Anyone catch this on Fox tonight?
12 contestants broken into 2 teams are competing to be the last one standing who will win "the restaurant of their dreams".
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramesy takes the Simon Cowellesque asshole role to new lows throwing plates in the garbage or shoving then into the chests of the contestants while spouting enough "sailor talk" to make sure he's bleeped at least once every sentence.
After watching the 2 episodes tonight I think Mr. Ramesy is a total asshat
. Has nothing to do with the way he treated these contestants, afterall, that is the premise of the show, it's funny and there are few of these contestants even remotely likeable anyway. For all the talk he did of ethics and proper behavior he violated the one rule restaurants (and most businesses) live and die by,
the customer is king.
I know he was playing up to the cameras and the customers were bound to be aware that it was a game show (although that was never said....the show
did however say he has been voted UK's top chef many years in a row), but this "professional" told one female customer who nicely inquired after waiting over 2 hours and 45 minutes for service, "Why don't you <bleeped> fuck off?" Earlier he told an attractive blonde customer to go back to plastic surgery.
He plays off all the nastiness as his method of bringing out the best in chefs, but I know I will always remember him more for his shitty attitude towards customers (bet he wouldn't say these things in a
real setting... wonder how many others who saw this will when choosing restaurants? I'd think it a pretty bad career move for someone supposedly a country's top chef; but who knows, maybe he no longer needs income from restaurants
