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Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant empire 'racks up debts of £71.5 million with staff owed £2.2 million'
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Bet your life Jamie wont be out of pocket.
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And the food was ****, my local one shut last summer double the price for half portions and bland, tasteless garbage. Only recommendation was crab linguine forget the rest of the menu.
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Some of These people cant get Enough Money ,end up Doing their Brains , Shirley he must be made Bankrupt ?
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Limited company. Oliver still absolutely minted. Not bad for a limited cook.
I went to one of his restaurants once when one opened in Reading; despite it appearing to be over priced from the menu outside. It wasn't full but the staff were pretentious from the off. Tried to put me and my gf at a table right by the kitchen door which would mean staff breezing past us every 2 seconds. Politely requested a different table and the waitress point blank refused in a rather offhand manner as though they didn't need our custom. With that picked our coats up and left and vowed never to set foot in one of his establishments ever. Having seen a few dishes come out I knew we were making the right decision. |
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Dined in the one in melbourne a few times,mixed reviews, got moved once after our starter but they halved the bill. Food was good tbf
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he had to shut some restaurants last year , he had the cheek to blame brexit for the loss of customers.
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http://thecricketers.co.uk/
Not far from Stansted Airport been a few times nice spot quite dear though |
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Interesting to see how much of his personal fortune he'll commit to saving other peoples' jobs. More worried about him outbreeding us. Insist on Rocky Mountain Oysters a le Oliver?
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450 staff redundicies
I ordered the starter , maybe sometime |
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your mad being a shareholder any restaurant
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charwell did your gf enjoy mcdonalds
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Should be making it big time, by charging £12.00 for a burger, and twelve chips!
I would think that not many will return for a second meal.... |
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This was in York btw...
My son thought they had given him a starter. instead of a main course! Five "Pasta Ravioli Pillows" looking like an island on the big plate! They did double it up, on complaining.... |
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some customers think Jamie is in the kitchen making it
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Too true xmoney
One of my clients is a rural hotel in the North, really nice place, popular with the hunting, shooting and fishing lot. They had a tie-up with a famous chef, household name. The hotel really tore the ar5e out of this tie-up, 'famous chef menu in the famous chef room' etc etc. The manager said to me that at least once a week a punter would ask if 'famous chef' would mind coming into the dining room for a quick word and maybe a picture - he had to tell them unfortunately he wasn't able to be in the kitchen tonight for some spurious reason. In fact he did 6 days a year for them designing menu's and showing the hotel chefs how to cook it. They never saw him for 6 months at a time! |
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He's put in £3m to 'help out' according to the report plus another of his companies has loaned the chain £6.4m.
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Overpriced small portions of mediocre food living off the name, I'm not a fan and wouldn't go again unless dragged..
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His £150,000,000 personal fortune will be safe no doubt.
L.D.F. A Wimpy Halfpounder with chips in Beckenham High Street costs an incredible £9.70, £12 for a pub burger and chips is the norm in my neck of the woods and not the exception! |
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No Spoons near you slippy, or is it too lowlife?
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I pop into the Spoons in Brixton, The Beehive every now and then. Also the one in Crystal Palace next to Paddy Power, The Postal Order, I was in there on Friday. Hope this helps
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People are obsessed with eating out & prices have gone ridiculously through the roof, like the above are saying £12 for burger & chips in a stupid brioche bun, in a pub! Also had a takeaway delivered the other night, 2 chicken tikka masarla's, 1 chicken madras, 2 plain rice, i nan bread, 1 bombay aloo, 6 puppadums - £40 frickin quid! Ridiculous, it was good, but more fool me, that's stupid money for a takeaway.
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I go quite often slippy, brunch and a pint of Shipyard yesterday, £6.25.
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iceland
you can suck a frozen roast beef £1.99 |
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My brother says their lasagne is very good, but for some reason lasagne never appeals to me in the same way spaghetti bolognese does.
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I like the one in Brixton saddo, it's very 'earthy' for want of a better word and they show RUK in there. Plus it's as cheap as chips and they always have plenty of staff on as it's invariably very busy but it's never too long to wait to get served.
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Desmond Orchard 12 Feb 18 17:14
One of my clients is a rural hotel in the North.....hunting, shooting and fishing lot. They had a tie-up with a famous chef, household name. .... ... In fact he did 6 days a year for them designing menu's and showing the hotel chefs how to cook it. They never saw him for 6 months at a time! ------------- Would have thought that was bleedin' obvious. Just why anybody goes to a 'name' restaurant - just because of the 'name' - has always baffled me. How on earth could the likes of Oliver - Ramsey - Rick Stein, et al, all be - or worse still, be PERCEIVED to be - in their SAME places at the SAME time defies simple logic. Then they brag ... "We went to Rick Stein's". No you didn't - You went to some beggar else's franchised Fish & Chippy. |
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jaw dropping banks let it go this far
were they cooking ( sorry for pun) the books |
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yes, I think the bubble burst when the incredibly fickle people that were going to his restaurants finally realised that it wasn't actually Jamie Oliver in the kitchen cooking for them
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I bet the chef who only did 6 days a year was James Martin, he put his name to a restaurant in a casino in Leeds, it lasted less than 6 months.
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Wonder how many Small suppliers life's have been destroyed in that 71 million ....
Meanwhile Mr Oliver will be out in his garden with his Grill next Xmas. |
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he needs to grill his accountant
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I was at Lords at a 1 day international when they introduced the Jamie Oliver steak sandwich at £20 each.
They sold 7 in the whole day, and it was soon dropped. |
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£20 for a sandwich, wtf |
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theres one of these jamie oliver places where I live, never been in it, I know people who have tho and they said it was a rip off, no surprise
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theres a million eateries in London alone been a chef making food etc must be as difficult as running a bath,to 99% of the great unwashed the difference between a bog average meal and a great meal is miniscule once people take their heads out of their arses ,young lad in the wifes office said he ordered a papa johns pizza £17,how can you charge 17 quid for a pizza
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so get dressed up in a Victoria becks dress and go for a jamnie oliver meal, leaves someone about 2 billion in debt,alan sugar eat your heart out
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But why do we insist on eating out? Ok a night out, get waited on etc. but the food is rarely better than a decent ready meal or homemade hotch potch.
As for takeaways, don't get me started.. It's processed filth that you have to plate up, eat up (if you can) and wash up.. W H Y ? |
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eat out with friends, dinner party is a thing of the past for me
brand names on restaurants....no thanks, pretty easy to find a decent restaurant from word of mouth take aways....lazy, nothing in house i fancy, phone up have it delivered, ....not very often, as i enjoy cooking |