His wife, Ottavia Bourdain, is a UFC Ultimate Fighter / MMA champion from Brazil and has stated on his show that keeps on the straight-and-narrow out of fear.
I guess that is the reason he attempted to bash Trump.
Posted on 10/30/2015 12:43:01 PM PDT by Biggirl
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain says America's restaurant industry would shut down if Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Bourdain blasted Trump's vow to deport illegal immigrants if elected, saying it would leave the nation's kitchens empty.
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Anthony B. is quite full of himself on just about any subject he should care to discuss. He may be right, to some degree, about the number of illegals employed in restaurant kitchens. It will vary widely by city but my son and daughter are/were both in the industry as managers and had plenty of Spanish-speakers, supposedly legal, but what’s a little paper, right?
If Trump’s plan became reality and many chose to self-deport and abandon jobs, those jobs would eventually be filled because nature abhors a vacuum. Costs in restaurants might go up, various construction tasks would require more money (thinking roofing and masonry work in my area), some manufacturing might be affected. We’d work through it and it wouldn’t be the disaster Tony thinks.
Syrian Christians, Syrian Jews, no problem. Syrian Muslims (or any other kind of Muslim), BIG problem!
American citizens should put up with illegals BECAUSE elites want to eat in nice restaurants. Nice places that keep their profits high on the backs of illegals while the rest of us eat cardboard frys at McDonalds so fast food employees can be paid $15 an hour?
Yeah, right.
Get illegals OUT of my county. Let someone else do without so the friggin' elites have a better go of it.
Hillary and liberal elites get the gold - American citizens get the shaft? No Way Jose. Send them home - all of ‘em.
There is a relatively simple fix for that; bill the country of origin of the illegal for the services, and take it out of their foreign aid package or balance of payments account.
one of my first jobs at 15 -16 years old was washing dishes and busing tables. at that time full time students could be paid up to 15% less than minimum wage...which is what I received.
I watch many cooking/restaurant shows.
It’s amazing, almost all shown have a full cooking staff of Hispanics, likely Mexican as most know so little English they can’t take orders.
Illegals cooking French, Irish, American, Cajun, Chinese.
I will love to see them fired, sent packing.
As far as Bourdain, I’ve never thought much of him. How he has that TV show is beyond me.
“So Anthony thinks every resturant worker in America is an illegal alien? Is that racist?”
The reason illegals work in kitchens is because American whites and blacks wouldn’t take the egotistical chefs bullcrap.
Standard unemployment isn’t welfare.
Extended unemployment is - when the government ups the number of weeks from the “insured” number to 99 weeks.
What Anthony Bourdain is basing his comment on, are his connections with a huge number of cooks in his world wide ventures. These are cooks that have mastered homespun ingredients and techniques and have brought them to the kitchens of restaurants in their countries. Some have come to world renowned restaurants. Bourdain has been fortunate to sample much on the streets and in the homes of people in faraway lands. In this context, I can understand Bourdain who would want people in America to experience such cooking. And they have. Many immigrants, both legal and illegal have brought their native specialties into our nation’s restaurants. If these restaurants valued these foreign chefs, they would work to get these illegal chefs work permits and put them on the road to citizenship. Otherwise, Bourdain has no case.
Look at all the jobs they are stealing then
It's more stupid than racist.
His wife, Ottavia Bourdain, is a UFC Ultimate Fighter / MMA champion from Brazil and has stated on his show that keeps on the straight-and-narrow out of fear.
I guess that is the reason he attempted to bash Trump.
I was being sarcastic. I thought Obama was only allowing Syrian muslims in.
An old, old friend of mine has owned a local diner for about 40 years, he’s from Greece but is a naturalized, proud of it, U.S. citizen. He refuses to hire Mexicans, he’s really pissed at the illegals, having gone to great expense and studying for citizenship himself.
All the country clubs & upper class restaurant use work release inmates, don’t they have jails where he is?
Fine, I don’t need an illegal alien to cook for me.
Worse, we taught our children to look upon manual labor jobs with disdain and disgust instead of the learning experience and stepping stone they are. That's what really opened the door to invasion.
I was a dish washer at a supper club when I was 14. Very hard work, but we had fun!
I never got to, because I was either in the old mans sawmill cleaning it or out in the woods piling pulpwood.
Lots and lots of my fellow classmates worked in either supper clubs-like yourself, or in gas stations.
I used to make 7 bucks a day..late 60s, during the summer, and dammed if I didnt spend it all on the weekends running around in my hotrod.
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