The Restaurant 2009

Yup, Nathan was learning, and required a damm sight less training the JJ to become a competant front of house. Chris put his heart and soul into the cooking for nothing.

So, JJ can do a great cocktail, fantastic for him, but if I go to a restaurant and order a nice pudding, that's what I want, not a flipping cocktail, if I wanted one I'd order it. Mind you, it's not like JJ is going to be doing any cooking at the new place.

Fab concept RB, cocktails with finger food, sounRAB rather like a cocktail bar to me - wonder why nobody's thought of that before :rolleyes:
 
Whooooooooosh, there goes the little credibility this show has left out of the window.
I thought this show was all about running a restaurant and not about juggling iced buns standing on one leg on top of the London Eye during a worldwide live broadcast.
Ok I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean.
The Twins were the only ones doing a decent job at actually running a restaurant. Food seemed much better and on time on the tables. Rebecca did a good job as FOH, despite being one man/woman down. Restaurant seemed always busy and customers happy. This in sharp contrast to the Winkers and the Cookies.

I have the feeling the cooking demonstration was a last minute attempt at getting rid of the twins.

Winkers are going to win. With ease. :eek::eek::eek:
 
I would certainly turned out a little bit daft as FOH! but my partner is a chef bar none that I have every confidence in! I know we made the final selection just by being who we are! No blagging involved!

I don't know what went on production wise after that!.... but do know if you do try to design a perfect horse by committee you come up with a camel! :rolleyes:
 
If it is a "fact" then why have you failed to provide any evidence of it? The blogs you linked to made no mention of this at all :confused:

It won't be a fact until we see his revenue suffering.

I used to work in the restaurant business and have a fair idea of the impact of this sort of publicity and I can't see it causing any long-term damage, if any at all. Restaurants get damaged by people getting food poisoning or eating bad food / receiving poor service (and even then they can recover very quickly if it's handled right). Not stuff like this. All this is doing is keeping his name on people's lips.
 
I couldn't understand why the mum and son were sent home, they liked her starter and he was probably just very nervous.

Mr and Mrs Gravarrrdlax should have gone, they were just as bad as the pair who went first last year, who served up tinned mango. They seem to have been kept on purely because they begged to stay.
 
I disagree. The guy had an attitude problem all the way to the final and I don't think they could have trained that out of him. Why take the risk when the other team had a flawless front of house?
 
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