[BBC]Rogue Restaurants

[tunafish]

Anyone watch Rogue Restaurants on BBC 1 today?

Ewww is all i can say!!! I USED to go to that harvester in bromley!!! NEVER again!!

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Rouge Restaurants? I would blush if I went into one of them :)

Yer I watched it, disgusting :(

[SinghKing]

Guess I'll watch it now on iPlayer and see how it it :)

EDIT: Just watched it and the word 'nasty' is an understatement.

I think I'm put off for a while, just imagine how many other restaurants might be like this :(

Edited July 31, 2008 by SinghKing

[Corris Veteran]

Watched it, can't say I have been into any of the places on there, or any of their chains.

At least I hope not.

Pretty bad standards, and was pretty disgusting really.

[acnpt]

Damnn, I didn't watch as i didn't want to get put off.

Just came to this thread to see if any chains got mentioned.

I liked harvesters too!!! Don't think it'll stop me from going.

Reminds of when I went on a school trip, the night before they showed a similar program about burger king, and those who had watched it, didn't eat at the burger king when we stop at services :rolleyes:

Anyone care to add what they found??

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

:x disgusting stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cv2nt/ if you missed it.

[Adrian]

Anyone watch Rogue Restaurants on BBC 1 today?

Ewww is all i can say!!! I USED to go to that harvester in bromley!!! NEVER again!!

I have been there a couple times in my day too, never again :x

[primexx]

not in UK can't see it. :(

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Yeah I saw that!

I used to work in a restaurant (steak house, not a chain). I felt that our kitchen was lax, in so much as we were silly, had fun, and so on. But if anyone saw anything like that - then we'd be in deep doodoo. I couldn't believe some of it.

HOWEVER... I think BBC shoot themselves in the foot with this sort of show. It's "factual" but to put it at such a slot, they try to make it light-hearted. As such, the presenter was making cheap jokes at that one owner's expense. I felt sorry for the guy - it seems he legitimately let the face company into his kitchens because he was aware that they needed to be sorted, and then when they returned, he was in the process of sorting them. He seemed genuinely stitched up.

Sure, as the owner/landlord - he should have known the extent of the problems, and they shouldn't have existed in the first place. But he was trying.

And the "Here, have a dishcloth"? Whatever!

I know that whatever is shown is what was filmed (well I trust the BBC). But a lot can be done in editing - attitudes can be completely misrepresented.

[Sethos]

Let Ramsay stop by instead and sort the place out :p

[leesmithg]

Anyone watch Rogue Restaurants on BBC 1 today?

Ewww is all i can say!!! I USED to go to that harvester in bromley!!! NEVER again!!

Why were all the restaurants not closed down.

The environmental health officers that inspected those premises should lose their licence.

I don't trust others with my food thats why I always make my own.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Envirnmental Health are a bunch of idiots - seriously.

As I have said, our restaurant was really clean, always respectful to the food. And yet we'd get pulled up because their officer wasn't aware that a well treated wooden bown was far cleaner than a plastic or metal one.

And yet, you see kebab shops treating food like crap. They get a warning and they clean up for 5 minutes. Then it's back to their old ways.

Basically though, environmental health only exist in this context because the industry exists - they rarely close anywhere - that is not their job. Their job is to help businesses function well. They back down so easily.

If a bad restaurant has a list of 15 problems - if upon return the inspector sees 5 are fixed - that is considered "an improvement". Ignore that there are still 10 existing issues they have ignored, ignore that 3 more have arisen - the restaurant gets a pat on the back, well done, and the others are briefly mentioned.

Lame!

[macf13nd]

well I just watched the first fifteen minutes of that. Interesting (in a bad way), but how poorly presented. Comically childish narration, staged reactions from the presenters, appallingly scripted.

It felt like something you get shown in a science class because it's the last day of term.

[Abhishek kapoor]

not in UK can't see it. :(

+1 should be posted/ uploaded somewhere else

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

That would be piracy

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

:x disgusting stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cv2nt/ if you missed it.

Thanks, I was just about to ask for a link!

Will watch this later :)

[Sethos]

Wish I could get that iPlayer working here :ninja:

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Wish I could get that iPlayer working here :ninja:

I think a simple proxy setup in firefox would work?

Dunno though.

Watching it just now on iPlayer.

[Sethos]

I tried, but they really closed out a ton of British Proxy IPs.

[leesmithg]

Envirnmental Health are a bunch of idiots - seriously.

As I have said, our restaurant was really clean, always respectful to the food. And yet we'd get pulled up because their officer wasn't aware that a well treated wooden bown was far cleaner than a plastic or metal one.

And yet, you see kebab shops treating food like crap. They get a warning and they clean up for 5 minutes. Then it's back to their old ways.

Basically though, environmental health only exist in this context because the industry exists - they rarely close anywhere - that is not their job. Their job is to help businesses function well. They back down so easily.

If a bad restaurant has a list of 15 problems - if upon return the inspector sees 5 are fixed - that is considered "an improvement". Ignore that there are still 10 existing issues they have ignored, ignore that 3 more have arisen - the restaurant gets a pat on the back, well done, and the others are briefly mentioned.

Lame!

Well I hope I am not classed as an idiot.

I have given up on my current career, I am going to University for a second time, hopefully Kings College London, in October 2009 to study and be trained as an

environmental health officer, not in cafe's, restaurants, kitchens, take-away's but more outside.

I will make note of all I watched on TV, (life of grime, the NZ version) and what I have come across in my lifetime and change things.

I hope to be a chartered environmental health officer, which means I will have sharper teeth to go with my big annoying mouth.

I am already on a promise to a lady in West Malling to sort the traffic out, so hopefully, if you know any moody food outlets in my area then let me know.