The Real Reason Jamie Oliver's Restaurant Empire Is Collapsing
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Jamie Oliver is one of Britain’s most recognizable and successful celebrity chefs and authors. He first rose to fame thanks to his television show The Naked Chef, which was one of the BBC’s most popular in the late '90s and early 2000s.
Oliver has since built a food empire that includes best-selling books and the restaurant chain Jamie's Italian, which had 42 restaurants in the UK at the height of its popularity. However, his restaurant empire has hit a pretty big bump in the road recently. Let's take a look at the real reason why Jamie Oliver’s restaurant empire is collapsing.
#JamieOliver #Restaurant #Food
Long struggle | 0:00
Non-disclosure agreements | 1:01
Brexit to blame | 1:48
Disconnect with fans | 2:27
Major debt | 3:05
Too much too fast | 3:59
Massively polarizing | 4:39
Perfect storm | 5:42
Not good at business? | 6:36
Skyrocketing costs | 7:27
What now? | 8:09
Don't feel too bad | 8:52
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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!!
"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
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
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.
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.
He broke the golden rule: Don't be BIG - Just be GREAT at what you do
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?
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
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
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.
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?
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?
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 👏
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.
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.
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!..
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....
He opened too many places too soon,when Gordon said he actually needed 5 years in his chelsea restaurant to open his second restaurant
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 ...
It's extremely difficult managing just one restaurant, very different from owning a franchise like KFC, Burger King or McDonald's. Most people will open one and take the time to develop it steadily, and this can take years of consistency. Most people don't have the patience for that because you don't exactly get extremely rich from owning just one restaurant, the Lamborghinis and mansions will have to wait.
I would say this is a good thing for Jamie as it will humble him and bring his head back to basics. I don't personally take any joy in seeing people fail, but an ego is always inexcusable. Hopefully he recovers and gets back to doing what he does with patience and sense.
Exactly owning a business will need years so that people get familiar with plus u need these years of consistent service and problems and how to solve them
KFC, McDonald's and Burger King are franchises. 100% of the risk is on the franchizee. Basically the place simply uses the brand's name and food. But how it's run and it's standards are the franchise. They do have to meet a certain standard but that's hard to fail.
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.
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.
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!
@@MegaSackman f
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*
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.
Saw the menu at his Melbourne restaurant, seemed like stuff I could cook myself. Prices were nuts, and staff were models with an attitude.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Adding jam and water to your “egg fried rice” shows he’s just a celebrity chef, not a professional one.
Not enough pretentious customers over paying for food to keep a pretentious cooks overpriced lifestyle alive.
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.
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.
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!
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?
The real reason is younger/better chefs are opening restaurants.
Excellent report, appreciate your research.
He opened average at best italian resturants in italy.
Enough said.
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.
"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
It doesn't matter how many times you fall down and fail what matters is if you get up and try again. He's a very motivated person and I wish him the best go ahead get up and try whatever you want! Love you Jamie and your family
Im almost positive Gordon Ramsay is having a laugh
yea
To be fair Ramsey went through this a few years ago and struggled with his restaurants
@@jonhandle Yes I do know that and im sure if Kitchen Nightmares was on Gordon would be more than happy to do a special
Even when I don’t like someone I don’t laugh at them when they’re down.
Ramsay*
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.
Jamie Oliver's 'Ministry of Food' was my first cookbook. Jamie, more than any other person, taught the millennial generation how to cook. I still use it regularly, for quick tips and ideas. You know who else makes good cookbooks, the Hairy Bikers! They have a number of really excellent cookbooks available.
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.
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.
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.
One chef: one restaurant. Stars need to get over themselves and move on.
“How could such a popular restaurant empire fall so fast?”
2020: You said something?
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.
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.
At least he engaged in businesses that saw many employed during the good years. He can simply don't stressed out by doing business and saw 40 percent of his wealth gone. I just see that 40 percent as Charity. Well done Jamie.
I ate at Jamie Oliver’s once. It was bloody awful.
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
UA-cam algorithm ftw
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.
From the thumbnail it almost looked like you were going to accuse him of eating all the food.
