He is no doubt an excellent chef, and my favourite video is him showing a room of high school students how to put a stir fry meal together. All without a word spoken, so he know's his stuff. But he is not yet a business man. You know what you know. I don't know if one man can be both. What I know about business is that everything is a risk, because you are paddling in a river of economic cycles. As for "too big, too fast", one only has to look at Starbucks.
I think he's a very hard working guy......and is likely a good sous chef. I do not think he's a great chef by any margin. Sad to see his business fail but he's been trying to play catch up to Gordon for decades. No one can catch Gordon.
Ras Cricket - "he's been trying to play catch up to Gordon for decades" As what? A restaurateur, a chef, or a celebrity? Because the two occupy completely different ecosystems as chefs and restaurateurs. And celebrity wise, Jamie is every bit as successful as Ramsey. And going by net worth, more so. "No one can catch Gordon" - Gordon never caught Marco. Ramsay's career is predicated on doing an imitation of an imitation of French haute cuisine. Does it very well, but there are no shortage of far better, more interesting and revolutionary chefs in the culinary world.
Or a very edgy and rebellious chef. You can't make that many best selling cookbooks without being a good chef but he's had his fair share of anguish from multiple cultures hating how he tries to make "authentic" culturally important dishes only to soil it with chili jam, tofu, chorizo, soba noodles, etc.
How did Oliver gain fame at the young age that he did... How does Oliver make egg fried shit after all these years... Silken tofu in a stir fry, what an idiot. Why don't you throw some blue fin sashimi into it too while you're at it
My city has both Jamie's Italian and Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen. Price wise, both are almost comparable, but for food and service, hands down Bread Street Kitchen is superior. From the moment we stepped in to each restaurants, it already tells a lot about the management and who definitely has more experience in the business.
I have never ate at both of their restaurants but I can tell his food was trash from the egg fried rice video.also I am Asian and he triggered me by putting water in egg fried rice in middle of cooking every Asian hated that
Lol this is a silly comparison you are comparing a restaurant of a average celebrity chef to a restaurant owned by a man that has earned 3 Michelin stars!!
Why Gordon's is successful these days is that he goes around the world and gets every cuisines,tastes,flavors and spices to make his dishes and he documents it
Absolutely right. I went to the Gatwick Airport restaurant. I paid 26gbp for a sirloin steak with fries. Nothing crazy about it. Steak wasn't that good, I was expecting a melting in mouth meat which I was far from. Also the technique used were pretty average (nothing fancy, just a aromatic butter put on top)... I did better at home the very next day. What a waste of money!
My parents brought me there for my 21st birthday and it was just... really average. It was disappointing. We thought because it was an expensive restaurant with Jamie Oliver's name that it was going to be a special birthday present, but I honestly make better Italian food at home than what I had there. So we never went back again, never would have even thought about going back. I assume other people had that experience and that's why it closed.
@@anakitiktokwi2939 Not really. He's alright Jack, but the people that were put out of work at his restaurants aren't. Feeling sorry for them does not cut it, and if they have been hit with anti disclosure gag orders, there's a lot to be said that hasn't been said.
Tbh I'm not trying to throw ppl under the bus. But the last time I've tried 1 of Gordon's restaurants at the London Airport, the food was so-so too. I found it quite bland.
yeah im still shaking my head at ramsey getting accused of cultural appropriation when he doesn't even cook in a different town without sampling the local produce. he pays homage, Oliver just bastardizes it.
I used to be a.bartender at one of his restaurants and there was a massive problem with management They were nasty and up their own arses. Didnt appreciate the talented staff and never listened to criticism. I got fired for speaking out and offering better ways to work on the bar
@@glendooer6211 . ....unfortunately that's the case. Wherever there's hierarchical bollox, Gobshites rise to just below "management level" where their self-importance shines.
@@jeremydupas Yes but wehn they called the people the P word, said it smelt, too take it back with them, went around opening windows and and getting beaten up for cooking thier national dish and berratring then to steal it as thier own invention is a frankly not cricket old boy!
The Jamie's Italian in Perth where I live actually had terrific food that wasn't outrageously expensive compared to its competitors. Unfortunately the quality seems to decline over time, but in its formative period they produced very good food.
@@andrewjenkinson8948 went to the one in Adelaide a few years ago and I guess my Mum and I were too old .... no one came near us to show us a table so .... we went somewhere else ! Stupid ... we were on holidays and would have spent $ on the lunch.
Went to Jamie's Italian in Singapore a few years ago. We were disappointed. Menu was quite ordinary and uninspiring. Food was only average. Was expensive but not a lot more than other restaurants. But then again most things in Singapore are expensive with taxes and "service" charges attached to everything. Grog prices are ridiculous. Went to an Italian a couple of nights earlier across the road from Jamie's. Food was good. Restaurant layout, ambiance, etc was better and it was a bit cheaper than Jamie's. The overall experience was such that I had no desire to go a Jamie's restaurant again.
😂😂😂😂.. This channel is constantly putting out content without facts! Absolute crap! Plus You’ve clearly never been to a Jamie Oliver restaurant if you think the food is poor!.. also it’s fair price I think! Stick to maccy Ds because you know nothing!..
They opened one restaurant in Vienna. You go there once at most. The food is standard and overpriced especially as there are hundreds of authentic Italian restaurants around. Gross miscalculation!
That sounds like a bad business move, opening an Italian resto by a Brit who cooks non-traditional pasta in a country where amazing traditional pasta is commonplace. That's the same set of problems as what Starbucks did in Australia. Don't know the local clientele, opened too fast thinking they can coast on their brand, and open in a place full of better, more authentic competition. *facepalm*
I went to one of Jamie’s restaurants once, food wasn’t great and was priced high. I thought it wasn’t worth going another time, I never stepped into another Jamie’s. He was fun to watch when he started with the first tv series, young and fun, cooked in a tiny apartment. That was great to watch but that was it. Great to watch, not great to eat.
I had a few outlets in Central London, when JO was setting up his new brand, he came to the market offering +80-100% on rent for landlords. You can imagine what it did to the market. I was served a +100% raise on my next lease review. He is a straight out idiot, obviously he has no idea how to run a business. Apart from his restaurants going down, he has forced many others out of business due to this.
The simple truth is that even though I like Jamie, I’ve bought his books and cooked his recipes and he’s done a lot of great work to improve people’s diets, the food in his restaurants just isn’t that good.
Interesting. I too cooked a lot of his stuff and loved it but never been to his restaurant. Frankie and bennies had to be the worst Italian restaurant. Food is generic and feels like cooked from frozen, salad is limp, service sucks, price is high.
I remember years and years ago I went to one in London with my mum. I had mussel pasta and it had shell pieces everywhere in it. I couldn’t complain right away as it would have upset my mum and kinda ruined the dinner so I sent a message directly to the restaurant afterwards (not public). They called me back and interrogated me, it was almost comical. In the end they offered me a free meal, but made it really hard for me to take up that offer (it couldn’t be on weekends or dinner). Just weirdly bureaucratic...the cost of these calls alone from a call centre would have been really high and the restaurant itself never ‘dealt’ with me. It seems like they never really held anyone accountable for quality and there you go, people stop going.
