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?
Frequently the restaurants are staffed by family members who are far past giving a shit because of the abuse they receive. And you're right that the incompetent employees are almost always people who stopped giving a fuck or are being trampled on. The Burger Kitchen episode is really emblematic. The chef is able to make a burger Gordon is in love with, and then later in the episode he threatens the owner physically and is fired/quits, and it turns out that the owners owed him money because he'd been doing groceries for the business with his own money and was forced to cook unseasoned slop burgers.
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