On almost every page of this very interesting thread it is argued whether the restaurant "tried" to be as bad as it showed on TV.
I have had personal experience with one "reality" show (Extrememe Makeover: Home Edition), and a friend of mine appeared on the "American Inventor" show (though I have never seen this show).
My assessment is that these shows are just
based in reality. So much is done with editing that the truth is hard to discern.
Suffice it to say, I have no respect for the shows.
Back to KN: First of all, on the day Chef Gordon arrived, he ordered a meal and everything about it sucked.
Ask yourself this: if you had a Celebrity coming to your restaurant (let alone to judge you), and you knew weeks in advance he was coming, wouldn't you prepare in advance?
These people even knew he would be dining with them on a specific day, specific time, yet still failed to serve delicious food in a timely manner?
I just don't believe that. Not for a minute. Even if you've hired a restaurant consultant, you would do your best to look good (not perfect of course), but you wouldn't want to come off looking like an idiot like Terry did--for fear the consultant would call you "hopeless" and quit.
Or in my case, I don't want to show up on TV looking like an incompetent idiot (feel sorry for Pinto, because he couldn't possibly be as bad as they made him look).
Anyway, I take "reality" with a shaker of salt.
Tom