@Von Poppie. I've been in the industry for twenty years. Its always best to complain on the night then the dish would of been shown to the chefs. A good restaurant would of given you a complimentary bowl of soup while you wait for your meal to be made. Complaining on the night would of also avoided the questions later. It was after all yourself that wrote the letter so you can't blame them for questioning a dish that was made days earlier. Did a waiter ask you if your enjoying your meal on the night? and did you say yes? I've been in plenty of restaurants that would of simply said "why didn't you say something when we asked you if your happy with your meal?" Believe me there's nothing worse than checking tables thinking that everyone's happy to get a letter of complaint a few day later. This is a big reason why trip advisor if often hated by restaurants. I'm not having a go I just think you should see it from their point of view and plaese in future complain on the night and everyone's happy
Ohhhh Yes, the Pre-Brexit has already hurt alot of Businesses and alot more will go down the Drain when Brexit has been through! The more Partners you have, the more easy you‘ll get your Job done. Leaving such a big Market with all its Benefits will hurt Big Time, no matter if they make Contracts to be some kind of Partner. The EU is way more powerful than dumby Boris has told you. Banks and other Big Companys have already left, they know what will come...
I disagree hes probably suffered a lot mentally over the collapse of his restaurant chain, put yourself in his shoes its not just the employees who got it rough. Imagine everything you worked for over your life fall and collapse.
@@zbridgjpxupzm So because he has various assets accumulated over the years hes magically "fine" to you just because he doesn't have to work a day in his life doesn't mean he isn't suffering over this huge loss. Sure it takes a lot of stress away knowing your set for the future however money does not equal happiness my friend im sure this loss hit him hard.
Depending on where you live, it's likely to be a question of what the market is for Italian cuisine. In places like London or NYC or Melbourne (etc) there's so much competition. In a smaller market like my hometown of Perth a concept like this had a much better shot of making a mark. Likewise Singapore. I was truly impressed with the meals I had at the Perth outpost the first few times I went, but I noticed a decline in quality over time.
@@andrewjenkinson8948 singapore? Really? The foodiest country on the planet with Michelin star Street food and you think jamies bland food had a good shot at survival? Please explain.
I discovered Jamie way back when he was the Naked Chef or something like that and then quickly forgot him; I intuitively like Jamie, he impresses as a genuine type of soul. On the face of it, I'm sorry he's experiencing bad fortune. I hope time brings him good cheer.
But that would require actual work. Jamie just liked to show up for cameras and be smug. He has a whole team helping him with recipes and he still can't even get the basics correct. He seems to be all about the money and the "values" are just for show
Haha. Exactly Just like most celebrity chef’s restaurants. Shite food and high prices The meals ain’t even cooked by the top chefs let alone Jamie himself
Anthony Bourdain cooking Jamie Oliver's Italian recipes in Italy for Italians and their reactions to it is one of the greatest bits of TV you could possibly treat yourself to.
If he claims he does not know where it went wrong...as an investor I would be VERY worried working with him again. Bottom line: overpriced mediocre food.
Tbh Jamie Oliver was always an overrated chef. It's his personality and his family man image that captured people which isn't a bad thing just doesn't make you a talented chef.
Jason Rollins I agree with this, but his talent is how he puts it across which is very easy to follow and he doesn’t come across as an arrogant prick like Gordon Ramsay. The contrast between the two is night and day. Jamie is much more watchable compared to Gordon.
Angry Justinian Agree! Ramsay is a boss. Doesn’t sugar coat. I’ve been a chef for twenty years. You gotta take the truth at times. I respect Ramsay’s ways.
There's a Jamie's Italian in my city. I ordered food from there twice and the food was terrible both times. The rice was fucking overcooked and tough. It's shocking that such a renowned chef would associate his name with that kind of food. It's probably one of the worst food experiences I've ever had.
Never liked his cooking or his restaurants, blaming Brexit for inflated prices is a cowards recourse. Being greedy, expanding too fast and slapping his name on anything for money is the real reason.
He isn't the only one. Emeril's restaurants go from average to bad. People go at first to be at a famous chef's restaurant, but don't come back because the food isn't so great.
Absolutely true. I went to his restaurant when it opened in our area. It is amongst perhaps 6 or 7 other Italian restaurants and without a doubt it was THE worst food. The decor was terrible and the whole experience left you feeling empty. No love and no passion. Nothing about it was average let alone special. Our Jamie restaurant closed 12 mths after opening.
He's also talking about University crowds. All my pals who were students at the Uni went to eat at other places. Does Jamie not realise how poor students are? Mans living on a cloud
He slapped his face and name on the restaurant and thought he could charge a good amount of money for mediocre food, with a cuisine which is done everywhere, and done well. He also had them everywhere. Either go the McDonalds/Nandos route of many places, cheap/well priced food, cheap ingredients, but tasty. or the high end route, with few restaurants with high standards (doesn't have to be fancy, but the standards and price you pay have to be worth it). Maybe also diversifying instead of only being Italian in a world where everyone does Italian would have helped.
@Marnie Dezzie There is no need for most people to waste money in restaurants to begin with unless you are out of town. Why pay 3 to 5 times as much for a meal you could make at home. Most restaurants deserve to be out of business ...
Basically, it's lack of attention to detail. They stopped delivering quality, and the price was too high. For restaurants with his name attached to it, he need to run a tighter ship with hiring the right people and focusing on quality of food, service, ambience.
A Chef is someone that knows how to cook and run a professional kitchen, nothing more! Who's a fraud? The thing is Gordon has his business empire better set up, probably because of better executives and his own experience, which is greater and less naive then Jamie!
@@babyjiren9676 As a chef? Or as a food industry tycoon? The latter is obvious, but the first one I don't know, since I've never eaten a meal cooked by him and I'm certain the clusterfuck of a mess his restaurants became doesn't represent his capacity as a chef!
Long before brexit Oliver's restaurants were pretty mediocre and overpriced. After the brand recognition of his name wears off, all you're left with is an okayish restaurant that's way too expensive.
“Let’s end on a positive note...” he’s not going anywhere. He has millions to his name. He just bought another house... positive note for him but not for the 600 people he laid off!
I went to a Jamies Italian once. It didn't know what it wanted it be, a standard Italian restaurant or more upmarket dining, so it mashed the two together, which resulted in expensive standard Italian food that was cheaper, and better elsewhere. I'd say the failure was more confusion in terms of its market than anything else. I would also add that many people don't eat out for Italian that much anymore, as it's the easiest food to make at home.
Went there once with my Italian gf. Here were the problems: 1 - 100g of pasta on the plate 2 - Bland 3 - £25 per dish (keep in mind this is a starch dish not a steak) 4 - 25 minutes to offer us drinks... When it arrived, I asked where the rest of it was in earnest. Tried it, told the waitress politely our experience was a restaurant that was understaffed offering food that was tasteless, overpriced and under-seasoned. Refused to pay, left and had steak for just £10 more pp. How you mess up pasta is beyond me. That's what happens when you try to have a million restaurants without a proper screening process. It's just your name stamped on to something.
A friend of mine went to one of his restaurants. She told me it was a rip off, and not he best. So in the end, it just couldn't compete with other restaurants that are better.
you know what, I had a jamie oliver downstairs and there had been 3 levels of offices upstairs, they refused to sell takeaway meals off their menu. his restaurants aren't fine dining, so I didn't understand the logic.
