What a Nightmare!

I finally got a chance to see the "Kitchen Nightmares" that featured Mama Maria's on Court St and man they slaughtered that poor bastard. They used all the fake shit that they pull on reality shows to make him look really bad.

First they had his employees spout out about how it was all Johns (the owner) fault. The manager who is a fucking weasel was in front of the camera saying how they couldn't change anything because John didn't want to change. Now this douche had been in the restaurant many times when we were there and he was a moron. He never did anything and would come over and go "How is everything?"  Well he should have know that it was taking forever for us to get our food and that order was always getting mixed up. I would always fix it with the waiter and he never brought anything positive to the experience of dining at the restaurant.

Then his chef was relentlessly critical. Look this douche is lucky he had a fuckin' job. But he is going "I would never do it like this" or "I know how to do it right but he won't let me." What a load of bullshit He could have been proactive and got things done if he wanted to do it. But he just slid along the barely tolerable edge of behavior. He never gave a shit he just pushed the food out every day.

Gordon Ramsey went into the cellar and took all of the food he had in the freezers and threw them out. He had tons of food like fresh pasta that they made and then froze. Now every restaurant does that. He had just overdone it.  He kept ordering and ordering even though he didn't have the business to turn over the product. So it just builds up and it was a big fuckin' mess.

They did a stupid makeover where they made it look like all the new yuppie/hipster restaurants in the neighborhood. They invited all these asshole bloggers and hipsters and they all praised the new menu and the new look. But guess what? I just walked past the place and it is totally empty. He lost the old school guys like me and the new people are not going in. I wanted to go just to show some support for a friend but the wife refuses to go.  You see the last time we went she got sick.  Just a little sick but she still refuses to go back.  Not sick like the phony bullshit on the show where the guy who ate bad lobster had to go in an ambulance. But just a little upset stomach.  So I don't see what the big deal is all about. We have been sick at one time or another after a meal in everyone of the restaurants that we love to go to. Sometimes that happens. It could be the food preparation. Or the age of the food. Or the chef didn't wash his hands. Who the fuck knows? But we go back to those places and shrug it off. But after she saw this show she is refusing to go. She said "I probably got a chicken cutlet that was three years old in there." Which I doubt. We had many great meals there  but they are now  banned from the rotation. I mean I might go on my own but when do I ever go out by myself. Never actually. 

Every time I pass the joint it is dead. Now you don't have to feel too sorry for him. The pizza store is a goldmine. He owns four brownstones in the neighborhood and gets tons of rental income. He has a bunch of Mexicans working for him who get less than the minimum wage. So he is not hurting. But he has to be a little humiliated.  I haven't seen him in a couple of days. I bet he is hiding out.

I hope he can turn it around.