Posted on 06/15/2013 8:59:36 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Hot-tempered chef Gordon Ramsay is facing a kitchen nightmare of his own.
The celebrity chef has been hit with a class-action lawsuit from past and present employees of his new Fat Cow restaurant in Los Angeles.
They're claiming the cranky cook failed to pay minimum wages for the hours they worked as well as meal breaks, overtime wages and more.
In documents obtained by RadarOnline.com Jennifer Becerra, Montinique Dever, Andrea Bourke and Lauren Benge are bringing the lawsuit on behalf of themselves as the other hourly employees................
It's not the first time Ramsay's 'Fat Cow' restaurant has been the subject of lawsuits.
Earlier this year, the place was sued for not paying a contractor in full with the shouty chef owing a contractor $45,350 for kitchen equipment.
Fiery Gordon has become a hit in the US after his shows, Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares were syndicated to US TV network Fox.
The expletive-ridden show follows the chef as he aims to turn around failing restaurants.
Gordon and his team often overhaul the menu, the decor and even the staff, though many of them end up closing a few months later despite his best efforts.
His job as the host of Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef and Kitchen Nightmares, pays him an estimated $15 million per year.
Gordon Ramsay is the owner of 27 restaurants and holds 11 Michelin stars.
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They act like he is there and personally running the place
(1) Settle.
(2) Close the place.
(3) Leave Californicated.
Did he name the restaurant to honor Hillary Clinton?
He’s the deepest pocket they can find.
Gordon Ramsay not f***ing paying his f***ing employees? Absolutely f***ing amazing.
Never screw with a mans paycheck.
Gordon Ramsey is an ass and that show is so formulaic you could take one week’s script, mass edit the names, and use it the next 10 episodes. Fake contrived drama, dubious “expertise,” and rigid predictability make “Kitchen Nightmares” a bad dream.
The Kitchen Impossible guy stiffed employees at least one of his restaurants the same way a couple of years ago. Maybe they’re spreading themselves a little thin, maybe they are the “my way or the highway” in every respect of their lives.
In one of the recent shows, the owners of the restaurant kept the employees’ tips, saying they paid the employees enough already. Never mind it’s breaking that state’s laws concerning tips.
As for this, it’s got to be those managing the restaurant and books. There’ll be hell to pay.
Beg pardon, that was “Dinner: Impossible”, the one where the guy has to cook for two hundred people on short notice, or he’s in the desert, etc., not “Kitchen Impossible” on HGTV where a different guy remodels your kitchen. Not to be confused with his new show “Restaurant: Impossible” where he goes around to bad restaurants and yells at everybody who works there.
Turns out he made up a lot of stuff about his history and got fired BTW:
“Robert Irvine had recently admitted that he lied about being Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He also claimed that he was discovered by Prince Charles, while Irvine was a chef on a Royal Navy Vessel. Irvine said that he had worked as a traveling chef for Prince Charles and Princess Diana, he also said he had worked for several presidents including Clinton, Bush, and Regan. It has been found that many of these things were lies or exaggerated.”
http://voices.yahoo.com/food-network-host-robert-irvine-let-go-1264857.html?cat=4
If your working chef cannot make the same dish for six weeks in a row and you are the head Chef you have problems!
“IT’S RAW”
The guy is a jerk. Why people like him I don’t know.
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