He faked his "wokeness" though, he became famous being a healthy food advocate, especially for children, and then caused scandals for himself when he turned around and served food even more appallingly unhealthy than what you could get at a McDonald's. He'd be doing better if he wasn't;t a phoney and didn't stretch out so thin for the sake of greed. Pathetic man, and he's made himself fat in the process, so everyone can see how fake he is.
I've tried some of his recipes- they're good. But it was a complete opposite experience dining in at one of his Fifteen restaurants. Besides being grossly overpriced, the food was just substandard. I remember the linguine ala vongole I ordered which I paid close to £20 for that turned up so dry; not to mention the skint portion that was served. The bread basket was abysmal. The bread was stale and not properly covered. It didn't taste that good either. I'm not surprised though, cos his bread recipes are not the best out there. I can say for certain I make better bread.
Jamie is a wonderful cook, but Gordon Ramsey is a great chef, trained in business, hotel, and everything needed to run restaurants... it needs more than a passionate cooking to run places like this...
A. Restaurant business is tough even under the best conditions. Overly quick expansion without personal oversight is a recipe for disaster. B. He may be a good cook, but doesn't have the business acumen to make run a large company. C. He is what the Brits would refer to as a "wanker".
We a Jamie Oliver brand mortar and pestle at home, purchased from the local Ross for $10. Don't know or care about the man much, but it's one of the best mortar and pestles I have used.
40 closed and that's not all of them. Sounds like he had way too many. Sounds like a lousy businessman. That said, as entertaining as I man find him, I can't say I've really every been eager to try his food.
Because newscasters are supposed, trained, to speak in hyper disneychipmunkese ... tiresome, isn't it ... I mean isnnnit ... yawn. Maybe subtitles would come in handy lol. Or was she on helium? Terrible whatever.
We ate at one of his establishments. Food was mediocre but expensive for what we got. My wife also got sick from spoiled seafood (calamari). Every one if his restaurants should be shut down.
@@lauraveritysavage4542 yep. Manager took seafood off of the bill. We told him we expected a better dining experience, his reply was "you have other dining choices available".
I keep up and restaurants fail 90% of the time according to Government numbers. Been that way since the early 80's maybe longer, that's when I started.
Having spend most of my life in Restaurant business, what I found after three visits to Jamie's Restaurants is that the taste of the food and the size of the portions did not reflect the price he is charging. I think this is the main reason.
The Sugar tax is garbage. I only drink water myself but my granny drinks club orange all the time and it went from £1 a bottle to £2.50 most of the smaller shops won't even sell the full sugar version anymore because the price is so high.
The sugar tax is also a way to extort customers. The sugar tax for club orange is 48p for a 2L bottle but they've still increased the price by £1 or more, probably citing admin costs relating to it.
Ramsay isn’t as sainted as people who like personalities think. Most of the American restaurants he ‘saved’ lasted a year or less. It was never a long term fix.
@@adamquirke6024 Ramsay can only help them by showing them how to run the business properly. Once Ramsay is done, it's basically up to the owners whether to follow his steps or completely ignore them and return to the old ways, not to mention some of them have quite severe financial issues which often lead to close down of the restaurants. So Ramsay is usually (if not never) not the reason why many of the restaurants he helped have to close down.
He got greedy. Should have kept his restaurant brand at a much smaller scale - make them profitable and grow slowly and cautiously. Employ a sharp accountant too who will be brutally honest about his financials.
But Ramsey gets them up to the 2 star Michelin standard before he leaves it in capable hands. Oliver doesn't even have 1 Michelin star so it's hardly a surprise his restaurants are all shutting down.
I ate at Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant In Brighton UK 3 or 4 times back in 2010. The only good meal I had was the first. The second was poor I went back once or twice in hopes of a good meal like the first. It never happened. I gave up after that.
I went to the one near Leicester Square. Staff were lovely and very attentive. However, out of 8 of us, four couldn't eat their meals because of the excessive salt. It was too expensive for what is was too.
He partnered with a grocery chain in Canada, Sobeys for his dedicated line of pasta, sauce etc. Way overpriced and still used 'Soybean' oil, garbage overpriced ingredients.
I have had bad service at his restaurants about 5 times now..i went again a few months ago and it was fantastic,service, food brilliant. Having said that I do think a lot of the problems are with him himself. People got just sick of him telling them what they should and should not be eating all the bloody time. Always on tv banging on about school dinners and sugar in drinks etc. Then expecting people to go and eat said food in his own restaurants...it pissed me off anyway.
andrew marsh I refused to eat at his restaurants based solely on his telling us what we should and shouldn’t eat. He can go fuck himself. I’m glad his restaurants are closing, and I’m glad his Jamie at home line is gone. He deserves it.
@@deeprose4 Dear, thats not a constructive criticism but more of a condemnation. You would want him to improve & care about your health not the opposite dont you?
Used to work as a food writer for a magazine, got invited to Jamie's Italian. When i delivered my article to the editor, he looked at me and said "we aren't featuring anything negative in our magazine. people prefer to know only about the good restaurants, so i'm not publishing this." nuff' said.
His foods are way way too expensive. Who on earth would pay £25 for a salad when you can get a salad ingrediance in any high street store for £5 and make 4 to 6 portions at home for way less.
Greed pure greed. Moaning at the minimum wage increase for his loyal workers whilst lording it up. Personally the people, or victims of his endeavours will end up being his staff. I bet he’s made sure he will still keep loads of dosh. I don’t want to add anything else not that I’ve run out of words but rather it would serve no purpose
i feel bad for his staff.. working there getting payed minimum wage.. u cant expect anything good to come from it.. might aswell work at mc d's, they pay u the same and u know they aint going to close up shit..
Why did people get "angry over a little bit of sausage"? Because Chorizo is NOT an ingredient of Paella. He needs to do better research before 're-designing ' some other country's national dish. Not surprised his empire is collapsing,
Itsmeintorre Spain agree. he literally sabotaged Thai curry and mixed with ingredients that were not even from south east region, and called it Thai. That is quite insulting.
Love JO, learned so much with his videos, and i have a few of his books. However, i had the worst spaghetti and meatballs of my life at his restaurant. It was dry, cold, muddy like cement and the pasta come way over cooked. BTW i can cook the same pasta using his recipe getting way better results. And every friends of mine that ate there told me the same story. Call Gordon.
used to love jamie , and couldnt stand ramsey , jamie used to be great easy cook dishes But he changed he started getting too big for his boots and TELLING us what we should eat and expecting kids to be happy eating his healthy salads etc etc , literally forcing schools to not feed kids certain foods.as for ramsey thought he was a rude obnoxious idiot but the guy is brill , can cook and way he goes in saves buisnesses omg . plus he very entertaining lol. loved oliver when he was a happy studenty kinda grass routes cook who sadly lost his way
There was a Jamie's Italian 10mins walk from me. I tried it twice. The food was below the standard of other local Italian restaurants and more expensive. People realised this and stopped going. It's really that simple.
