"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Time for me to play the "devil's advocate" here.
> Interesting how no one has mentioned this yet but let me be the first.
>
> I suspect that this show was one of the greatest reality tv TROLLS ever@
>
> Think about it... You have Gordon Ramsay and national television in your
> restaurant to prove that you are a great restaurant. Wouldn't you be on
> your
> best behavior for the show?
>
> But they were not. They did all the arrogant and bad things. Look at all
> the posts about the show. It's the most talked about ever. Negative
> attention is still attention.
>
> The network loved this. When they replay this show (probably right before
> they start the new season), the cost of advertising will probably
> skyrocket
> as many people that didn't see the episode will want to.
>
> The negative attention to the restaurant will probably work in their favor
> too. Negative attention is still better than no attention.
> Seriously....if
> they were in my town, I'd make reservations to go there just to see what
> it's like myself. I would@
>
> I suspect this show was a great marketing thing for the restaurant. They
> are not going to close down. They will probably prosper after this airing.
> Local and visiting people will go there just "to see for themselves" what
> it's like.
>
> G. :-D

I agree 100% re the T.V. show, and also 100% for the restaurant. The
restaurant was already getting bad reviews, so they had nothing to loose and
probably couldn't "un do" their bad reviews, given the nature of this
"reality" show. Might as well go for broke.