GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Now I know there are some members who don't like Ramsay because he is a bully. In my opinion that's crap - he takes poorly trained and motivated people and turns them into more successful people. So that's not disputed, especially in the UK.
However, in the US version of Kitchen Nightmares it's an absolute mess of a show littered with Golden Moments, Massive changes, Miracles, blah blah blah.
I only watch it because I love to watch Ramsay work.
It's overly produced and is a very unnatural program. It's almost like this is ****, and then this is utopia. I have no doubt that it is because of the strive for perfection that US producers search for. Rather than in the UK we show all the imperfections that are more natural.
Anyway, for those who have never seen it, this is the format of every single show.
1. Owners showing how crap they are at running a business, arrogant chef who uses fake sauces and frozen foods. Owners who rely heavily on using Offers to generate sales rather than good products who don't need offers. (pretty much like F&B's at the moment).
2. Ramsay comes in, sits down and orders (while commenting on the tatty, tacky details of the restaurant) a bunch of meals. He gets them and every single show without fail he comments on how **** the food is. Sometimes he is asked by the producers to fake being sick in the toilets.
3. He tells the Owners/Chef's home truths about their restaurant and their food. To which he usually gets a surprised look. I mean some of these owners/chef's think that a world class chef will not recognise processed, frozen, fake food. That can be forgiven, but I saw one the other day and they had served old lettuce that was limp and brown. I mean come on, would you? It's just for television, sorry my American friends but it's pathetic the way the whole show is setup.
4. Ramsay brings in his design team to completely overhaul the restuarant, new decor, sometimes even a new kitchen. These guys spend a fortune, do the owners deserve to have such luxuries served upon them? Some of them are over a million in debt and here is the producers spending **** loads of cash to bail them out. Hmm, how many starving people are living on the streets?
5. The owners/chefs/staff all come in to work to see basically a brand new restaurant and then guess what happens now. Yes, the waterworks. No not just from the women, but the men. Grown men crying on national tv because they are so happy that Ramsay has bailed them out of the ****. It's pathetic and I secretly reckon Ramsay is dying to laugh.
I mean come on, grow a pair, stop crying you fanny.
6. Ramsay designs a new menu, and after a week of him being their it's all sorted. Any family issues are sorted out (it's usually family run businesses), everyone is crying again, and then we get the Golden Moment, it's like watching the end if Diagnosis Murder with the "It's all worked out in the end" piano music and everyone is so happy, and we can all return to our perfect lives.
Thank you Chef Ramsay, that's another fire put out in the land of **** restaurants.
Watch it if you dare, but it's so fall of fakeness its untrue. Am I disappointed in Ramsay? Yes in a way, he has sold out in a way, but if they want to pay someone to do what he does everyday, then why not.
However, in the US version of Kitchen Nightmares it's an absolute mess of a show littered with Golden Moments, Massive changes, Miracles, blah blah blah.
I only watch it because I love to watch Ramsay work.
It's overly produced and is a very unnatural program. It's almost like this is ****, and then this is utopia. I have no doubt that it is because of the strive for perfection that US producers search for. Rather than in the UK we show all the imperfections that are more natural.
Anyway, for those who have never seen it, this is the format of every single show.
1. Owners showing how crap they are at running a business, arrogant chef who uses fake sauces and frozen foods. Owners who rely heavily on using Offers to generate sales rather than good products who don't need offers. (pretty much like F&B's at the moment).
2. Ramsay comes in, sits down and orders (while commenting on the tatty, tacky details of the restaurant) a bunch of meals. He gets them and every single show without fail he comments on how **** the food is. Sometimes he is asked by the producers to fake being sick in the toilets.
3. He tells the Owners/Chef's home truths about their restaurant and their food. To which he usually gets a surprised look. I mean some of these owners/chef's think that a world class chef will not recognise processed, frozen, fake food. That can be forgiven, but I saw one the other day and they had served old lettuce that was limp and brown. I mean come on, would you? It's just for television, sorry my American friends but it's pathetic the way the whole show is setup.
4. Ramsay brings in his design team to completely overhaul the restuarant, new decor, sometimes even a new kitchen. These guys spend a fortune, do the owners deserve to have such luxuries served upon them? Some of them are over a million in debt and here is the producers spending **** loads of cash to bail them out. Hmm, how many starving people are living on the streets?
5. The owners/chefs/staff all come in to work to see basically a brand new restaurant and then guess what happens now. Yes, the waterworks. No not just from the women, but the men. Grown men crying on national tv because they are so happy that Ramsay has bailed them out of the ****. It's pathetic and I secretly reckon Ramsay is dying to laugh.
I mean come on, grow a pair, stop crying you fanny.
6. Ramsay designs a new menu, and after a week of him being their it's all sorted. Any family issues are sorted out (it's usually family run businesses), everyone is crying again, and then we get the Golden Moment, it's like watching the end if Diagnosis Murder with the "It's all worked out in the end" piano music and everyone is so happy, and we can all return to our perfect lives.
Thank you Chef Ramsay, that's another fire put out in the land of **** restaurants.
Watch it if you dare, but it's so fall of fakeness its untrue. Am I disappointed in Ramsay? Yes in a way, he has sold out in a way, but if they want to pay someone to do what he does everyday, then why not.