Simple, truthful yet a underrated comment for most of business experts above. I read things like " he had too many restaurants" or " he should have targeted students and tourists". Gordon Ramsay's and other famous chefs got even more restaurants which were opened almost simultaneously. Students....Tourists....really? And why a tourist would pay to try Italian cuisine made by a British man in UK ? And if you wanted to eat Italian, why choose him when there're plenty of authentic Italian restaurants nearby? And why a student with a 60k loan to pay has to choose him over a nandos or even a kebab/ chicken shop ? Those to blame are all his lawyers and accountants, absolutely incompetent pricks.
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What are your thoughts of Jamie Oliver and his endeavors?
He would do better to stick to books and TV shows.
Admiration.
He is no doubt an excellent chef, and my favourite video is him showing a room of high school students how to put a stir fry meal together. All without a word spoken, so he know's his stuff. But he is not yet a business man. You know what you know. I don't know if one man can be both. What I know about business is that everything is a risk, because you are paddling in a river of economic cycles. As for "too big, too fast", one only has to look at Starbucks.
I think he's a very hard working guy......and is likely a good sous chef. I do not think he's a great chef by any margin. Sad to see his business fail but he's been trying to play catch up to Gordon for decades. No one can catch Gordon.
Ras Cricket - "he's been trying to play catch up to Gordon for decades" As what? A restaurateur, a chef, or a celebrity? Because the two occupy completely different ecosystems as chefs and restaurateurs. And celebrity wise, Jamie is every bit as successful as Ramsey. And going by net worth, more so.
"No one can catch Gordon" - Gordon never caught Marco. Ramsay's career is predicated on doing an imitation of an imitation of French haute cuisine. Does it very well, but there are no shortage of far better, more interesting and revolutionary chefs in the culinary world.
Uncle Roger's roast on Jamie's egg fried rice, ramen, and green curry kinda tell you that Oliver is no chef but a really confident brand ambassador.
Or a very edgy and rebellious chef. You can't make that many best selling cookbooks without being a good chef but he's had his fair share of anguish from multiple cultures hating how he tries to make "authentic" culturally important dishes only to soil it with chili jam, tofu, chorizo, soba noodles, etc.
@@DavidCarloAFermo I won’t call it rebellious. I’d just call it no attention to details
How did Oliver gain fame at the young age that he did... How does Oliver make egg fried shit after all these years... Silken tofu in a stir fry, what an idiot. Why don't you throw some blue fin sashimi into it too while you're at it
Haiyaaaaa!
facts 🤣
My city has both Jamie's Italian and Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen. Price wise, both are almost comparable, but for food and service, hands down Bread Street Kitchen is superior. From the moment we stepped in to each restaurants, it already tells a lot about the management and who definitely has more experience in the business.
I have never ate at both of their restaurants but I can tell his food was trash from the egg fried rice video.also I am Asian and he triggered me by putting water in egg fried rice in middle of cooking every Asian hated that
@@cringyhuman3210 especially *Packed Rice*
@@cringyhuman3210 lol sounds disgusting to me too. Lemme find that video 😂
Ramsay's resto are superb. I love their beef wellington. 😋😋
Lol this is a silly comparison you are comparing a restaurant of a average celebrity chef to a restaurant owned by a man that has earned 3 Michelin stars!!
Why Gordon's is successful these days is that he goes around the world and gets every cuisines,tastes,flavors and spices to make his dishes and he documents it
He also travels around the world to improve his palette
And he makes sure that the head chef's and cooks that are employed in his restaurant are trusted to uphold top quality service and taste
Don't forget the respect he gives to all of these different cuisines.
He is dogshit at italian food tho and thats something jamie does much more authentically.
@@nickwoolley7368 dude Joe bastianich has complemented Gordon's Italian.
It's good.
Tried a pasta in his Sydney chain and I couldn't help but notice how bland it was and that I could've easily cooked a tastier pasta dish at home.
Well.. He is British. Brits are known to have tasteless bland food.
@@archiethegardener5732 I think they are more on sugar dose than on normal sweet,sour, salty type thing? balance of diet🤣🤣🤣
Same - it was very average and very expensive.
@@archiethegardener5732 true af
@@archiethegardener5732 even back then they knew their food was bland or else why would they conquer 1/4 of the world just for spices
He broke the golden rule: Don't be BIG - Just be GREAT at what you do
The reason they closed was because of very average food with appalling service at high prices.
Typical TV parasite.
Yes! Ordered prawn /shrimp diavlo. Tasted exactly how i make it at home!
Eddy Babe i remember a restaurant at oslos airport, overpriced 4/10 food with snobby dogs working there
Absolutely right. I went to the Gatwick Airport restaurant. I paid 26gbp for a sirloin steak with fries. Nothing crazy about it. Steak wasn't that good, I was expecting a melting in mouth meat which I was far from. Also the technique used were pretty average (nothing fancy, just a aromatic butter put on top)...
I did better at home the very next day. What a waste of money!
I had a meal at his restaurant in Birmingham. Average at best, very dissapointed with the food.
We had his restaurant in our town (in the Netherlands). Prices were too high. 19 euros for 1 spaghetti? It was not THAT good, lol.
His simple recipe to cook at home worked so well but his restaurant version is abit lacking.
Are you from Arnhem?
His restaurants were largely based on his star power from tv and books. And when that fades or slightly dims, it can have horrific results.
No plate of spaghetti is.
Tilburg?
Best get on Kitchen nightmares and have Gordon Ramsey help save it.. 👍🏼
That would be interesting..
I'd pay money to see Gordon shouting in Jamie's face!!!!
N it would close soon after. Great tv tho
Good idea. It would make for great TV! I think Gordon and Jamie are friends.
That would be worth watching
My parents brought me there for my 21st birthday and it was just... really average. It was disappointing. We thought because it was an expensive restaurant with Jamie Oliver's name that it was going to be a special birthday present, but I honestly make better Italian food at home than what I had there. So we never went back again, never would have even thought about going back. I assume other people had that experience and that's why it closed.
🤣🤣🤣🤣Poor him
@@anakitiktokwi2939 Not really. He's alright Jack, but the people that were put out of work at his restaurants aren't. Feeling sorry for them does not cut it, and if they have been hit with anti disclosure gag orders, there's a lot to be said that hasn't been said.
Tbh I'm not trying to throw ppl under the bus. But the last time I've tried 1 of Gordon's restaurants at the London Airport, the food was so-so too. I found it quite bland.
I went to his chain in singapore back in 2019. The food was average for slightly above price. Its already closed anyway.
And then everyone in the room clapped, right?
"Its because Jamie dont use MSG" - Uncle Roger, probably
I see you a man of culture
I see, i see, fuiyoh! A man of culture
On the other hand, chilli jam...
Gordon Ramsay should film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares in a Jamie Oliver restaurant.
You realise that show is complete bullshit, don't you?
@@Aardvarked88 And the WWE is staged? Wow
LOL
I would watch that. It would be hilarious.
@@Aardvarked88 The UK version is filmed like an actual documentary and is very real. Its the American version that bull s@@t
Because when he cook other country food, he didn’t learn their culture or what not to use in that dish. Not like Gorden.
yeah im still shaking my head at ramsey getting accused of cultural appropriation when he doesn't even cook in a different town without sampling the local produce. he pays homage, Oliver just bastardizes it.
@@goldenblairr THANKS
Gordon*
@@alessia2432 THAAAAYNKS 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
What is a ...Gorden?
