QuinnyCodedam I cooked chat
AljernonNot that I would work at a kitchen as bad as the ones on TV but having worked in restaurants, I’m surprised these kitchen nightmare type shows don’t have the host get punched by the staff periodically. Line cooks can be salty.
CorkyskogIt happens, my guilty pleasure is Kitchen Nightmares and related shows. Gordon and or his camera crew have been assaulted twice from memory. They get broken up crazy fast though. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more that don’t make it to camera. They are trying to tell a different story in each episode, so I am sure a brawl kind of derails that story telling.
I don’t watch Kitchen Nightmares but I’m in the room from time to time when my dad watches Bar Rescue and and his whole schtick just comes across as really punchable
BananaIsABerryThere’s a bar near me that was featured on that show.
Still sucks.
I think part of the problem with this style of show is that they’ll write a new menus or drink specials that doesn’t lean into the strengths (if any) of the staff or take into account what people in the local area like to eat/drink. They just do stuff that’s interesting for TV. Plus sometimes the work culture is the real culprit and you can almost never change that without mass firings and if the owners the problem…
I wasn’t a regular viewer but I remember some kitchen reality show where you had to beat everyone else in cooking competitions and the prize was you’d work for Gordon. At some point, one of the contestants had enough of Gordon’s patronizing bullshit and challenged him to a fight and Gordon looked at him like he was a stupid child. But Gordon knows what’s up. If you act like an asshole for long enough in a Kitchen, someone will fuck you up.