Remember the show The Restaurant that featured celebrity chef Rocco Disperito and his eatery, Rocco's on 22nd? I was actually into it for a while. As a fan of cooking, I thought it was a somewhat interesting show.
You can read a blog entry about it here on my blog
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Well, it seems that his dream, his lifelong goal of having a restaurant that featured his Italian upbrining, is dead
I say good. The women may love the guy, but I think as a person he has a lot to be desired. He is rude to his workers, inconsistent in his leadership, and not very loyal to those in his employ. |
I've always enjoyed cooking. For a while I tinkered with the idea of being a chef. But watching this guy made me want to enter the food service business less and less. Every show I watched made me angrier at the way he treated his waitstaff and chefs. Maybe this is how master chefs and restaurant owners treat their staff in a big city like New York, but I believe that the majority of middle Americans were shocked at the way he related to his workers.
And on that aspect alone Rocco deserved to have his dream crushed.
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Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
hey tom,
at one point i wanted to be a chef as well (actually back when i was a kid...don't know why that idea vanished)
a bunch of years back (about 15) the idea resurfaced. i checked out schools and everything. the problem is that you've gotta work your ass off to get not much money.
read one of those anthony bourdain books, that'll convince ya too.
i never heard of this show. did it have a limited geographical showing or something (i'm in new hampshire)
2 - Eric Olsen
nice one Tom, and I agree, there's basically no excuse to be a dick
Oh, and I can put bread in the toaster and boil water