I used to be a.bartender at one of his restaurants and there was a massive problem with management
They were nasty and up their own arses. Didnt appreciate the talented staff and never listened to criticism. I got fired for speaking out and offering better ways to work on the bar
Found out after yrs of working do your job as instructed collect your pay..No one cares about you and will no stand by you.
GLEN Dooer exact
@@glendooer6211 .
....unfortunately that's the case.
Wherever there's hierarchical bollox, Gobshites rise to just below "management level" where their self-importance shines.
i bet you probably deserved it though, poor snowflake.
@@gazzaclarkson2547 Why would you say that - you're a piece of crap floating in the toilet ...
He taught everyone to cook, no one eats out anymore
LOL You might be on to something. He, amongst others, have done the same thing for me.
Gracebeliever077 and me, i rarely eat out, i cook home cooked meals, thanks to jamie and other amazing chefs
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Link Age ahaha 👏
And now Jamie’s “egg fried rice” has been destroyed by Uncle Roger.
Egg and fried recipies are stolen from Asians.
@@binagarten4667 Stolen? Far as I'm concerned anyone can cook anything they want? Lol
@@jeremydupas Yes but wehn they called the people the P word, said it smelt, too take it back with them, went around opening windows and and getting beaten up for cooking thier national dish and berratring then to steal it as thier own invention is a frankly not cricket old boy!
@@binagarten4667 okay? I don't see what this has to do with the comment?
@@jeremydupas It is that egg fired rice is a ethnic dish and not British.
Simple facts. Terrible food, Tiny portions. Too expensive. Staff more interested in chatting to their mates than actually serving you.
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The Jamie's Italian in Perth where I live actually had terrific food that wasn't outrageously expensive compared to its competitors. Unfortunately the quality seems to decline over time, but in its formative period they produced very good food.
@@andrewjenkinson8948 went to the one in Adelaide a few years ago and I guess my Mum and I were too old .... no one came near us to show us a table so .... we went somewhere else ! Stupid ... we were on holidays and would have spent $ on the lunch.
Went to Jamie's Italian in Singapore a few years ago. We were disappointed. Menu was quite ordinary and uninspiring. Food was only average. Was expensive but not a lot more than other restaurants. But then again most things in Singapore are expensive with taxes and "service" charges attached to everything. Grog prices are ridiculous.
Went to an Italian a couple of nights earlier across the road from Jamie's. Food was good. Restaurant layout, ambiance, etc was better and it was a bit cheaper than Jamie's. The overall experience was such that I had no desire to go a Jamie's restaurant again.
gp.....rude !
😂😂😂😂.. This channel is constantly putting out content without facts! Absolute crap! Plus You’ve clearly never been to a Jamie Oliver restaurant if you think the food is poor!.. also it’s fair price I think! Stick to maccy Ds because you know nothing!..
They opened one restaurant in Vienna. You go there once at most. The food is standard and overpriced especially as there are hundreds of authentic Italian restaurants around. Gross miscalculation!
Wanted to comment exactly this before reading your comment. The food is horribly bland there and way overpriced
Agree. Everybody saw it coming by simply eating there once -except Jamie and his management.
SERVAS!
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That sounds like a bad business move, opening an Italian resto by a Brit who cooks non-traditional pasta in a country where amazing traditional pasta is commonplace. That's the same set of problems as what Starbucks did in Australia. Don't know the local clientele, opened too fast thinking they can coast on their brand, and open in a place full of better, more authentic competition. *facepalm*
I went to one of Jamie’s restaurants once, food wasn’t great and was priced high. I thought it wasn’t worth going another time, I never stepped into another Jamie’s. He was fun to watch when he started with the first tv series, young and fun, cooked in a tiny apartment. That was great to watch but that was it. Great to watch, not great to eat.
Thomas Vo Had the same experience in Aberdeen. Overpriced and just not that special, sadly
I had a few outlets in Central London, when JO was setting up his new brand, he came to the market offering +80-100% on rent for landlords. You can imagine what it did to the market. I was served a +100% raise on my next lease review. He is a straight out idiot, obviously he has no idea how to run a business. Apart from his restaurants going down, he has forced many others out of business due to this.
The simple truth is that even though I like Jamie, I’ve bought his books and cooked his recipes and he’s done a lot of great work to improve people’s diets, the food in his restaurants just isn’t that good.
hahahaha burn
Saintscott67. If he has done a lot to improve people’s diets, why are we still a nation of obese people?
@@NSW-ye3xw he said improve... Not resolve
Guy Smith I know what he said. He could do with taking his own advise, the telly tubby
Interesting. I too cooked a lot of his stuff and loved it but never been to his restaurant. Frankie and bennies had to be the worst Italian restaurant. Food is generic and feels like cooked from frozen, salad is limp, service sucks, price is high.
Nobody can afford $30 spaghetti that you can make at home for $3. Well, except the 1%
TheMabes69 actually it’s just $2!!😀
Those actual fine dinings actually have fine and fresh ingredients. Jamie depends on his celeb chef status for his cheap ingredients.
Order something else then
Why doesn't Jaime start a line of food products? He could call the company "Jamie's Own".
And the 1% doesn't want to eat at these places lol
He made Ramen with soba noodle.... Fried Rice with Jam.... I can see why he failed....
I remember years and years ago I went to one in London with my mum. I had mussel pasta and it had shell pieces everywhere in it. I couldn’t complain right away as it would have upset my mum and kinda ruined the dinner so I sent a message directly to the restaurant afterwards (not public). They called me back and interrogated me, it was almost comical. In the end they offered me a free meal, but made it really hard for me to take up that offer (it couldn’t be on weekends or dinner). Just weirdly bureaucratic...the cost of these calls alone from a call centre would have been really high and the restaurant itself never ‘dealt’ with me. It seems like they never really held anyone accountable for quality and there you go, people stop going.
Just here to say it's very sweet you didn't want to upset your mum.
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It shows the kids has got it into his head , he's going downhill now , see his TV series moves to is lt chanell 4 or 5 .saids it all.
you want better deals, you gotta make it public. sad to say but true.
@Von Poppie. I've been in the industry for twenty years. Its always best to complain on the night then the dish would of been shown to the chefs. A good restaurant would of given you a complimentary bowl of soup while you wait for your meal to be made.
Complaining on the night would of also avoided the questions later. It was after all yourself that wrote the letter so you can't blame them for questioning a dish that was made days earlier.
Did a waiter ask you if your enjoying your meal on the night? and did you say yes? I've been in plenty of restaurants that would of simply said "why didn't you say something when we asked you if your happy with your meal?" Believe me there's nothing worse than checking tables thinking that everyone's happy to get a letter of complaint a few day later. This is a big reason why trip advisor if often hated by restaurants.
I'm not having a go I just think you should see it from their point of view and plaese in future complain on the night and everyone's happy
Brexit has nothing to do with his failure
That fucker took away my turkey twizzlers!
It hasn’t happened yet
Ohhhh Yes, the Pre-Brexit has already hurt alot of Businesses and alot more will go down the Drain when Brexit has been through!
The more Partners you have, the more easy you‘ll get your Job done. Leaving such a big Market with all its Benefits will hurt Big Time, no matter if they make Contracts to be some kind of Partner. The EU is way more powerful than dumby Boris has told you.
