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Evan Gordon Ramsey comes well, and by the way, lots of flashes. Ready for that party. It's a party. It is a party but she was all like quiet and shy now. She's like I've done this once before writing. I'm excited to come here and talk about Ramsay. Heck. Yeah, you are last episode. I was saying that it was season 2, that's because we started the after-show on season two. My brain was like this is easy. Its season 3. We're on season 3 episode 2 I can season that matters because this is the second one. We're doing exactly the first one we we didn't do the after so Circle it's whatever you're forgiven. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing that so we're going to be breaking down basically the transport transformation of blend on Main and manat monastic one. Banana Manasquan Manasquan back to Jersey Jersey, which I love Jersey so much. So next time I'm going to have to go there before we dive into that. I have to introduce my wonderful panel to my right left. We have Saba. Whoo. Hi Mike. I'm here again. Xia. What is up? Everybody watching us. Thank you so much for tuning in and I will pass it on to you know him you love him. He's probably not camera ready because we don't ever worn it but it's producer Jonathan. What's up? Hey producer John 11 years. He adds a lot of authenticity to our show. We talk about the total area. Exactly why he's on it. So if you have any questions, give me a shout and I've been a server for good Lord. I'm not even gonna tell you how long so I'm gonna bring that to this is fun. There we go. This was a bit of an interesting one. So they didn't Focus so much on the like makeover of the restaurant. They didn't go into the kitchen too much they did they did a makeover on the dining room. But this seemed to be more of a makeover really on the chefs are Chef / owner his attitude. Yep. He could not keep it together. So we first go in there. Basically Ramsey comes in as we have to talk about the disguise before we jump into Oh my God, it was really that I really really liked Chef James Chef James because I was Chef James to at the beginning of the episode and then at the end when he judged a little halibut cook-off Chef James Avery is very accomplished Chef by himself. He was gored. He was actually a Consulting chef on Hell's Kitchen to start out and then left he I think he has a couple of his own restaurants came back to Hell's Kitchen as one of the sous-chefs on are very talented. And Chef in his own right? But the idea behind this disguise was we're going to dress him up to look like Chef Ramsay, but make it out Landing like he's getting Skies, but it looked like something in a haunted maze to go to exactly wearing someone else's skin really creepy. I think it's like no expression. Yeah, like he just looked like he came out of like your worst nightmare Taro. He wasn't trying to an English accent or anything. So, it's Foolin nobody. Yeah, we're truly terrible. This on everybody you saw this. This was the worst reveal ever and I feel like whatever producer came up with this or I know Gordon didn't my man. Gordon did not come up with this because he'd have a much better idea than this is some intern or something because you're terrible idea and somebody was like this open a great chef James will stand up and rip everything off and everybody will think it's going to be Gordon. Everybody couldn't have been more confused in the restaurant. They were not expecting Ramsey to be under the mask. They were just confused about what was going on. On and then finally when Chef Ramsay who was playing the camera man took his stuff out then the owner was like oh God. Okay, it's happening. Yeah, but the patrons of the restaurant had no idea what to expect. Yeah. Yeah, and the best was when they all started clapping and Chef Ramsay was like, okay there is nothing but the best Beautiful restaurant. I thought I agree. It was really nice. It was upscale wasn't it? Didn't look like very dingy when you walked in like I understood the makeover that they did it was it was nice, but it didn't a hundred percent need it. No, and they didn't go into the kitchen. The kitchen wasn't disgusting. They did focus a little bit on the food. They were saying that somehow it was burnt but raw in the middle, right? It was fishy and mushy. There was some rotten raw halibut, I guess which some Fruit salsa bad Chef Liu did the finger dip testing which is really good. We can't dance like that. That's really gross that is really gross. But compared to what we've seen in previous episodes, not much of anything at all. Really not us. Yeah, and we did so and our special segment in the show. We love to go through and we'll look at the Yelp reviews before and after and we will get to that at the end of this but I just have to tease that the Yelp reviews weren't terrible to start. We're in terrible. Four more after yeah, so I'm curious to see a little bit more about what those what those reviews