On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:
> A scorecard on GrubStreet > <http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/06/gordon-ramsay-kitchen-nightmares-restaurant-closure-rates.html> > (link) shows north of 60 % of the eateries the show visited, have since > closed. > > The Easton venue, the last show's subject, survives as a new location of > DeLorenzo's <http://www.delorenzosrestaurant.com/> (link), which moved > about 2½ miles north. > I don't want to be in the position of defending Gordon Ramsey, but GrubStreet's analysis seems inadequate and potentially misleading to me. A very high percentage of restaurant's close in any one year, and my understanding is that the establishments featured on this program are already in crisis. To meaningfully interpret the 60% closing rate, we would have to know what percentage of similarly situated restaurants have closed within a similar time period - I would be surprised if that number was not at least 60%. I guess if Ramsey has made the claim that he has saved all of the restaurant's that appear on his show (I have seen a small percentage of these programs, but I can not recall if he makes such a claim) then these data would be enough to dispute that. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
