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This guy needs to get out of the kitchen and see what is going on in the rest of the house.
"... you add all the Obama nonsense to what its become in the last several years. I dont have anything against Mr. Obama. Im just saying the way that, you know
the government should stay out of things. [...] Pretty soon, theyre going to wipe a lot of the middle restaurateurs and restaurant cooks. [...] If it continues, then watch: youre going to have high-end, and youre going to have fast food, and youre going to have chain restaurants.
The reason, Mr. Lagasse, restaurants like yours are failing is because most Americans pockets aren't deep enough to take one's family out to your restaurants. Place the blame in the right fry pan and give it a taste test before you splice and dice the President. And I agree with you, soon it will be only high-end eateries catering to the 3% , leaving the rest to the slop buckets . Sad to now think of going to a pizza buffet or a burger/fries joint as a luxury.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/25/famed-chef-emeril-lagasse-says-obama-may-drive-him-broke/
global1
(25,166 posts)It's just that attitude of taking advantage of people that will cause these restaurants to fail.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)3 meals for, what, less than $3-4? What we are willing to spend to have someone else do the kitchen work...absolutely absurd.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Polenta is peasant food. Ate it con coniglio many a winters day. Like bagna cauda easy peasant food that foodies try to make expensive.
Baitball Blogger
(46,570 posts)FarPoint
(12,207 posts)He now sleeps with the teabaggers.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)fuck you, emeril. yes, you and your fellow rip-off artists in the restaurant industry need to pay your workers a living wage, or close your doors.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)slave labor wages.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 27, 2014, 10:46 PM - Edit history (1)
who are racking in millions...fuck them both.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Don't ask what the mystery meat is.
packman
(16,296 posts)neat. Waiting for next season.
I wish Martin would finish that last book. Too many cliff hangers to resolve.
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)We ate at his Disney restaurant and it was terrible. There were three of us and each order although different tasted the same as the other.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Disney has much better. Emeril has a couple of restaurents in Orlando but they are not at Disney nor are they affiliated with Disney. Wolfgang Puck is the only celebrity chef with several sites and cafes at the Disney Resorts.
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Times Sq. restaurant, Guys American Kitchen & Bar. It's a keeper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?pagewanted=all
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GUY FIERI, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square? Have you pulled up one of the 500 seats at Guys American Kitchen & Bar and ordered a meal? Did you eat the food? Did it live up to your expectations?
Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as Guys Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche, did your mind touch the void for a minute?
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)"And when we hear the term Donkey Sauce, which part of the donkey are we supposed to think about?"
frazzled
(18,402 posts)What is the federal government into that he thinks they should be out of? How is whatever it is affecting middle restaurateurs?
Yes, the middle class is being squeezed everywhere. Yet where I live, mid - price restaurants, if they're any good, are always crowded. Put the cork back in the brandy decanter!
alp227
(31,959 posts)brooklynite
(93,834 posts)...but I think you're over-reaching when you argue that higher end restaurants are dying out because of the economy. I go out to eat a lot, so I notice both high, middle and low-brow establishments. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver...people arfe still drinking in bars and eating in restaurants at all levels.
progressoid
(49,824 posts)adieu
(1,009 posts)is his alone. If the general trend is growing and his restaurants aren't whose fault is that?
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)All that pork fat clogged up the blood flow to his brain.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)and other right leaning news sources.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Emeril, you complete dumbass. Name the Obama policies that are causing this phenomenon you observe.
MatthewStLouis
(904 posts)This is exactly what greedy upper management and corporate executives in healthcare do: blame the President and "the Economy" for not giving people cost of living raises, while they are actually making record profits.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)They do us a disservice by making unhealthy foods more appetizing.
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)The reason why a bunch of Middle level place go is because the chains can afford to chase them out of business by buying all the ads and decent real estate. It is also because the rich scum that own such chains, none of whom give a damned about food culture, keep bleeding the middle class to the point where they cannot afford a burger.
Also, let me see this quote and raise it
"And I agree with you, soon it will be only high-end eateries catering to the 3% , leaving the rest to the slop buckets "
One episode of any of the "real housewives" series shows where this is going. You will have people who had to have the inherent shallowness and coarseness of character (what used to be called "noveau riche" to make a million dollars, who will drag down the very institutions of culture they claim to uphold. Why the hell do you think we have 5 dollar cupcakes, or Bobby Flay passing off his chopped up version of Southwestern cuisine as high class? The simple answer, our moneyed class cannot and will not even pretend to uphold culture, and they need the culture to be "globalized" in order to maintain the mediocrity that gives them power.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)about the one that paid great wages.
And the one that paid great wages pulled in more than most of them combined.
The management knew you can't impress people when your staff is not committed 100%.
Staff that's well compensated will do their best for you. And will be able to patronize other restaurants.