The Unexpected Origin of the Michelin Star
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- The Michelin Star system is a guide that rates restaurants out of three stars and the Michelin tire company sells…you guessed it, tires! But how are these two companies linked to one another?
The Michelin tire company was invented in 1889 by two French brothers, André and Édouard Michelin. However, there were only 3000 tires in the whole of France. The brothers had to come up with a way to sell people more tires. So they invented a free guide of all the best hotels, gas stations, mechanics and restaurants, in order to get people to explore France in their cars. As the years went on the brothers realized that people mainly wanted to know which restaurants were best. So they decided to start rating the restaurants with their Michelin stars.
Over a century after they both began, the guide rates over 40,000 establishments in over 24 territories, across 3 continents, while Michelin sells 200 million tires a year!
00:00 Intro
00:15 Cars to cuisine
00:35 The genius idea
01:10 Tell us about the restaurants!
01:39 1926 and onwards
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Tell us about a restaurant (anywhere in the world) that you love and your favorite meal on their menu! 🤩👇
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One the best places (best overall experience: the food, atmosphere, place, friendliest staff) was the Topdeck Cave restaurant in Capadoccia, Turkey. It's in a literal cave, the food is mouth-drooling good, served beautifully, and easily of the kindest owner family/wait staff I've ever encountered. They treated you like family. The mezze and the soup are delicious!
In a town called Aqua Caliente, near machu Pichu, Peru. This little shop is where the local eat, with only one menu item, chicken noodle soup + local warm drinks. Big 🍜 of chicken soup+ large piece of chicken, noodles+ a hard boiled egg 🥚 in it. After few hours hiking Machu Pichu, this Peruvian soup 🍲 was 5 stars for me 😋
When traveling abroad, I just judge how good a restaurant is by the crowds waiting in line 😅
A French tire company is the trusted authority on restaurants, meanwhile an Irish brewery (Guinness) is the trusted authority on world records. What a world we live in.
Guinness is as much of a joke as Michelin. Guinness records claims to have a standard of who can get a record and yet they give records to autocrats and dictators so their standard much be as low as the floor
A beer company for the record of “hold my beer”. Just makes too much sense.
I wouldn't call Guinness "trusted".
Precisely the reason why they can be trusted, operating in a space that won’t have any conflict of interest with their industry.
Guinness *was
So glad they’re back, 2023 had been rough 😮💨
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I like how her accent became more and more French as the video progresses XD
Yeah but it didn’t sound right at all ;)
She didn't say "restaurant" with French pronunciation 😢
I've heard that being a critic for Michelin is miserable. You're constantly on the road alone, can't talk to anybody (not even close family and I believe spouses) about your work and can't get too personal with others, the pay isn't as much as you'd think for something so prestigious and mostly goes towards travel (not even 100% sure they pay for travel).
I would do it for free. Fuck it, I would PAY if it meant paying half or something.
...but the power man...ha ha, and some decent eats.
So, you're allowed to tell your SPOUSE that you're a critic but not close friends in the case of...well, yk. And they definitely pay for transport.
I'm sure they're adequately paid. I would love that job.
@@FenixQubes Yes, poor pay with Michelin would be a sure way to encourage your staff to take bribes and create immeasurable harm to the brand.
Don’t know if they still stick to that “value for money” rule
That’s out the window a long time ago lol
It is rated based on going on deliberate trips to the restaurant.
Rather than being a metric centred around the quality of the food.
So it kinda works, since if the food was just good value for money 💰 and high quality, you would just get it delivered, because virtually every restaurant delivers. Even a lot of Michelin Star restaurants.
Having a Michelin star, for some chefs, its unbearable torture because your restaurant's status is based on how many stars it has. 2 stars according to Michelin is like 'worth a detour' and 3 stars is like 'worth a journey of a lifetime'. The disparities between the stars' criteria is sooo high that it puts unnecessary pressure on chefs to perform well, as gaining or losing a star can have dramatic effects on the restaurant's business. A number of chefs have either returned because it stifles their creativity (Sebastien Bras for example) or downright committed suicide because of the enormous pressure. It's already distressing to see the latter scenario happening, Bernard Loiseau in 2003 and more recently Benoit Violier in 2016. Loiseau would become the inspiration for Chef Gusteau in Disney and Pixar's 2007 film Ratatouille. That being said, why are we using rankings from a freaking tire company (of all companies) to base how good food is ???
I recently watched a movie named ‘Burnt’ starring Bradley Cooper and although it’s a work of fiction (not sure), the movie excellently captured what it takes to get that one extra star - the toll it takes on the psyche and the immense pressure chefs find themselves in (sometimes intentionally) for that ultimate glory. No pain, no gain though.
@OrangeDurito no pain no gain? At the cost of your life? Nah fam.
I mean, if a car runs on oil. We run on food, it just works.
