/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>Piss away 1500 jobs
>Only saddened
What a nice guy

>>12358066
Checked

>>12358066
He should donate all his Money to these employees and live as a hobo I the streets for conning people.

>>12358056
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>>12358084
What did he do wrong?

>>12358110
Took the joy out of school dinners.

>>12358115
t. fattie

Jamie's Italian was a reliable low/mid-budget place. The one in my city always had a table available and it was great for a spur of the moment dinner. Much better value than some of the dogshit out there. But I mean, Jamie is rich as fuck as nobody is going to mourn chain restaurants.

>>12358131
Carluccio's is better
(and still in business)

>>12358110
BTFO'd fat women and grannies by not letting their kids eat literal pigshit at primary school (where there are no other alternative foods to eat) and even telling the parents that they shouldn't get offended because they had no way of knowing that the food they eat is not healthy as they are not educated in cooking but they got so mad they started throwing take away over school walls and passing it through school gates just to try and blast him the fuck out. He did stop my school serving that pizza though, so fuck him.

>>12358056
>Glad he's getting what he deserves, he is a hack.
True, he's deffo a hack but he won't be affected. His personal fortune is well protected:
>Jamie Oliver Holdings, which operates Jamie Oliver Limited and Jamie Oliver Licensing Limited, as well as the international restaurant franchise business, Jamie's Italian International Limited, will continue to trade as normal.

>>12358146
At least people will realise he isn't a good restaurant chef he is a tv meme chef who doesn't use his fortune to help people and also his healthy lunch programme got stopped because he stopped funding it once his show about it was over.

>>12358188
The only good thing he's done is give Gennaro Contaldo exposure.

>>12358056
>more chains going bust

Good, there isn't one decent chain place in the UK

>>12358056
Jamie Oliver—like the poor he so adores—seems always to be with us; to be with us and to have been with us always as well, although it’s only 14 years since he first thrust his meat and two veg at us in the television series The Naked Chef. Since then, not a year has passed without some new Oliver production: cookery books, more TV, many Sainsbury’s advertising campaigns, restaurants, delicatessens, food product ranges and latterly a number of campaigns aimed at improving the eating habits of the nation, specifically its children.

Not content simply to gnaw the mound of bread he’s accumulated by giving supermarket endorsements, Oliver has committed himself to spreading the wholesome word: his Fifteen chain of restaurants aims to give a break to young folk who’re broken, by delinquency, addiction and poverty, by inserting them into the food industry as sous-chefs and so vastly improving their life chances.

It’s this combination of shameless avariciousness and a belief in the drizzle-down of oily emolument from the top to the bottom that makes Oliver the personification of contemporary Britain. If Terence Conran plummily taught the middle classes how to be a proper European bourgeoisie in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Oliver is his worthy estuarine successor, taking the permanent foodie revolution on to that portion of the former working class who bought up the public housing stock. Now they can borrow against their equity to buy bruschetta, while the poor saps who didn’t get their plutocratic act together poke Turkey Twizzlers through the school gates to feed their morbidly obese cuckoo kids.

>>12358206
Needless to say, Oliver sticks in my craw and I’d walk a cunty mile to avoid him and all his works. What this society needs is a culture that values its eternal soul above its lemon sole and a form of social justice that doesn’t depend on the tit-beating self-righteousness of charity—with all the patronising bullshit that goes along with this. Still, I don’t expect Oliver to have a Damascene conversion on these matters, not while he’s doing such a lovely jubbly.

Between the liverish columns of the brutalist former bank building at the end of Shaftesbury Avenue in London, a new outpost of Oliver’s army has been established: Jamie Oliver’s Diner. Unlike his delis and his Italian (sic) restaurants, the “pop-up” diner does indeed have a surrealistic, thrown together feel, like the chance meeting between a hand-held card reader and a PR wonk on a conference-room table.

“I know,” some bright spark must’ve said, “let’s make it a themed western dinosaur burger joint!” And verily, it was so, complete with a triceratops meat chart on the wall and weird glyphs on the ceilings that show cowboys and dinosaurs peacefully cohabiting in the sagebrush. There are hortatory slogans painted along the architrave: “Gorgeous food cooked with love and care”; “No porkies, just free-range meat”; and—most heartening, this—“If it’s not eaten, it’s composted.”

>>12358210
My two velociraptors had standard seven-ounce burgers with various bits and pieces, Mrs Tyrannosaurus (who doesn’t usually attend these reviewing meals) went for a chicken burger and I had the Caesar salad. The food was nothing special: Mrs T said her burger tasted “bitter”; the bit of grilled chicken on my salad was just that—a bit about two by three inches and as wafer-thin as Mr Creosote’s mints. The boys were pissed off by the cardboard straws in their Cokes, which were weirdly absorptive. The fries, naturally, came in those dumb little zinc buckets. With “home-made” lemonade for me, a Bacardi and Coke for Mrs T and a tenner tip, the whole schmozzle cost 20 quid more than the weekly Jobseeker’s Allowance.

On the back of the paper menu, together with recipes for cocktails called Cucumber Number and Dark’n’Stormy, there’s a chirpy little missive from Jamie himself, wherein he witters on about “great food values and ethics” and “sustainable and local ingredients”, all of which leads inexorably to “yummy healthy dishes”.

