{"id":1264,"date":"2009-12-09T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-12-09T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:57:06","slug":"you-stupid-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"You Stupid Donkey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1265\" title=\"Blog - Kitchen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Blog-Kitchen-150x128.jpg\" alt=\"Blog - Kitchen\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" \/>Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has built a reality-television empire with his  abrasive style, ready arsenal of barbed insults and propensity for four-letter  words. It all adds up to great television. But in the case of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Kitchen Nightmares, <\/span>which focuses on Ramsay&#8217;s  attempts to save failing restaurants, the entertainment is also packed with  entrepreneurial insight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the show,&#8221; says Janine Popick at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Vertical Response<\/span> blog, &#8220;because he gets down  into the inner workings of a small business and peels away the onion to find any  issues that might be hampering the business from growing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She finds six business lessons in the story arc of each episode. Here are  some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ramsay starts with  an honest assessment of the situation.<\/span> You cannot fix something until you  know what&#8217;s wrong, and he always begins by observing a typical lunch or dinner  service. Most are, predictably, disastrous. &#8220;He also takes to the streets,&#8221;  notes Popick. &#8220;[I]n many shows he walks the streets of the town to observe other  restaurants and he&#8217;ll stop people and ask what they think about the restaurant  he&#8217;s trying to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">He then  identifies, and tries to rectify, fundamental problems.<\/span> A strong business  is built on a strong foundation. Disturbingly, almost all of the restaurants on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/kitchennightmares\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Kitchen Nightmares<\/span><\/a> share one failure in  common: filthy kitchens that must be cleaned before anything else can happen.  Beyond that, Ramsay addresses the unique mix of issues challenging each  restaurant\u00e2\u20ac\u201deverything from poor leadership to overambitious menus to subpar  chefs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">The Po!nt:<\/span> Whatever you think of Gordon Ramsay, you just might benefit from his simple  formula for jumpstarting a struggling business.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingprofs.com\/short-articles\/1542\/you-stupid-donkey \">Marketing Profs<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><em><em>EH9A4F8WXNRR<\/em><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has built a reality-television empire with his abrasive style, ready arsenal of barbed insults and propensity for four-letter words. It all adds up to great television. But in the case of Kitchen Nightmares, which focuses on Ramsay&#8217;s attempts to save failing restaurants, the entertainment is also packed with entrepreneurial insight. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[32,215,216,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}