Stupid but true.
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Easy to follow. Entertaining. Well-done!
Miss this channel, glad you guys are back now in 2023. Gonna binge watch your vids for sure.
Already knew this, but watched it just to make sure Great Big Story gets the views. 🤗
You're a real one! 🫶☺
@@GreatBigStory Can't have you disappearing again 🥹
WHAT!!?? How did I now just find out that you guys are back!? Well, this is 7 months late, but I missed you guys!!!! I'm so glad you guys are back!!
Love the French accent and how is gets progressively thicker over time 😂
I work in a tire shop and the “Michelin” tires have a good tread wear pattern. It’s an honor to be able to stock it in the inventory tire room along with the other tires.❤💯
Michelin Star, is the Death Note to some restaurateurs, it's both a blessing and a curse.
Sadly, thanks to Accenture's "help" with their bottom line, Michelin is now charging, not the restaurants (too obvious), but the regional and/or city tourism agencies to rate restaurants in their areas. So, you could have the best restaurant anywhere, but if the local Tourism Board doesn't pay Michelin the hundreds of thousands of dollars, you won't even be considered. Short-term bottom line improvement; long-term erosion of integrity and respect. André and Édouard are weeping in their graves, hoping that the future lack of credibility doesn't transfer to their tires!
Love the French accent here. It's so in theme
Thanks alot ❤
Very ingenious of them!
Amazing video, Michelin stars are great 👍
Another fact of Michelin :
- The restaurant should be open for all customer , either old or new one , Michelin ever want to give their star to one of Japanese restaurant but that restaurant only apply no first timer customer allowed so they reject the Michelin star
- Michelin star is actually rewarded to the restaurant not the chef directly , so the star will dissappear if the chef closes the restaurant business
This was so cute! 😂
WHY HAVE I SOMEHOW BEEN EXPECTING THIS???
😯👀 Great minds think alike?
That’s crazy I always thought they had nothing to do with each other!
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youtube.com/@user-food33?si=3y7gelN-tAMnB75I
Tom Hardy really taking any work he can get with this strike going on huh?
It's sad that this channel doesn't get the views it once did.
Its Baaaaack!!!!
now i can make the link between the two Michelin.
Most likely Gordon Ramsay would recognize who is the Michelin inspector 😅
If i could smell a michelin reviewer, i would already get 3 stars
Today we have 1 Bite Pizza Reviews, everyone knows the rules
The internet before the internet.
May I have a Croissant.
For a minute there, I thought the guy on the right was Tom Hardy 😂
Took me awhile to realize that they are from the same company
I thought this was a video about interstellar objects...lol.
1 star menu 250 euro (eat ok)
2 star menu 500 euro (steal need eat)
3 star menu over 750 euro (only smel the food)
youtube.com/@user-food33?si=3y7gelN-tAMnB75I
Can you say i need more boulets in french
why does the french accent in english sound fake despite the narrator clearly speaking french? weird 🤔
HELLO :D
I dunno. A Great Big Story without Beryl just feels wrong.💐
I never eat at Michelin starred restaurant but its like complex approach of two side of coin
Some restaurant might worth the star title and some of them sounded an overrated gimmick trap
I don't entirely hate Michelin starred restaurants but when i know deeper about it , probably i would know some deeper love and hate relationship about it
I know Michelin starred restaurant having an approach of buying experience rather than buying a daily food
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Is claudia romero the narrator?
How about more solutions, instead of problems?
Wait when did greasy big story come back
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Ah yes the thing that has ruined cooking for many a chef.
Michellin sells a lot of tires but it never make them tired or want to be retired
_Hon hon hon_
0:17 The cow was invented?
You forgot to add that Michelin is now a joke and many chefs don’t care about it and several have given their stars back because marinating them is more of a problem than a benefit. Many of the best restaurants in the world don’t have Michelin stars
I remember reading an op-ed from the owner of a 1-starred restaurant saying that having a star is a huge burden for them because it causes people to expect fine dining even though their restaurant is casual and has never claimed to be anything else
@@EnigmaticLucas yup, it’s more hassle than it’s worth
Honestly the Michelin guide is kind of a joke. Ask locals what's good instead.
Picking a restaurant at random is just as good as picking locals to ask at random.
@@CMCNestTnot quite ask 5 and you'll find names repeating
Cshitttttttteeeee. Michelin star a lot.
Listen, I'm very happy that Great Big Story is back to make videos, at the same time, this one was very lame
First!
I just found out that I hate french accent, Good video though,
Pick an accent 😆
Stupid @ss french accent is cringy to listen too, thank god theres subtitles, i wouldve skippeed this
France bad
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Not a monsieur thing of you to say
Na 😙 France good
@@hadelidell4285 France is France 🇫🇷
Literally everyone knows this
I didn't