There’s also a sidebar entitled “A word about nutrition”, in which the usual guff about calories and saturated fats takes on the air of a pious homily. Jamie says: “The beauty of being a pop-up is it gives us loads of flexibility to listen to what you guys want, so please let us know.” To which I can only respond: do please pukka off with your millions to Necker Island with Branson and leave us in peace, matey.

Reminder that Jamie Oliver has dyslexia and named his kids like this:
- Poppy Honey Rosie
- Daisy Boo Pamela
- Petal Blossom Rainbow
- Buddy Bear Maurice
- River Rocket Blue Dallas

>>12358135
unlike the man himself

>>12358056
>has appointed KPMG as administrators
It is ALWAYS KPMG who get appointed as administrators for high profile collapses like this. The fuck is that about?

>>12358206
Have sex

>>12358137
Are families in Europe too poor to afford to buy real food to make decent lunches for their kids to take to school or something?

>>12358221
Wouldn't be surprised if KPMG's shady surveillance and intervention half made it happen in the first place.

>>12358215
>its real
What's his fucking problem?

>>12358258
More like, people here and everywhere else are lazy fuckers that don't want to cook. I'm not even talking about cooking healthy food, just cooking.

Also, this fucker deserves to go bankrupt after putting chorizo in a paella

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>>12358213
tl;dr

>>12358056
This faggot, seriously.

>expecting that the britbongs, whose cuisine is arguably the poorest world wide, will appreciate fresh pasta and "higher welfare pork"

>expecting that the brits will trade their greasy beer battered shitty cod for Gennaro's "sustainable, pan-seared halibut with a splash of wine and roasted cherry tomatoes from Calabria OHH MY MYY"

>expecting that britfags will give a dime about "fresh, vibrant ingredients" while they feed on a diet of peas and haggis.

I am a student in the UK and of Cypriot origin. The attitude these people have towards what they consume is fucking repulsive.
Everything here, other than gourment places, is just rock bottom.

>>12358336
Lol. No wonder veganism booms in Britain.

>>12358215
>Buddy Bear
>River Rocket
Those are some top notch names.

>>12358336
The food aint that bad. And least UK girls look better than Cypriot girls

>>12358335
There’s nothing wrong with putting seafood in paella.

>>12358336
I bet you're a hoot at the student parties

>>12358452
I don't know, m8. Goblins vs. Orks.

Probably wasn't using enough olive oil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsTWFsEi0aE

>>12358502
>t. brit

British parties: abusing ethanol to get a momentary relief from your meaningless life, caused by the grey sky, workaholism, virtue signalling and individuality that plagues this excuse of a country. I know now why you have such a huge heroin problem.

>>12358452
Not a single british woman I know shaves her arms.
>muh double standards ARMPIT HAIR empowers me

In Cyprus all men lift and groom due to 2 years of conscription, and this affects the women too, who mostly lift, shave and care about their looks, unlike european women.
Even a half occupied country has a better society than yours.

kys bud

>>12358258

Based free and healthy school lunches in the socialist utopia of the Nordics.

Plus, I think the pigshit was in 'Murrica.

>>12358336
>Cypriot

So a Turkroach?

>>12358056
>Setting up a chain of overpriced Italian restaurants
>When Bongland has always been into paki cuisine
That was his first mistake

If we want Italian shit, we boil pasta at home
It's easier to make lasagna than curry

>>12358568
Kek

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>>12358568
>Samefagging like this

>>12358066
>create 0 jobs
>act like a petty shitter against someone who created 1500

>>12358565
>this entire post

Welp, I guess you don't get invited to them

>>12358462
Anon, chorizo ain't seafood.

Also, paella has a very specific recipe, if you change it, it's just rice.

>>12358604
Absolutely butthurt

>>12358056
Is it common that all the restaurants just suddenly close up like that? For example the amount of Quiznos has probably gone down because they've gotten less popular/there's more competition, but they still exist. Is it because they're franchises rather than all run by the corporation? Why wouldn't he just close a few of the restaurants and keep the ones that are doing alright or divert more resources to the ones that could possibly do alright?

>>12358970
>Why wouldn't he just close a few of the restaurants and keep the ones that are doing alright
Basically none of them were doing alright. That's why all but 3 closed and those ones one last long because the administrators won't find a buyer.

>>12358664
paella is just overcooked rizoto

>>12359012
This, they are terrible restaurants

At least it was limited and his awfully named children can still enjoy their massive inheritance.

>when you spend 30% of all profits on olive oil

>>12359403
4U

>be chef
>the recipes you came up with live or die on their ingredients being autistically fresh
>you open a chain of what's considered one of the most boring national cuisines
>you try to use your recipes (which need autistically fresh ingredients) in your chain
>they suck because lolsupplychains
What did he mean by this

>>12358304
KPMG is part of the corporate "business failure as business model" and bankruptcy/receivership as profit center style of doing business.

>>12359403
(you)

>>12358056
>when you spend all your profits on quality extra virgin olive oil

>>12358664
>Also, paella has a very specific recipe, if you change it, it's just rice.
muh unique rice recipe

>>12358056
>Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is "devastated" after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost.

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>>12360300
>muh rice
...and Yuropoors say Americans are fragile.

>>12358604
seethe roach