love this show because GR has hit on a goldmine - the thousands of totally useless restaurants run by clueless, tasteless fuckwits in this country. the only problem GR has is that there are loads of people who will eat this crap.

if someone did a similar progarmme on hotels they would also run riot.

easy, easy, easy!

 

[Fruitloop]

not that being a world famous chef and having a camera crew with you has anything to do with it.

Well maybe she wouldn't have done quite as well, but the point was that he was out there with a big sign grafting to get custom, and she didn't even notice that her own restaurant was open. One of those attitudes/behaviours has a chance of succeeding in business and the other doesn't.

 

[Melinda]

i love this show because GR has hit on a goldmine - the thousands of totally useless restaurants run by clueless, tasteless fuckwits in this country. the only problem GR has is that there are loads of people who will eat this crap.

if someone did a similar progarmme on hotels they would also run riot.

easy, easy, easy!

Please allow me to introduce you to Ruth Watson- Hotel Inspector!


She is funny as hell and like Gordon knows her business. Its a Channel 5 show but its great.

 

[zoltan]

methinks that its was Dad who called in GR - dopey spoilt daughter probabaly didnt have a clue

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Can't wait for the second show.

That was the second show. Am i the only person who saw it last week?

 

[Onket]

Worked out better than India could ever have imagined too ey?

Not quite as good as it would have been for her if she'd met me.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

I tought she was a 'minger' however i don't think her perminent Croydon Facelift did her any favours.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

That was the second show. Am i the only person who saw it last week?

Really? Fair enough, where was the first one?

 

[Griff]

Really? Fair enough, where was the first one?

A fish restaurant in Brighton with shocking decor.

 

[Kanda]

Anyone know what series/episode we are on?

I want to download it as I've missed it all so far.

 

[Chairman Meow]

The owner was an ex-luvvie, and the chef tried to say you couldn't buy many varieties of fresh fish in, err, Brighton. I think he was buying it from the supermarket or something.

I wonder how some of these people make it out of bed in the morning, I really do. LIke last nights programme - opening time at 6PM, and they didn't have any BREAD FFS. In PARIS!

 

[Orangesanlemons]

A fish restaurant in Brighton with shocking decor.

Ruby Tates? Damn, I was looking forward to that one in particular.
I'll have a look for a download...

 

[Kanda]

Here ya go Oranges: http://www.mininova.org/search/kitchen+nightmares/seeds

Just trying to work out where we are...

 

[Chairman Meow]

Ruby Tates? Damn, I was looking forward to that one in particular.
I'll have a look for a download...

That's the one. Gordon rechristened in as Love's.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Here ya go Oranges: http://www.mininova.org/search/kitchen+nightmares/seeds

Just trying to work out where we are...

Much obliged.
S5 ep01 I think.

 

[mrsfran]

For those saying good on Gordon for giving India a job - he didn't. He gave her "work experience" in one of his restaurants. In other words, come and work for me for free for a couple of weeks and we'll see how we go. Common recruiting technique in the chef trade.

 

[Chairman Meow]

For those saying good on Gordon for giving India a job - he didn't. He gave her "work experience" in one of his restaurants. In other words, come and work for me for free for a couple of weeks and we'll see how we go. Common recruiting technique in the chef trade.

Its still a fantastic opportunity for any budding chef though.

 

[mrsfran]

Yes it is, I agree. But let's not be fooled into thinking that he offered her a job. He offered her the chance to work her arse off for him for free.

 

[mrsfran]

Also, I totally agree with the woman who walked out when he started yelling at her about how shit she was. Why should she be spoken to like that? I'd walk out too, he was being a complete cunt. She didn't invite him there, she doesn't have to take that.

And by refusing to be spoken to like shit, she lost her job. He just laughed. Ha ha Gordon. You're such a funny cunt.

 

[tarannau]

But she was shit. You're on a national tv programme about a fresh start for a failing restaurant losing heavy amounts of daddy's money, theoretically helping out a good mate... and you still turn up late and act unapologetically.

Some people deserve a rocket up the arse. She was one of them.

Ramsey's a blustering cock who plays up to the camera, but I've heard very good things about how he encourages and nurtures those in his kitchens, particularly from women surprisingly. I suspect India didn't do badly out of her 'work experience;

 

[mrsfran]

I'm not talking about the owner, I'm talking about the chef woman before India.

 

[tarannau]

I thought the daytime chef stayed with India -indeed the French woman in the kitchen seemed to be praised well and encouraged in the bit I watched. Only the mad black guy left from the kitchen I thought.

The silly friend of the owner, working front of house, left after getting a dressing down from Ramsey. And it was absolutely deserved - the place was filthy, shambolic and poorly run - she didn't have a clue. Nor was she willing to listen .

 

[maximilian ping]

i think that woman was v sexy and GR fancied her, but possibly on drugs - she looked permanently out of it - she smoked like a drug addict too

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Yes it is, I agree. But let's not be fooled into thinking that he offered her a job. He offered her the chance to work her arse off for him for free.

I seriously doubt that. Maybe it still goes on in exceptional three star places, but in fifteen years of being a chef i've never seen anyone offered or accept those sort of terms.
Catering doesn't attract many people with money, and it isn't like journalism where interns can work for nothing to get their foot in the door and expect daddy to subsidise them for the year. These people mostly need to pay the rent, and they need to pay it yesterday. You can take someone on for a trial shift with no strings sure (although anywhere that didn't pay me for my time could go whistle tbh), but any longer than that and you'd want and need something, cashwise.
From a logistical point of view alone it doesn't make sense.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That was the second show. Am i the only person who saw it last week?

No - I saw it too - and opening the show with Electric Six was genius IMO

 

[mrsfran]

But Gordon can and does get away with it. I know El Bulli does it, a number of starred restaurants in London do it, and I reckon Gordon does it too. That's why he offered her "work experience" - never was it called anything other than that. What does "work experience" mean to you? To me, it means "come and be cheap labour and if you're good enough we might offer you a job". It's a great opportunity, certainly, and very canny of Gordon, but it's not a job offer.

And while you've never seen anyone accept work on those terms, you've surely met people who would willingly work in a Ramsey restaurant for free (at least for a couple of weeks) just for the chance to work there.