Banks and other Big Companys have already left, they know what will come...
It has *everything* to do with Brexit! You haven't been paying attention. GBP/euro exchange rate 2016: 1.70; today: 1.19!
@@Evan490BC So why did all his restaurants close in Australia........they having Brexit there too?
He opened too many places too soon,when Gordon said he actually needed 5 years in his chelsea restaurant to open his second restaurant
Luckily he collected his earnings first off the franchises, and his wealth of over 300 million is not affected. The ones to suffer are the employees.
Typically young people work in the restaurant industry, they go from job to job anyway. The one's that really suffered were the investors.
I disagree hes probably suffered a lot mentally over the collapse of his restaurant chain, put yourself in his shoes its not just the employees who got it rough. Imagine everything you worked for over your life fall and collapse.
@@hatosmato3425 He still has several mansions to live in and enough money in the bank to not work a day in his life... he is more than fine!
@@zbridgjpxupzm So because he has various assets accumulated over the years hes magically "fine" to you just because he doesn't have to work a day in his life doesn't mean he isn't suffering over this huge loss. Sure it takes a lot of stress away knowing your set for the future however money does not equal happiness my friend im sure this loss hit him hard.
@@hatosmato3425 living in mansions is not suffering...
Overpriced mediocre food
We have a real Italian beside his branch that knocks the spots of his offering
Depending on where you live, it's likely to be a question of what the market is for Italian cuisine. In places like London or NYC or Melbourne (etc) there's so much competition. In a smaller market like my hometown of Perth a concept like this had a much better shot of making a mark. Likewise Singapore. I was truly impressed with the meals I had at the Perth outpost the first few times I went, but I noticed a decline in quality over time.
@@andrewjenkinson8948 singapore? Really? The foodiest country on the planet with Michelin star Street food and you think jamies bland food had a good shot at survival? Please explain.
I discovered Jamie way back when he was the Naked Chef or something like that and then quickly forgot him; I intuitively like Jamie, he impresses as a genuine type of soul. On the face of it, I'm sorry he's experiencing bad fortune. I hope time brings him good cheer.
If Jamie only opened five and personally worked between them he would be booked out for the next 10years in advance
But that would require actual work. Jamie just liked to show up for cameras and be smug. He has a whole team helping him with recipes and he still can't even get the basics correct. He seems to be all about the money and the "values" are just for show
Not if he served egg fried rice.
@@fawziekefli2273 Fiyouuuuuuuuuu
That would require him to actually be good at cooking
The reason was- his food was shitty and overpriced.
That’s all
agree.. i tried it.. and was so shocked.. so bad
Yup.
A good low fat comment, all the detail and bang on accurate.
Haha. Exactly
Just like most celebrity chef’s
restaurants.
Shite food and high prices
The meals ain’t even cooked by the top chefs let alone Jamie himself
Exact-o-mundo. We ate there once and was shocked too that the food was crap and overpriced. 😡
Yup. the food was just plain bad.
Anthony Bourdain cooking Jamie Oliver's Italian recipes in Italy for Italians and their reactions to it is one of the greatest bits of TV you could possibly treat yourself to.
If he claims he does not know where it went wrong...as an investor I would be VERY worried working with him again. Bottom line: overpriced mediocre food.
Robert van Piggelen and he still made millions.
He is only a brand. People who are really run that buissness are behinde the courtains. It is a corporation. And he say what they tell Him to say.
Just hire Nino, he'll clean up that debt in no time. Pictures included.
I lol'ed, I guess you can have a like.
Good old Nino
Only if that debt is inside ghastly glass bottles hanging from the ceiling.
Who's Nino?
@Fernandino Alonsini chettipo aha
How to become millionaire? Starting out as billionaire and open restaurant "empire".
Billionaires go broke too dimwit..... Net worth is not by how much money you have. Its the wealth you own.
Lost in translation, son.
He hasn’t ever been a billionaire
I think it was originally a joke about aviation industry.
He opened average at best italian resturants in italy.
Enough said.
The food was a letdown...very average compared to what we expected in line with his image.
Tbh Jamie Oliver was always an overrated chef. It's his personality and his family man image that captured people which isn't a bad thing just doesn't make you a talented chef.
Jason Rollins I agree with this, but his talent is how he puts it across which is very easy to follow and he doesn’t come across as an arrogant prick like Gordon Ramsay. The contrast between the two is night and day. Jamie is much more watchable compared to Gordon.
Bada Bing888 I love watching Gordon Ramsay he’s mad because he is a good cook and people still like him because of his talent
Angry Justinian Agree! Ramsay is a boss. Doesn’t sugar coat. I’ve been a chef for twenty years. You gotta take the truth at times. I respect Ramsay’s ways.
Gordon Ramsey is absolutely an arrogant prick. He may be a good chef but he didn't build his celebrity on that alone.
There's a Jamie's Italian in my city. I ordered food from there twice and the food was terrible both times. The rice was fucking overcooked and tough. It's shocking that such a renowned chef would associate his name with that kind of food. It's probably one of the worst food experiences I've ever had.
I’ve seen enough Uncle Roger to expect that his rice would be terrible.
Never liked his cooking or his restaurants, blaming Brexit for inflated prices is a cowards recourse. Being greedy, expanding too fast and slapping his name on anything for money is the real reason.
He isn't the only one. Emeril's restaurants go from average to bad. People go at first to be at a famous chef's restaurant, but don't come back because the food isn't so great.
Absolutely true. I went to his restaurant when it opened in our area. It is amongst perhaps 6 or 7 other Italian restaurants and without a doubt it was THE worst food. The decor was terrible and the whole experience left you feeling empty. No love and no passion. Nothing about it was average let alone special. Our Jamie restaurant closed 12 mths after opening.
He's also talking about University crowds. All my pals who were students at the Uni went to eat at other places. Does Jamie not realise how poor students are? Mans living on a cloud
He slapped his face and name on the restaurant and thought he could charge a good amount of money for mediocre food, with a cuisine which is done everywhere, and done well. He also had them everywhere. Either go the McDonalds/Nandos route of many places, cheap/well priced food, cheap ingredients, but tasty. or the high end route, with few restaurants with high standards (doesn't have to be fancy, but the standards and price you pay have to be worth it). Maybe also diversifying instead of only being Italian in a world where everyone does Italian would have helped.
@Marnie Dezzie There is no need for most people to waste money in restaurants to begin with unless you are out of town. Why pay 3 to 5 times as much for a meal you could make at home. Most restaurants deserve to be out of business ...
Not enough pretentious customers over paying for food to keep a pretentious cooks overpriced lifestyle alive.
Saw the menu at his Melbourne restaurant, seemed like stuff I could cook myself. Prices were nuts, and staff were models with an attitude.
Basically, it's lack of attention to detail. They stopped delivering quality, and the price was too high. For restaurants with his name attached to it, he need to run a tighter ship with hiring the right people and focusing on quality of food, service, ambience.
Meanwhile Gordon Ramsay has like 50 restaurants worldwide, all award winning, highly rated, popular, and profitable.
scrubl0rd exactly. One is a proper chef, the other is a fraud
A Chef is someone that knows how to cook and run a professional kitchen, nothing more!
Who's a fraud?