say, but it was really just basic basically Chef Liu the owner. I mean, I guess call him chef but he has like chefs working for him and line Cooks, right? He was just miserable. He was a miserable angry yelling like horribly mad at his everyone including his I mean, he's making his wife cry. Yeah, that was so sad and he does never see his family. Yes all and the kid Kids. Yeah, he has three daughters. Yeah, and yeah like that that was definitely the most heartbreaking part was how not only how it was affecting his staff, you know, because his staff they were great, right? They were fantastic. They worked well as a team, they were all great chefs. Even Chef Ramsay said himself. He's like you have like the four best chefs. I think I've seen ever very very least two or three of them highly trained to from French official culinary school. The other one was at a more prestigious restaurant to learn from That chef and and then the dude is well learned under another Chef so very very capable chefs again, not like we're used to see it on this. Yeah, it's usually like a bunch of buddies or whatever that just happened to stumble into cooking bunch of line Cooks, right? Like we just got the job. I don't know. We're not even like they used to sell video games at GameStop next door and they're like, well, I need a new job and they're like, well, how are you will pay minimum? I can't Flip Burger. Yeah. Yeah that's were actually proud. Yeah, you know they were that was really sad to see that. You know, they weren't the issue was actually the opposite it was Lou, you know, and then that's really sad, you know when the man that we are expecting to lead a team can't even do so, right, right. So he was the cause, you know of all the problems and then to see also on the flip side the way it was affecting his family. That was just like double whammy I don't that was really sad to see this show really had the triumvirate, you know anti triumvirate, right? It wasn't dirty conditions. It wasn't particularly terrible food. It wasn't a crabby staff that's doing a bad job and you always correct me if I'm wrong because I missed a little bit in the beginning. It didn't seem like crazy financial troubles or anything. He did say he was in debt. Yeah, right a million a million. I mean that's a lot of money but a lot of restaurants are in dead, but like just like we've been saying the main problem is just this guy if you know He's putting all this stress on his employees his wife all these things that it's just him bringing the restaurant down there really weren't other problems with this might be we often say that we could fix these places this lease. We really could probably pick. Yeah literally just tell him to go home and hang out with this kit go take a nap with your children and everything's going to get better. Yeah, that's I know right? How's that for like literally his daughter in a video that Ramsey shows that something like this is what you're doing to your family says, I wish Could come home and we could take a nap. My dad is to come home and be unconscious with. Yeah, you're just like that's sweet. I mean enjoy nap time while you still can take it for real. Yeah. I'm glad that she likes to take naps absolute great. Yeah in a minute. I understand it. They're amazing. I understand when you have someone because I've worked in those because it conditions before when you have somebody that treats you like crap. You're not gonna want to respect them. You're not going to want to work hard for them. They don't give you any leeway to do what you're good at doing so, of course. The state's things are going to go downhill from there. And it was just it really that really was it it was kind of a weird episode because it was unique in the sense that the problem wasn't with the restaurant. It was with him right like you to come in and like kind of be a therapist exactly like the man is just like emotionally disturbed, you know, he has anger issues like that's really was more. So where we were going. Yeah with this whole episode and You know, it just it's just so sad because he was literally self-sabotaging. Yes himself and he was sabotaging his own business and it's and it's crazy because that is the opposite of like every other episodes issue. Like this is like something like none other so they they did some renovation. They updated the dining room modern culture more modern. I see the colors you see the work that they put into it again. It wasn't anything drastic. A lot of these 24-hour ones aren't very drastic in general, but this one for sure. It wasn't very drastic. I'm taking the D chord that's not bringing in more money now, right the food. They brought the Brigade out to the truck. Like they always do but these are capable chefs. You know, Mary was Mary was relieved that that that's her name. Right Mary the the one that trains all the chefs and she comes there right and she finally got something to work with. I showed him some great dishes, you