The Restaurant 2009

Being pedantic :o - wasn't that The Rook? :)

As said above, RB seemed to be saying that he would excuse the Winkers not cooking because they were strategists. If that is so, then they are not very good ones given no one seemed to get fed. They have a strategy for a non-cook, no food restaurant. Great concept :rolleyes: I think on balance the girls should have stayed. The winkers are just BS-ers.

And yes, I heard how they were going to put canine pepper on their eggs :eek:
 
A month? JJ will not last a week, his face will break out with open sores due to the stress. James will not be there holding his hand and telling him how great everything is while lying through his teeth.

He couldn't even manage an evening running his own pass with no cooking involved. :D

Nathan just neeRAB a firm hand and guidance, the potential is there it just neeRAB bringing out.
 
OMG:eek: The winkers actually won ROFLMAO:D:D Missed last nights final episode and just caught it on BBC Iplayer.

JJ' didnt know there was a kitchen garden and ordered the ingredients in, then his risotto was like wallpaper paste (according to sarah willingham), then his souffle mix looked like dirty water someones pink knickers & dead flies had been soaking in. After all this Raymond wants to open a restaurant with him :D:D
Sorry, but this is the best laugh I have had for ages. Poor Chris (the guy who could cook) looked absolutely gob smacked. The bald guy nearly had a nervous breakdown because Nathan asked someone in his restaurant what they had ordered, yet he and his "business partners" are going to open a restaurant with someone who can't cook!:D Well good luck Raymond et al, you are certainly going to need it.
 
That's what occurred to me after watching last night.
If they decided to make the selection process more like "The Apprentice"..ie, different projects to test marketing and general business skills etc..then there should have been more emphasis on making a profit. They should have been given a set budget for different projects, then at least we (the audience) could have seen who was capable of understanding the profit motive behind running a business..regardless of their cooking skills.
However, that begs the question..why would skillful, experienced entrepreneurs seek out a couple of would-be entrepreneurs, without cooking skills, to be partners in a restaurant ? Surely the original idea was for the business-orientated Raymond, Sarah and David to be looking for talented amateurs, who are enthusiatic about running a restaurant but may lack business acumen.
 
Brasserie Blanc had already been open for about a year when they filmed the Restaurant (the Cheerful Soul people trained there, from memory).

On a similar note, I've seen an email going around from the BBC where they are looking for 10 couples to run a farm in a knockout style contest. Sound familiar?
 
I like this programm and slad it starting soooon last years show where Wedneday and Thursday this years is starting on a Thursday so when is the 2nd show that week
 
Exactly. If it was all about concept, they should have just hired a chef and FOH for each restaurant, and been judged on entirely different tasks, e.g.:

  • Carrying out market research to assess the demand/popularity of the concept, and identify the target market.
  • Designing the 'look' of the restaurant to reflect the concept and attract the target market.
  • Designing menus to display the concept in the best way - and getting the hired staff to cook and serve the damn things properly!
  • Comparing customer numbers, financial returns, feedback, etc week by week
  • And so on

That didn't happen, so is the explanation one of the following?

  1. As suggested elsewhere, RB knew the winkers before the show and was interested in working with them in a cocktail bar/food operation. Well, that might explain the winking at the start, and why RB would feel it necessary to be seen to take exception to it... It might also explain why he didn't stop the show and get rid of the whole lot, although it might have been more convincing if he'd at least threatened it, like Philippe Starck on Design for Life, although he bottled it!
  2. RB and his partners had to fall back on the concept as the only rational basis for selecting a winner, faced with a laughable choice of contestants by inept producers who made their selection in reverse order from the bottom of the competence list, purely to provide "entertainment". Well, that might explain why Sarah & Co started by castigating the winkers, but ended up choosing them. But if that were true, why not walk out and pay any contractual cost to preserve your credibility - or at least slate the producers after the end of the show? Would he really want to work with them on that basis again - unless they unearthed another interesting concept, of course :cool:
 
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