I Know Those Restaurant Rescue Shows are Fake but..

[TexasTowelie]

1. You can get the scoop on Restaurant Impossible at

http://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/ . It has info on how many of the restaurants closed or sold and comments made by the guests after the restaurants are renovated. Considering that most of the restaurants were on the brink of closing, Robert Irvine has done reasonably well compared to Gordon Ramsey.

That site also has info on Anne Burrell's "Chef Wanted" series. It turns out that most of the chefs that won that competition never took the job that they were competing for during the show. That's the problem when the prize is something that Food Network doesn't control.

BTW, the Korean-American woman that won Robert Irvine's "Restaurant Express" that was on TV earlier this year has already left her job.