know, they brought them back in and they did the little halibut challenge whereas xia immediately pointed out. Ramses not going to cook this one of the people I think it happens every time and of course surprise Chef Liu actually like the one that Ramsey did and was his person. So all this kind of stuff none of the stuff they really did is going to increase Revenue right? It's a hundred percent in the morale and what ends up going out and it's probably the morale is nailing that quality up a notch, right? Honestly, they probably need to talk to them more about marketing and promotion and advertising because the quality And things like that, the one thing that I think we'd be remiss to not touch on because we're running out of time now is the blatant misogyny obviously mom's can't be chefs. They can't dedicate as much time as needs to be dedicated to the restaurant and Ramsey. His response was wonderful yesterday him down. It was like if I have he employed what he said 85 female chefs. He's like if there is something a lot of restaurants to be fair he does but the point is that if somebody is capable And they're going to do a fantastic job and they can work three nights a week of the head chef. They are a head chef for three nights a week. If it's two nights a week. It's to whatever it is if they're capable of they're going to come in there and do that amazing job on those nights of the week. Absolutely. It had nothing to do with being a mother. It definitely has nothing to do with being a ridiculous. It just goes back to lubing the problem, you know, it goes back to him not taking any accountability right him constantly making excuses. Like I had to take note of this like I noticed that you know when he was told by Chef Ramsay You know that he's angry. He said well nobody's perfect. And yeah, okay. Just just just admit like, okay, maybe I do have some anger issues. Maybe there are some things that I can work on and then when Chef Ramsay also said, you know, the restaurant is going down. He said well, there's worse out there right and you're like, that's not the point. Yeah, stop making excuses. And then maybe you can progress I thought the main Take away the whole lesson from this is showing how your childhood can affect you bring that as an adult right? Because as a kid his dad ran away, he had a sign. I'm in a way. I'm sorry. I don't want to mischaracterize. His dad wasn't in the picture right? He's not being in the picture for his kids and his and his mom needed an alcoholic. That's right. It's a crab's obviously like abusive childhood and had nobody he is making excuses. He's now being that is what he saw. Saw that's how he saw a man treat the woman in his life. So we see him being abusive to the staff and his wife. He might cry constantly at home in the shower in front of the staff, right? Okay, credibly abuse and also just this negative view of women and a mom's going back to like his mom write that negative view of what a mom can and can't do he just needs some Gordon to smack some rewiring into his head. Well, I ain't and I literally wrote the Down right here, he needs therapy. And and I've seen this before he's not the only person that takes these things and handles them in a very angry way. Some people don't know how to handle that kind of hurt and that kind of pain and those those traumatic experiences and that kind of upbringing a lot of those people end up very angry and that is sort of that's what happened and he just he needs a lot of therapy. Yeah, they did do a three months later and it and it did seem like he was doing a lot better. His wife said he was doing better. The staff said he was doing better. So maybe he really I recognize that he was a problem and what was going on and hopefully got some help because I think he really needs that just in his life in general. It really makes you wonder what causes a staff to stick around like you these talented chefs. Why bother I wonder if there are not a lot of other options in that town. I don't know how this one's not is I believe I mean, I'm from Jersey this is gonna be embarrassing but Manasquan I believe is more of a sure. Okay, so there should be other right? People somebody tell us as I love Jersey or I Canada here like Jersey. Let me just look at what he is saying how it's very seasonal to you're from Hawaii. Everywhere is a short Town. Yeah. I got it up on screen. When Lewis saying that it's really a two months out of the Year kind of business because people go down the short because we call it in Jersey you go down the shore so no down the shore down. That's the phrase you go down the shore to Vacation. Everybody's got their spot. They go down the shore and so I'm sure he sees this crazy amount of business June July or something like that. July-august. That's what they said. They said two months out of the year. It's very seasonal but there are people that live in that area. You have to figure out how to get the locals to come year-round. The challenge that's