Do you ever wonder if Gordan has gone too far when the customers dont like the food they dont pay for it?
i mean the dishes there seem really expensive and posh so wont he lose money when even one customer dosnt pay??
can anyone answer my question?

its a tv show channel 4 will probably foot the bill also i dont think its his resteraunt its just used for the show

Its not his restaurant... the tv channel pays for the food anyway, the customer paying not paying is just a way to keep track of who does well in the kitchen... and gordon had to have made at least 5 million just for doing the last hells kitchen here in the states (it is horrible by the way)

So to say the man is going bankrupt is kinda silly...

i'm sure that the customers who do pay more than cover the losses incurred from those who don't. and lets face it, there's a huge mark-up on the food anyway e.g: £5 charged for a very simple chocolate mousse on last week's show. total cost of ingredients....about 50p per portion. going bankrupt....can i go bankrupt too please?

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i'm sure that the customers who do pay more than cover the losses incurred from those who don't. and lets face it, there's a huge mark-up on the food anyway e.g: £5 charged for a very simple chocolate mousse on last week's show. total cost of ingredients....about 50p per portion. going bankrupt....can i go bankrupt too please?

That's all restaurants isn't it ? That's why I don't eat in them. I like McDonalds - you get a whole meal for £2, £3 gets you a muffin as well. Don't have the McApple Pies or the McDoughnuts - urghhh !!!

i like the flurries personally!

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i like the flurries personally!

Never had one of those but the other day the one in Wolverhampton completely ran out of desserts, how can you run out of desserts in McDonalds ??? Easier to find as well, I know where all 5 of them are in Central Brum so I can go between them if they haven't got what I want - have to do that quite often.

Better than Burger King, they have a horrif reputation - there was a programme on ITV once where they tested EVERY Burger King & found that 40 of them admitted to spitting in the food. 5 Pizza Huts in London had rats in the kitchen, and I dunno what the Colonel's Secret Recipe is but it's disgusting.

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i like the flurries personally!

Never had one of those but the other day the one in Wolverhampton completely ran out of desserts, how can you run out of desserts in McDonalds ??? Easier to find as well, I know where all 5 of them are in Central Brum so I can go between them if they haven't got what I want - have to do that quite often.

Better than Burger King, they have a horrif reputation - there was a programme on ITV once where they tested EVERY Burger King & found that 40 of them admitted to spitting in the food. 5 Pizza Huts in London had rats in the kitchen, and I dunno what the Colonel's Secret Recipe is but it's disgusting.

I am from Wolves too, big up the wolves massive

I was a saturday girl in the (ahem) early '70's. I worked for a high profile company (Kensington based)who have department stores nationwide. I carried out duties as what was laughingly called a "Silver service waitress". The kitchens and other areas were filthy and the charges to customers extortionate. So things haven't really changed, we are just a little more aware, the practices are nothing new. I don't know what is worse the additives from staff practices or the chemical additives! I love McDonald's despite all I have heard even though I love fresh food and cooking, and the McFlurries, well I buy them and put them in my freezer, my little sins when I feel like a treat, sad really!

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Originally posted by NickiJ22:
i like the flurries personally!

Never had one of those but the other day the one in Wolverhampton completely ran out of desserts, how can you run out of desserts in McDonalds ??? Easier to find as well, I know where all 5 of them are in Central Brum so I can go between them if they haven't got what I want - have to do that quite often.

Better than Burger King, they have a horrif reputation - there was a programme on ITV once where they tested EVERY Burger King & found that 40 of them admitted to spitting in the food. 5 Pizza Huts in London had rats in the kitchen, and I dunno what the Colonel's Secret Recipe is but it's disgusting.

I am from Wolves too, big up the wolves massive

ooh it seems we have the midlands posse...! i work in the bull ring (within easy reach of all b'ham maccy d's) but live in lovely staffordshire.... used to go to pendeford quite a lot when i worked for b'ham midshires
i've noticed that the ones in b'ham never actually have what i want to order.... i thought it was just me being fussy!

