Kitchen Nightmare

[Onkel Neal]

Our instructor played a segment of this program today and I was hooked! This Scottish chef just rips into people right and left, it's like shock and awe. :o I think we were supposed to pick up some HR tips, but I can't say for sure what I learned except stay outta this guy's way :haha:

Kitchen Nightmares (http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=nightmares)


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[SteamWake]

Im sorry my wife watches these 'cooking' shows where some smart ass lambasts the cast for poor performance in a demening and contemptious manner.

I just dont get it.

Maybe this show is different as I chose not to 'install the new player' but still wtf ever happened to civility?

[mapuc]

:down: Only for viewers in USA

markus

[Onkel Neal]

:down: Only for viewers in USA

markus


Naw, this show started in the UK, then was adapted for the US :D

[Buddahaid]

Here in the US we just love confrontations and foul language. If you don't **** on people and say f*ck every other word it isn't meaningful or relevant. I just watched 'Idiocracy' the other day and found it completely believable!

Buddahaid

Oh look! I'm all handsome and dashing again.

[Aramike]

:down: Only for viewers in USA

markusMaybe I'm just a dirty American, but this show cracks me the hell up. :up:

[FIREWALL]

All this thread did was make me hungry. :D

[Oberon]

Aaah, Gordon Ramsey, thank god I've never had a chef like him :har: On the upside though, I have heard very good things about his cooking. :yep:

[Onkel Neal]

What do you do, Oberon? Are you a restaurant manager or chef?

[Oberon]

What do you do, Oberon? Are you a restaurant manager or chef?

The other end of the spectrum, I'm a waiter :03:

[Tribesman]

On the upside though, I have heard very good things about his cooking.
Pity his restaurants and pubs got a slating today then.
A good chef but he trades on his name and has allowed too much expansion to maintain the quality, which damages the name that he relies upon for trade.


Several Gordon Ramsay (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gordonramsay) restaurants (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/restaurants) found themselves listed among the most "overpriced" and "disappointing" today in a respected dining guide, bringing more dark clouds for the celebrity chef, who has had a turbulent year.
But the new edition of Harden's London Restaurants, which is based on thousands of reports by more than 8,000 customers, did offer one glimmer of hope for a Ramsay recovery, with his Italian-influenced Murano in Mayfair being named as the capital's best new restaurant.
Murano's chef, Angela Hartnett, was praised by the latest Harden's guide for "simple Italian dishes, beautifully executed".
Other findings in the 2010 guide were, however, far less palatable for Ramsay, whose international empire has suffered plummeting profits and unwanted headlines earlier this year about his restaurants serving up centrally prepared "reheated meals".
The latest Hardens found that Ramsay's flagship restaurant on Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea – until two years ago unchallenged as London's best top-end restaurant for nearly a decade – had suffered an "unprecedented slide" in approval from individual surveyors.
Meanwhile, four Ramsay restaurants – the Chelsea restaurant; Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's; The Warrington pub in Maida Vale; and Maze in Mayfair – were among the top 10 most disappointing for cooking.
And three of them – the Chelsea restaurant, Claridge's and Maze – were among the top 10 which diners in the survey found were most overpriced. Criticism of Ramsay's pubs has also intensified, the guide said.

[Oberon]

:doh: Whoops!

Like you say though, it's the rapid expansion and capitalisation of his name that means that expected levels of service are higher than some places can maintain. Of course, staff shakeups and cash injections can improve this, but the former lowers morale and the latter never gets past the directors. :damn:

[Jimbuna]

What do you do, Oberon? Are you a restaurant manager or chef?

The other end of the spectrum, I'm a waiter :03:

Surely you've seen him on your tv :DL


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[FIREWALL]

The other end of the spectrum, I'm a waiter :03:

I prefer a waiter over a waitress. :yep: