Gordon Ramsay reveals staff ban in place at restaurants – and customers love it
YES CHEF Gordon Ramsay reveals staff ban in place at restaurants – and customers love it
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GORDON Ramsay has revealed he bans staff at his restaurants from asking customers how their food is.
The celebrity chef said diners find being interrupted while eating to be questioned annoying.
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The Scots chef revealed he bans his staff from asking customers how their food is
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He insists they don't need to be asked about the quality of their meals because the food shouldn't have been served if there is anything wrong with it.
The 58-year-old Scot owns more than 50 restaurants around the globe, including his three-Michelin-star Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London.
He said he also insists that his staff have good personal hygiene because he doesn't want them to put customers off their food.
He said: "There is nothing worse than a sweaty fat f**k that comes out of the kitchen and goes to the table and he's got dehydrated skin, a beard that isn't trimmed, he's sweating from the armpits and his fingernails are black. Then he asks you 'How's your lunch?'.
"I mean that's the worst question. First of all you should never have sent that food if it wasn't good anyway so don't ask that question and secondly it's a bad advert for the restaurant.
"It's just common sense. I hate laziness, I hate slobs, I'm not good at that.
"Laziness is the worst thing anyone can bring into any workplace.
"When chefs start cutting corners in our business you're screwed, it's the beginning of the end."
Speaking on the Smartless podcast, Ramsay also told how he likes to change the staff at his restaurants every three or four years.
He said: "It's important to change the staff so they don't get complacent and lazy.
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"I've been a great motivator of planning succession as well. This industry is an absolute bitch and it's notorious for the burnout so when I start to spot that in the team it's important to take a bit of a sabbatical and move them on."
We told previously how Scotland best food spot has been crowned at a prestigious industry bash.
Lyla in Edinburgh - helmed by a Gordon Ramsay-trained chef - was handed the plaudit from the National Restaurant Awards.
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