Originally Posted by CDSmith

I've only just recently lached onto this show, and so far I've watched about a dozen older episodes and just the last few from this year (including this one with the Arizona psycho-bitch-from-hell). One of the most repetitive themes that truly baffles me on the show is how so many restaurants, owners, managers, chefs etc, all admit at the start of each episode that there are a pile of things wrong with their businesses, they admit that they are failing, that not enough business is coming in, not enough money, etc etc... yet 5 minutes into it after Ramsay gives them his honest crtitique they all (every freaking one of them) says he's wrong and that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

And that is about a minute after they've said "Chef Ramsay is coming to see if he can turn this place around, he's a genius in the kitchen, he's a legend, thank God he's going to be here!".

A few minutes later he's the "enemy". Unreal.

It's like every one of them on every show expects or is hoping he'll walk in the place and give them all rave reviews on everything and tell them they're doing just fine. But in reality what they SHOULD be doing is saying they want the guy to find out everything that's wrong so they can bloody well fix it.

Either that bit of the show is scripted, to you know, make for interesting TV, or else I had no idea there was that level of stupidness on a glactic scale in the restaurant industry.

I think I'll continue to watch for now, if for no other reason than I love seeing people with massive egos get reamed, taken down several pegs, and having their heads pulled out of their asses for them. A lot of people hate this Ramsay guy, I think in this show anyway he's like the Batman of restaurant rescue.