Every episode
Hello Gordon, we're the petite bourgeois restaurant owners. We're deluded and running our company into the ground by our denial and constant alienation of our employees.
Hi Gordon, we're the employees. Here's an annotated list of all the things wrong with the restaurant and how to fix it.
Gordon: "Ok owners, get out of the way of your employees."
Owners: "No. You're stupid and we, the small business owner, are right."
Gordon implements fixes that the employees have been clamoring for.
The restaurant immediately succeeds.
Owners: "Well dang, I guess Gordon had a point. What employees?"
The restaurant then either succeeds or fails due to market conditions, or the owners immediately revert back to their old ways and the restaurant instantly nosedives again
Every episode is the same story. Gordon asks the employees what's wrong with the business and they always go "The owner is a fucking moron and is running it into the ground and getting in the way of everyone doing actual good work." and then Gordon forces through the changes that the employees say need doing.
Why do the employees, the larger class, not simply devour the business owners?
As a guy who works in a brewery, I wish someone would make a kitchen nightmares for breweries.
“Oh my gawd! Your cellar has awful drainage and the fermenters are spaced way too close together, look at all this mold! No wonder you get so many viral hits!”
“Well look man rent is killing me and I gotta pack as many FVs into this space as I can.”
“Why are you making so many fruited sours? Do you know how expensive barrels of purée are? Also your diaphragm pump is from the 80s, so you’re losing like half a barrel of purée every batch!”
“That pump was a steal”
Cut to brewery employee: “yeah our sours are dog shit but the owner says that’s ‘what’s hot’. Idk man we could make like a decent American IPA and just market it well and make bank. Aw fuck the Lauter tun rakes broke again!”
Yeah what is with all the sours these days? I like a good dry cider now and then, but every beer sour I’ve ever had was just awful.