I think there are all sorts of things that need to be taken into account, because any/all of these could have a significant bearing:
- They were failing restaurant anyway - They've been chosen by the production company to meet certain show requirements (being well managed not being one). The clue is in the show's name. - While there is a view that "all publicity is good publicity," that may not be the case for an establishment that has been shown to have infestations/major cleanliness issue/bad food preparation etc. Indeed just appearing on Ramsay might make me, as a local, *less* likely to visit the establishment than I would have before. - In essence, the only real change the establishments have had is a few pep-talks from Ramsay, plus some new fixtures and fittings, and some promises made on camera to produce some kind of happy resolution in a 42 minute show. - Fox has to get a show out each week, and there's a structure and outcome they're looking for. It's amazing what you can "fix in the edit" even if the reality is a little different. Indeed when you take all of these into account, I'm not sure that the Grubstreet figure is meaningful and/or relevant. Adam On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:21 AM, djconner <[email protected]> wrote: > It's also characteristic of the restaurant owners on the show to not admit > there's a problem and look for help until it's probably too late. Watching > the show, you see a lot of restaurants that look like they could have > become long-term successes if they had brought Gordon Ramsay in two years > earlier. But by the time of the filming, their finances are in such bad > shape that one slow period (of the sort that even successful restaurants > have) is enough to sink them for good. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