the key to all the magic and everything, but we are running out of time and I do want to get to the Yelp reviews just because I am so curious to see we looked at it before the ship before we started watching my video guys. If you go to Yelp on Yelp. This is called blend by Chef Lou. It's not called Lou on our sorry. It's not called blend on Main. It's my blend by Chef Liu and we know that this was shot there around September early October of last. Last year and if you look at the beginning, the only real negative review is from somebody who went there on New Year's Eve in the service was slow is also probably time everybody every other reviewing here is either four or five stars. So they were doing even going to before and again, I'm already back into May. Oh we got one or two. And it's a long review one. There's one that's one bad but a lot of good. Yeah, but it's overwhelmingly four and five star. So there's you know bad reviews peppered in here, but there's almost no place that doesn't have that. So interesting again, it wasn't necessarily the food or the decor or even the seasonality I would say, it's just this guy and hopefully he you know snaps back to it. I hope so, I would love to see that place flourish and Thrive because the staff were they Were all really wonderful. So I hope for the best for them and for the restaurant and really for lose family. And if I'm ever in Manasquan, I'm going there. Yeah that chicken place is gonna say would you eat there? Yes, we're going to eat there. Yeah. So Fred we're together. We gotta go. Yeah, I'm sure it would be so fun. Yeah next we don't want to meet him. No seems really nice. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Sorry real quick. Episode really made me wonder because of The Talented chefs that he's got it was it was Mary right that what notice our who was the Lisa Lisa Alicia So Lisa, so when when Ramses on the truck and he's talking to Lisa and she's talking in my mind. I'm going what you need to say is I want to work for you. Yeah kind of like Chef. Well, I've learned so much I learned so much and I had some other questions. Can I please like Nick and I and you know Ramsey like of course like boom, where can I work where you have a restaurant? I want to go work for Chef Ramsay. He must have a Ramsay Steak or something in the fabulously put to the test. She was a halibut killed it. Mmm-hmm. Come on. That's what I know is I was thinking the whole time trying to take it. That is a good point. Yeah. Thank you. We are going to have more restaurants next week. Hopefully the next one will be a bit more. Dramatic makeover. Yeah, and I need some cockroaches. I need go on the ceiling. He freaked out more food at people will save this moment to make somebody cry walk out. I don't know. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, it's great. So hopefully we'll get bit more of that next week. But until that if you want to keep up with the conversation about 24 is to hell and back. Where can people find you you can find me on Instagram @ IM da Saba hailemariam guys, my name is Mike feeling. We are still working on getting the AfterBuzz reality back up to streaming because we want to see your comments live, but we do read every one that you read that you read. Wow. We read every one that you leave under the video. Thank you so much for watching. You find me everywhere at Mike feeling. I'm Z Anderson. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @ Z underscore land and also check out my twitch channel. It's twitch.tv slash Zealand. Let's play some video games if you guys like to hang out and watch that I usually stream Sundays. Oh, all right, and awesome. 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Blend on Main is in trouble and only Gordon can help! Chef/owner Lou is abusive to staff, his wife, and is unsanitary, to put it mildly. His staff knows they could do better without him. Gordon identifies that fixing the business begins with Lou from inside - his rough upbringing is affecting both his and his employees' lives. Gordon goes straight to work helping the other chefs in the kitchen learn the new menu and step up - they have amazing ability but Lou hasn't let them shine until now. Next Gordon connects with Lou's wife Tara to learn more about their family life. Gordon shows Lou a video of his kids who miss him. Then Gordon cooks a halibut dish and challenges Lou to cook one as well but surprise - the staff is cooking not Gordon! Renovation is done and it's time for the re-launch, but Lou can't expedite politely. Gordon pep talks him and Lou straightens out. People love the food! And the kiddos come in for a visit to round out the night. Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Xia Andersen, Mike Thieling, Saba Hailemariam  Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more After Shows for your favorite TV shows and the latest news in TV, Film, and exclusive celebrity interviews, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 