I own a Jamie Oliver set of pots and pans that I got through "Fly buys", (a shopping points reward system). I needed some new pots and thought.., why not, if they are rubbish then I have only lost some points...., well I have to say that they are without a doubt some of the BEST non stick pots and pans I have EVER used and I have been cooking for over 50 years. I can and do highly recommend his brand of cookware, even after a whole year of cooking they still look like they just came out of the box.
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 ...
“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!
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.
In the early days Mr. Oliver used to address all his comments to the person standing beside the camera, rather than into the camera lens, which indicates a unique level of thickness, even by chef standards.
Second, I truly believe that fast food chains have plenty to teach these "chefs". Look at the vast number of 20 year chefs with rotten food in the coolrooms, raw meat dripping into cooked food, mould, filth beyond belief, etc. Very rare in a ff chain. Chefs may look down on mass produced fast food, but it's like comparing a Toyota to a BMW. See which car runs flawlessly after 20 years - and which car needs endless repairs.
Fast food chains can teach these fools plenty. Cheerio!
I spit my drink out when I heard just one of his several chains had forty locations.
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"
Why have 40 or 50 restaurants just have a few, I admire Jamie Oliver for the work he does for struggling young people.
I went a few times in perth WA , the problem for me was this .. A its an hour train ride away and B if im going to spend nearly 200$ for 2 people id like there to atleast be beer on tap xD . I loved the food though
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.
Jamie's Italian was expensive and the quality was average... I guess it represented Jamie Oliver well....
I always enjoyed the Islington Fifteen’s tasting menu. It was good value for a special night out. I knew the staff were in training and maybe my bar was lowered. Jamie’s Italian always struck me as pricey and below par. Prezzo had nicer food at lower prices. Barbecoa was ok but very pricey - okay, that is, if you love average tasting slabs of meat. I was very sad to see Fifteen close because it was a valuable social enterprise, too. I would always have supported Fifteen just for teaching vulnerable youth to be employable in the restaurant industry.
I started work in an office where a Jamie Oliver restaurant was downstairs in the building. On my first day I got lunch on my own cause I didn't know anybody and had a simple tomato and basil pasta with a bottle of water and the bill was €20. A week into working there I realised that absolutely nobody out of the 150 odd office staff went there. Not because they couldn't afford it but they all felt it was a total rip off for what was very average food. Cafe three shops over wiped the floor with them at lunch. 7.50 for a whopper sandwich or salad and a drink.
When i visited one of his resturants in Sydney , i knew it was going to close. The food was shit. Simple
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.
The restaurant here in Johannesburg is still open and I love it
His restaurants and businesses just needed a "Ramsay Inspection" or be featured in a episode of Kitchen Nightmares...
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.
An extremely tallented caring person trying to make a success. Some things work, some dont. Lessons learned move forward with new knowledge he didnt have before.
Nah he's ignorant
If he was caring he would've known better than to use very insulting and non asian dishes on an asian dish
The title should say random guesses of why Jamie's restaurants failed...
He said he would leave the UK if we voted Brexit but the narcisstic p----- is still here
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
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...
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.
Big difference between being good at cooking and running a complex business like a chain of restaurants , especially a highly debt ladened one. Cash flows do help so no 16m shortfall surprises, thats very bad management not challenging conditions.
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.
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 last standing restaurant in Singapore also closed ! This is what happens when you offer sub par quality food and charge customers fine dining prices. Was quite surprise that they remain open so long...
Gordon should given a chance to Jamie Oliver’s restaurants to get featured in Kitchen Nightmares
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.
dont blame it on the sunshine, dont blame it on the good times, blame it on the brexit
Well i really like Jamie Oliver and his ccok books and food shows...yes he possibly should slow down how quickly he opens up the restaurants....just a few not a few dozen would be best..but love his food...love just how much he loves foods and love how he is trying his best to remove unnecessarily sugar in kids foods...love his passion...
Reason #0: Reliable, good culinary information is easier to get than ever before. And the more you learn about culinary technique, flavor-building, etc, the more his limitations become clear.
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.