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On 2013-05-18 14:21:38 +0000, Gary said:
> 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. I'm not sure what advocacy you're claiming: Their bad attitude is "acting" in an attempt to drive up a successful TV show's ratings and their own restaurant's traffic? That would certainly be an interesting approach. > 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. Sure. Reality TV has long since proven that idiots and nincompoops sell. > 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@ We had a restaurant nearby that got "Ramsey'd" and decided after the fact that they liked it better before he came, so their idiocy has continued. The wife and I think it would be interesting to see how goofy it is, but in the end, being brought a bucket of poorly prepared food at market prices just didn't seem compelling enough. We've balked three times and have concluded we don't like bad even if it's "weird". > 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. The "no one that's mentioned this" has mentioned this about 10 times already in this thread. But it's certainly a screwy idea that people might like to go to lousy places because bad food in hostile environments is "funny". I have my doubts that this will keep them open for too much longer. |
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