Does this leave a bad taste in the mouth?

[Jonnyboy]

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Pierre-Victoire-restaurant-chain-returns.6313588.jp

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Does this leave a bad taste in the mouth?

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Pierre-Victoire-restaurant-chain-returns.6313588.jp

:agree: Just as well I don't like french food :bitchy:

[hibsbollah]

I'd never realised they'd gone out of business in the first place:embarrass

I liked their food back in the day.

[ballengeich]

Mixed feelings. The restaurants were good. Was the chain's failure a result of fraud or financial incompetence? I don't know.

[Hibbyradge]

:agree: Just as well I don't like french food :bitchy:

How can you make such a generalisation about "French food"?

[J-C]

Mixed feelings. The restaurants were good. Was the chain's failure a result of fraud or financial incompetence? I don't know.


Looking at the article it looked like financial incompetence, the guy was on the Iron Chef programme a couple of weeks back, his food he cooked did get rave revues from the expert judges. It looks like he took on more than he could with all his franchises and things got out of hand, if he sticks to just the one decent restaurant and put his heart into that I see no problems.

[the_ginger_hibee]

He skimmed £2m out of the buissness when the whole thing was going tits up, with hard working people losing their jobs.

Hope he fails at the expense of only himself.

[hibsbollah]

:agree: Just as well I don't like french food :bitchy:

cheesy toast?
omelettes?
every sauce youve ever heard of?
:greengrin

[steakbake]

I'm not too bothered.

If I have occasion to go to his restaurant, I won't be working myself up into a moral quandry about how he operates.

If you only ate at places where you could approve of the business ethics of the people who run it, you'd go hungry. Funny how we might quibble over a guy whose pulled a bit of a financial fast-one for the sake of self preservation yet McDonalds etc have far more worrying and unethical practises on a much larger scale than this guy could possibly serve up and they're pretty much packed to the rafters all day with punters.

[ArabHibee]

:agree: Just as well I don't like french food :bitchy:

Don't you like chips? :cool2:

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How can you make such a generalisation about "French food"?

Easy. If I was going out for a meal, a French restaurant would be bottom of the list by a long long way


cheesy toast?
omelettes?
every sauce youve ever heard of?
:greengrin

Hoisin :confused:

And I like a good spanish omelette :greengrin



Don't you like chips? :cool2:

You need to check your culinary history. They originated in Belgium :na na:

[ArabHibee]

Easy. If I was going out for a meal, a French restaurant would be bottom of the list by a long long way



Hoisin :confused:

And I like a good spanish omelette :greengrin




You need to check your culinary history. They originated in Belgium :na na:
Not the ones you get in a French restaurant.

[Danderhall Hibs]

Not the ones you get in a French restaurant.

Or in McDonalds.