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Originally posted by NickiJ22:
i like the flurries personally!

Never had one of those but the other day the one in Wolverhampton completely ran out of desserts, how can you run out of desserts in McDonalds ??? Easier to find as well, I know where all 5 of them are in Central Brum so I can go between them if they haven't got what I want - have to do that quite often.

Better than Burger King, they have a horrif reputation - there was a programme on ITV once where they tested EVERY Burger King & found that 40 of them admitted to spitting in the food. 5 Pizza Huts in London had rats in the kitchen, and I dunno what the Colonel's Secret Recipe is but it's disgusting.

Going slightly off topic...I used to be a waiter / restaurant manager and in every place I've every worked the waiting staff used to mess with difficult customers food.

i've experienced similar sort of goings on in places i've worked in. (i shan't call them 'restaurants'.) customers who didn't tip but then returned to eat again would usually have additions to their meal which weren't strictly on the menu.

Good evening, I don't eat in restaurants generally anyway as the mark-up is too high. I have found as well that having a milkshake with the Happy Meal fills me up & by the time I get to the cheeseburger I am struggling.

The only problems I have with MDs is that late at night they "cook to order" so you have to wait forever. 15 mins for 3 fishfingers when you're starving to death is not funny !!!

I lived in Pendeford, on Dovecotes. Makes Iraq look like Trumpton !!! I don't like The Bull Ring - dunno what it is but I just don't feel comfortable in there, Pallasades is nice & Pavilions but The Bull Ring makes me feel ill.

I hate waiting for them to cook the stuff, I just want it to grab & go. Staffordshire is nice, gotta venture into Shropshire & I love Hampshire. You can't get a proper muffin at 7am on a Sunday morning either & WHY do they think people don't want a dinner till 10.30am ?

If they open at 6 then they should stop serving breakfast at 9, not 10.30. I get home around 9.30 & have to wait an hour. The breakfast looks disgusting. Burger King is nasty, their food is horrible - only had 2 in the last 4 years & that was because I couldn't find a MDs.

I always found MD's really expensive, admittedly it's 11 years since I last ventured in. I just remember very small burgers with a carton of chipsticks. They must obviously improved. What I love is a good old "fish and chip " shop ,strange how even those , as well as most small local shops now seem to be owned by "ethnic minoritory persons ," What has happened to the good old british trader, I suppose I can answer my own question, a lot of them are alive and well and working in Spain.

I agree we don't have many good british take-aways anymore, however I live right opposite a good old fashioned fish shop (the smell sometimes does drive me mad!!) It had originally been a corner plot semi-detached house converted many many years ago, (it was a fish shop when I moved here over 24 years ago)The service is great, the fish and chips wonderful and with scraps and salt and vinegar put on for you I only have to trot across the road and get out the tea, bread and butter for a truly british treat.

PS. It is owned by a british couple who during school/college hols have their daughters helping out so it is truly a family concern

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PS. It is owned by a british couple who during school/college hols have their daughters helping out so it is truly a family concern

ahaaaaa! perhaps that's the REAL reason you like the place.....only joking! i have a soft spot for decent fish and chips, but they're hard to come by. i hate it when the chips have so obviously been re-fried from earlier during the day. minging. how do they get away with it?

Our chippie never needs to, they go "like hot cakes" never any left at the end of service. I agree that it is a minging practice.

How can anybody call MacDonalds food.......by comparison......??????
Just cooked Gordons Duck with the red wine and gooseberry jus........absolute piece of cake and scored many brownie points with the wife who loves duck.......and in reality not that more expensive.

Here in the United States in Ohio, MacDonalds is only one of the fast food restaurants. And you really can't call it food, no comparison.

Flurries are sold at Dairy Queen, which is frozen custard and/or ice cream, .

MD can't compare with any real restaurant and Gordons main dishes are so mouth watering, I wish they could jump out of the T.V.set so I could eat them.