The thing is Gordon has his business empire better set up, probably because of better executives and his own experience, which is greater and less naive then Jamie!
Kaos Warrior someone got triggered. You can’t fool consumers into buying your shit just because you are a household name.
@@chaoswarriorbr Jamie is a fraud though.
@@babyjiren9676 As a chef? Or as a food industry tycoon? The latter is obvious, but the first one I don't know, since I've never eaten a meal cooked by him and I'm certain the clusterfuck of a mess his restaurants became doesn't represent his capacity as a chef!
He's Obsessed With Himself... that's a very bad recipe
Uses to much olive oil. He recipes are not good
@@dyaneleblanc6447 he also uses chili jam in egg fry rice😭
he is obsessed with his ego,he might as well marry himself
@@travisagpasa4891 lol
Long before brexit Oliver's restaurants were pretty mediocre and overpriced. After the brand recognition of his name wears off, all you're left with is an okayish restaurant that's way too expensive.
The quality and consistency is bad. He seems to be more focus in the branding and business instead of the most important ingredient “FOOD”.
They lose control once they have so many restaurants. The quality just goes down the drain.
The real reason is younger/better chefs are opening restaurants.
Well I am glad he isn't losing his house. I wish the same could be said for all the people who worked for him. Did that sound harsh I'm sorry, maybe.
Losing
@@streetstruck8951 Thanks I should have looked that up. I'll fix it right up.
Not harsh at all, it's a sad reality.
“Let’s end on a positive note...” he’s not going anywhere. He has millions to his name. He just bought another house... positive note for him but not for the 600 people he laid off!
I went to a Jamies Italian once. It didn't know what it wanted it be, a standard Italian restaurant or more upmarket dining, so it mashed the two together, which resulted in expensive standard Italian food that was cheaper, and better elsewhere. I'd say the failure was more confusion in terms of its market than anything else. I would also add that many people don't eat out for Italian that much anymore, as it's the easiest food to make at home.
I just got a Gordon Ramsay ad for “uncharted” before this, what a coincidence 😂😂😂
Read your comment and it came out at the same time haha
RUclips algorithm ftw
Went there once with my Italian gf. Here were the problems:
1 - 100g of pasta on the plate
2 - Bland
3 - £25 per dish (keep in mind this is a starch dish not a steak)
4 - 25 minutes to offer us drinks...
When it arrived, I asked where the rest of it was in earnest. Tried it, told the waitress politely our experience was a restaurant that was understaffed offering food that was tasteless, overpriced and under-seasoned. Refused to pay, left and had steak for just £10 more pp. How you mess up pasta is beyond me. That's what happens when you try to have a million restaurants without a proper screening process. It's just your name stamped on to something.
Refused to pay? Dont go out to eat then.
A friend of mine went to one of his restaurants. She told me it was a rip off, and not he best. So in the end, it just couldn't compete with other restaurants that are better.
Ramsay whispering in Oliver's ear: " I can cook!"
He can also have a huge chip on his shoulder.
OUROPA nothing to do with his cooking it’s the business side , anyway Ramsey needs to keep his nose out and look after his own business
People go to restaurants so they don't have to eat pasta a third week in a row.
@@ianbuchan1793 almost all of Gordon's restaurants are very successfull.
"I can cook, Jamie"
Jamie's Italian was expensive and the quality was average... I guess it represented Jamie Oliver well....
you know what, I had a jamie oliver downstairs and there had been 3 levels of offices upstairs, they refused to sell takeaway meals off their menu. his restaurants aren't fine dining, so I didn't understand the logic.
imagine they had door to door service at that building, it will be STONK as hell
No. The real reason was because the food was terrible. I doubt he had the level of repeat customers that is necessary for success.
I think his story could fall into the "Get Woke, Go Broke" category.
Not as blatantly as Gilette, though. Or EA.
He faked his "wokeness" though, he became famous being a healthy food advocate, especially for children, and then caused scandals for himself when he turned around and served food even more appallingly unhealthy than what you could get at a McDonald's. He'd be doing better if he wasn't;t a phoney and didn't stretch out so thin for the sake of greed. Pathetic man, and he's made himself fat in the process, so everyone can see how fake he is.
One chef: one restaurant. Stars need to get over themselves and move on.
I spit my drink out when I heard just one of his several chains had forty locations.
I've tried some of his recipes- they're good. But it was a complete opposite experience dining in at one of his Fifteen restaurants. Besides being grossly overpriced, the food was just substandard. I remember the linguine ala vongole I ordered which I paid close to £20 for that turned up so dry; not to mention the skint portion that was served. The bread basket was abysmal. The bread was stale and not properly covered. It didn't taste that good either. I'm not surprised though, cos his bread recipes are not the best out there. I can say for certain I make better bread.
Jamie is a wonderful cook, but Gordon Ramsey is a great chef, trained in business, hotel, and everything needed to run restaurants... it needs more than a passionate cooking to run places like this...
Jamie is not a wonderful cook... he just an ok cook.
When i visited one of his resturants in Sydney , i knew it was going to close. The food was shit. Simple
A. Restaurant business is tough even under the best conditions. Overly quick expansion without personal oversight is a recipe for disaster.
B. He may be a good cook, but doesn't have the business acumen to make run a large company.
C. He is what the Brits would refer to as a "wanker".
Haha wanker
Bloody wanker
There is an obesity crisis in uk
Fooking wanker
@@marquez2390 Ah man, we Americans can't even have our obesity and chair-bound whale lords.
I know why his empire is collapsing. Uncle Roger called him out for using Chili jam on his egg fried rice. No recovering from that.
Every time I hear his name now I hear Uncle Roger calling him out.
We a Jamie Oliver brand mortar and pestle at home, purchased from the local Ross for $10. Don't know or care about the man much, but it's one of the best mortar and pestles I have used.
He was also charging a sugar tax before there even was a sugar tax. You cant make up a tax that doesnt exist and charge people it...
I ate at Jamie Oliver’s once. It was bloody awful.
40 closed and that's not all of them. Sounds like he had way too many. Sounds like a lousy businessman. That said, as entertaining as I man find him, I can't say I've really every been eager to try his food.
@Charles Chuck that's true, that can't help
Why is the voice-over delivered in that annoying machine-gun fashion? It gave me a headache. That -- plus the music.
It’s patronising. Talks down to people.
Because newscasters are supposed, trained, to speak in hyper disneychipmunkese ... tiresome, isn't it ... I mean isnnnit ... yawn. Maybe subtitles would come in handy lol. Or was she on helium? Terrible whatever.
plauditecives adjusting volume buttons used to be a thing
"Sell salad that taste like sad, that's why his restaurant failed" - Sun Tzu, Art of War
"I didn't say that" Sun Tzu, maybe
We ate at one of his establishments. Food was mediocre but expensive for what we got. My wife also got sick from spoiled seafood (calamari). Every one if his restaurants should be shut down.
Did u complain when u were at the restaurant ?
@@lauraveritysavage4542 yep. Manager took seafood off of the bill. We told him we expected a better dining experience, his reply was "you have other dining choices available".
I keep up and restaurants fail 90% of the time according to Government numbers. Been that way since the early 80's maybe longer, that's when I started.
Having spend most of my life in Restaurant business, what I found after three visits to Jamie's Restaurants is that the taste of the food and the size of the portions did not reflect the price he is charging. I think this is the main reason.
