Anthony Bourdain: "Every restaurant in America would shut down" if Trump won

The Hill ^ | October 30, 2015 | Mark Hensch

[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.

[IrishBrigade]

What a moron.

Isn’t he the one that goes all around the world, munching on earthworms, scorpions,and other assorted local delicacies...? Explains a lot...

[BitWielder1]

There are plenty of Americans and LEGAL immigrants to fill the restaurant kitchens.

[TexasCajun]

Bourdain is ignorant, arrogant POS !!

Can't cook either!

[gogeo]

So that's why we should torch the greatest society in the history of the world...restaurant help.

The word stupid seems inadequate.

[jazusamo]

Tony should stick to cooking his beans.

[Steamburg]

That tells us what the dirt bag tasteless hack really thinks of food quality vs. profit margin.

[marron]

He thinks every restaurant is violating the law.

I don’t believe him. Its hyperbole. Its silly.

[lonestar]

Do the illegals in the kitchens have health cards...or health issues?

[JPG]

[JediJones]

The deportation does have to be paired with slashing of welfare/unemployment/”disability”/bennies for everything to work as smoothly as possible. The native-born “won’t do” the jobs because they don’t need to because they’re on the dole.

[McGruff]

And don't let it hit you on the way out.

[Williams]

Isn’t he a racist because he won’t hire African Americans? Don’t they have a high unemployment and poverty rate? Is he saying African American citizens lack the skills to be short order cooks?

[HarleyLady27]

Considering the fact that most of the restaurants are working ‘illegal immigrants’ yes I suppose they would be shut down...those are the only ones this idiot drunk visits anyway....

[Domandred]

20, 30 years ago high schoolers and college students did those jobs. And people that wanted to move up in the industry and just needed a foot in the door.

Corrupt businessmen are using illegal immigrants as modern day slaves because they don’t have to pay them as well.

[WayneS]

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.

OR... ...the nation's restaurants could hire legal immigrants and even, perhaps, U.S. citizens.

I know, I know, it's a CRAZY idea; but these are crazy times...

[CGASMIA68]

Should read “X-Crack head spews BS”.

[IrishBrigade]

then people will need to eat at home. It’s pretty simple, really.

The mere thought of such a thing is enough to drive many people I know to commit suicide...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, then, Anthony, maybe you’d have to get back to making an honest living, /S.

I like Anthony’s shows, but I think his perspective is narrow, and he’s easily misled. According to him, Detroit and Libya are cool, if disrupted, places. The only time I saw him really unsettled was in Lebanon, when he was basically trapped at a hotel while the Israelis responded to Hezbollah a few miles away.

[EDINVA]

How many hospitals in LA had to close because of being overwhelmed by illegals using their ERs? I see it here in VA ... any given night, the ER is overflowing with folks who’ve been sick all week with minor issues (cold, sore throat, cuts, etc) but wait till the end of the work week to see the doctor ... at the ER where they must be seen without charge if they don’t have the $. And they NEVER have the $.

[dfwgator]

No they wouldn’t, the good ones will adapt and overcome.