My family is laughing at me that after I became a vegetarian, I started watching Food Network. Sort of compensatory action… Let them laugh, I enjoy watching professionals and where else you can see the results in one hour better than in cooking?
I am missing the tasting part of it, of course, but I put imagination to work. Sometimes I am even experiment in the kitchen, but my wife says the mess, that I cause in the process, outweighs my modest results.
Anyway, when I saw that Groupon ticket for half price to Robert Irvine’s show at King’s Center in Melbourne, I bought it and even talked my wife to accompany me. We used to have a small franchised restaurant in the Food Court of a Mall for 6 years, it sucked life out of us for 5 of those years, and we were glad we were out of this business… It left me with the deepest respect to those who survive in it.
Watching Robert’s “Restaurant Impossible”, where they transform a restaurant in two days, is very interesting. I understand that this is TV. In our restaurant we had excellent food, well thought of procedures, superb training, like franchises usually do. And still it was so tough…
On TV show he usually deals with people who do not have even an idea of their food or labor costs, by crap food, grossly mismanage restaurants…
It took me about an hour drive south, King Center is right where the campus of Brevard College, nice building… We ended in a huge hall for way over a thousand people, and though it wasn’t packed to capacity, there were still not that many empty seats.
I could not understand how you can do a kitchen thing in such a vast space, and turned out it was not really a kitchen thing. He cooked something, of course, there were people tasting, but it more resembled an act of mediocre stand up comedy. The crowd was quite perceptive, so I can’t say he did underestimate his audience, he sure didn’t.
See how many people were claiming they were the worst cooks.
My wife did not want to go and I lured her promising that she would look at cooking differently, no longer waited for cooking revelations of a guru, nor was she entertained by Robert Irvine climbing the rope, showing his muscles (huge).
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