The Sugar tax is garbage. I only drink water myself but my granny drinks club orange all the time and it went from £1 a bottle to £2.50 most of the smaller shops won't even sell the full sugar version anymore because the price is so high.
The sugar tax is also a way to extort customers. The sugar tax for club orange is 48p for a 2L bottle but they've still increased the price by £1 or more, probably citing admin costs relating to it.
@@thomaswilcox5265 All these sin taxes need to end. I got charged 25p for a plastic bag the other day. It's all just went way too far.
@@matthewnevin9156 Love him or hate him, at least Boris wants to get rid of them.
His restaurants and businesses just needed a "Ramsay Inspection" or be featured in a episode of Kitchen Nightmares...
Right! Blame it on Brexit. He didn’t evolve with the market. His food is outdated. It kinda always was.
dont blame it on the sunshine, dont blame it on the good times, blame it on the brexit
Sick and tired of people blaming Brexit.. I'm sure it was to 20% increase in the price of Tomatoes from Italy that killed his Empire..
What I'm seeing from the below comments is many people went once, and never went back... it's ALL about repeat buisness and word of mouth.
I was enjoying watching ad's when this jamie oliver video kept interrupting
Jamie Oliver’s biggest mistake was that he’s not Gordon Ramsey 😂
Ramsay isn’t as sainted as people who like personalities think.
Most of the American restaurants he ‘saved’ lasted a year or less. It was never a long term fix.
@@adamquirke6024 at least he saves his restaurants so that's good enough
@Benjamin Schaetzle and your a nazi
@@Himmyjewett best reply ever
@@adamquirke6024 Ramsay can only help them by showing them how to run the business properly. Once Ramsay is done, it's basically up to the owners whether to follow his steps or completely ignore them and return to the old ways, not to mention some of them have quite severe financial issues which often lead to close down of the restaurants. So Ramsay is usually (if not never) not the reason why many of the restaurants he helped have to close down.
He got greedy. Should have kept his restaurant brand at a much smaller scale - make them profitable and grow slowly and cautiously. Employ a sharp accountant too who will be brutally honest about his financials.
Love Jamie. He should do his TV,Books and open about 12 restaurants around the world and visit them regularly.
Use the Gordon Ramsey model.
But Ramsey gets them up to the 2 star Michelin standard before he leaves it in capable hands. Oliver doesn't even have 1 Michelin star so it's hardly a surprise his restaurants are all shutting down.
I ate at Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant In Brighton UK 3 or 4 times back in 2010. The only good meal I had was the first. The second was poor I went back once or twice in hopes of a good meal like the first. It never happened. I gave up after that.
I went to the one near Leicester Square. Staff were lovely and very attentive.
However, out of 8 of us, four couldn't eat their meals because of the excessive salt.
It was too expensive for what is was too.
He partnered with a grocery chain in Canada, Sobeys for his dedicated line of pasta, sauce etc. Way overpriced and still used 'Soybean' oil, garbage overpriced ingredients.
It's so shit. I'd much rather buy Newman's Own, or even Ragu before that shit.
Hated the music, editing, and presentation of this video.
Its the same every mashed video..... lol....
@@darwishsalam3829 and they're all awful half-truth videos lol
The restaurant here in Johannesburg is still open and I love it
I have had bad service at his restaurants about 5 times now..i went again a few months ago and it was fantastic,service, food brilliant. Having said that I do think a lot of the problems are with him himself. People got just sick of him telling them what they should and should not be eating all the bloody time. Always on tv banging on about school dinners and sugar in drinks etc. Then expecting people to go and eat said food in his own restaurants...it pissed me off anyway.
andrew marsh I refused to eat at his restaurants based solely on his telling us what we should and shouldn’t eat. He can go fuck himself. I’m glad his restaurants are closing, and I’m glad his Jamie at home line is gone. He deserves it.
@@deeprose4 Dear, thats not a constructive criticism but more of a condemnation. You would want him to improve & care about your health not the opposite dont you?
His net worth is over 200 million pounds. I doubt he loses much sleep.
People with 200 million are trying to make another 100 million.
joshua raglin this is true.
That includes his chain restaurant not liquid asset so yes it will hurt his worth.
Actually its 400 million. Gordon net is 200 :)
Used to work as a food writer for a magazine, got invited to Jamie's Italian. When i delivered my article to the editor, he looked at me and said "we aren't featuring anything negative in our magazine. people prefer to know only about the good restaurants, so i'm not publishing this."
nuff' said.
His foods are way way too expensive. Who on earth would pay £25 for a salad when you can get a salad ingrediance in any high street store for £5 and make 4 to 6 portions at home for way less.
Greed pure greed.
Moaning at the minimum wage increase for his loyal workers whilst lording it up.
Personally the people, or victims of his endeavours will end up being his staff. I bet he’s made sure he will still keep loads of dosh.
I don’t want to add anything else not that I’ve run out of words but rather it would serve no purpose
i feel bad for his staff.. working there getting payed minimum wage.. u cant expect anything good to come from it.. might aswell work at mc d's, they pay u the same and u know they aint going to close up shit..
From the thumbnail it almost looked like you were going to accuse him of eating all the food.
Why did people get "angry over a little bit of sausage"? Because Chorizo is NOT an ingredient of Paella. He needs to do better research before 're-designing ' some other country's national dish. Not surprised his empire is collapsing,
Itsmeintorre Spain agree. he literally sabotaged Thai curry and mixed with ingredients that were not even from south east region, and called it Thai. That is quite insulting.
Love JO, learned so much with his videos, and i have a few of his books. However, i had the worst spaghetti and meatballs of my life at his restaurant. It was dry, cold, muddy like cement and the pasta come way over cooked.
BTW i can cook the same pasta using his recipe getting way better results. And every friends of mine that ate there told me the same story.
Call Gordon.
according to Uncle Roger, he cannot even make egg fried rice properly. 😁
used to love jamie , and couldnt stand ramsey , jamie used to be great easy cook dishes But he changed he started getting too big for his boots and TELLING us what we should eat and expecting kids to be happy eating his healthy salads etc etc , literally forcing schools to not feed kids certain foods.as for ramsey thought he was a rude obnoxious idiot but the guy is brill , can cook and way he goes in saves buisnesses omg . plus he very entertaining lol. loved oliver when he was a happy studenty kinda grass routes cook who sadly lost his way
There was a Jamie's Italian 10mins walk from me. I tried it twice. The food was below the standard of other local Italian restaurants and more expensive. People realised this and stopped going. It's really that simple.
Simple, truthful yet a underrated comment for most of business experts above. I read things like " he had too many restaurants" or " he should have targeted students and tourists". Gordon Ramsay's and other famous chefs got even more restaurants which were opened almost simultaneously. Students....Tourists....really? And why a tourist would pay to try Italian cuisine made by a British man in UK ? And if you wanted to eat Italian, why choose him when there're plenty of authentic Italian restaurants nearby? And why a student with a 60k loan to pay has to choose him over a nandos or even a kebab/ chicken shop ? Those to blame are all his lawyers and accountants, absolutely incompetent pricks.
Adding jam and water to your “egg fried rice” shows he’s just a celebrity chef, not a professional one.