Every episode

Hello Gordon, we're the petite bourgeois restaurant owners. We're deluded and running our company into the ground by our denial and constant alienation of our employees.

Hi Gordon, we're the employees. Here's an annotated list of all the things wrong with the restaurant and how to fix it.

Gordon: "Ok owners, get out of the way of your employees."

Owners: "No. You're stupid and we, the small business owner, are right."

Gordon implements fixes that the employees have been clamoring for.

The restaurant immediately succeeds.

Owners: "Well dang, I guess Gordon had a point. What employees?"

The restaurant then either succeeds or fails due to market conditions, or the owners immediately revert back to their old ways and the restaurant instantly nosedives again

Every episode is the same story. Gordon asks the employees what's wrong with the business and they always go "The owner is a fucking moron and is running it into the ground and getting in the way of everyone doing actual good work." and then Gordon forces through the changes that the employees say need doing.

Why do the employees, the larger class, not simply devour the business owners?

  • regularassbitch [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    OWNER: hi, my name is Jonathan Blumpo and I'm the owner of Grease Pit BBQ. for some reason the city is close to shutting us down

    cut to a charcoal grill in a completely enclosed kitchen

    EMPLOYEE: we keep telling John to take the grill out and invest in a smoker and some general ventilation in the kitchen area but he keeps screaming at us and throwing wood chips at our eyes

    GORDON: so this restaurant has no windows, no vents, and you're cooking with charcoal indoors?

    OWNER: yes, but- but Gordon, my father started this business 5 years ago as a way to get me out of his house, I literally cannot afford to ventilate this place and pay my rent

    cut to owner dumping a golden wheelbarrow of cash tips into the back of a Ferrari

    • riley
      ·
      1 year ago

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      • regularassbitch [she/her]
        ·
        3 years ago

        EMPLOYEE: Joyce has been trapped under the floorboards since John told her to feed the rats down there 6 months ago. none of us get paid to take care of her

        GORDON: what the fuck? she's still down there? can I speak to her alone for a second?

        JOYCE, MUFFLED: it's an honor to meet you, chef

    • iwasloggedout [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I swear every episode has a scene of Gordon retching because the fridge is full of rotting meat. I know this because the editors like to ham it up and play the same retch noise four or five times to really hammer the drama.

      And of course the fridge is full of rotting meat because the owners buy way more supplies than their 3 customers / day turnaround can use, and they refuse to throw it out despite the chefs going "Hey uh if it weren't 2009 and I need this job I'd call the health inspector on your ass"