**** this! What the **** is going on here! Christ I've never seen anything like it!

[Pondlife]

He could do with a visit by that celebrity chef guy who helps failing restaurateurs by giving them free advertising on TV.

Winner.

[TimberWolf]

He could do with a visit by that celebrity chef guy who helps failing restaurateurs by giving them free advertising on TV.

[Zippy]

Eh? Single White Male Boyfriend Other???

She Who Must Be Obeyed I think

[darmstadt]

SWMBO

Eh? Single White Male Boyfriend Other???

[Zippy]

Salad tosser!

[Menelaus]

IIRC he tried to open a restaurant in Glasgow and it went bust within a year. Perhaps he should concentrate on his amusing TV shows

He did - it was at the Hilton Grosvenor on Great Western Road and I eat at it. Wish I hadn't done; cost me a fortune for something tiny; so tiny in fact that on the way home we wandered into the University Cafe in Byres Road and had a pie and chips much to the at-that-time-SWMBO horror

[Bagpuss]

IIRC he tried to open a restaurant in Glasgow and it went bust within a year. Perhaps he should concentrate on his amusing TV shows

[Menelaus]

1% profit on turnover?

Restaurants are a mugs game.

Must be a hell of a lot of debt as the gross profits in FMCG are astronomical.

[BlasterBates]

yes I might pop round to give him some advice.

I mean for f*** sake what the f*** as he being doing in those f**** restaurants. If he carries on like that there'll be no f****ing customers coming.

[RichardCranium]

He was whining about this on the radio a few weeks ago.

He expanded too fast, people stopped going out to eat, he had a cash flow crisis, he asked the bank for more money SO THAT HE DID NOT HAVE TO SPEND HIS OWN MONEY, they laughed at him, he went on the radio complaining about how the banks are horrid people.

He came across as a spoiled child who has been told he cannot have yet another advance on his pocket money to buy more sweets.

I recall my wife yelling at the radio, "Welcome to the real world, you git!"

He is loaded personally, he expects the bank to take all the risks for him and they have refused. Funny that, innit?

[Moscow Mule]

show that his turnover was down 14 per cent from £41.59 million to £35.57 million while profits slid from £3.05 million to £383,325.

1% profit on turnover?

Restaurants are a mugs game.

[Clippy]

As well as the slump in profits, Gordon Ramsay Holdings, his restaurant company, had to deal with an unpaid backlog of VAT, corporation tax and PAYE, which totalled almost £8 million, a sum only being repaid this month.

Wonder what their excuse for the delay was?

[Pondlife]

Isn't his father in law head of the investment company that stumped up most of the cash for his empire.

Could be a bit of a frosty atmosphere over xmas dinner

So Gordon, it seems not only have you been shagging hookers behind my daughters back, you're halfway to bankrupting us as well you obnoxious little tool.

[Menelaus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...ts-tumble.html

I blame Gordon.

Ramsay? Yes.

The man's an insufferable ****. So he had to put £5m of his own money into it? Ah, the diddums. ****.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...ts-tumble.html

I blame Gordon.