The Canteen: Revisited

After visiting the failing eatery 'The Canteen', run by Sam Anella on behalf of investors CaterLink and trying to fix the ailing business, Ramsay revisits the restaurant a month on.

Gordon: (overdubbed) Since I was last here, and the owners of The Canteen failed to take my advice to heart and refused to change their ways. They were intent on selling sweetcorn in small cups, they were adamant that pizzas should be long and thin and many customers were disgruntled when their jelly desserts kept getting smaller and smaller. I had no option but to walk away. Without changing their ways, business has hit an all time low.

[Gordon walks up to closed shutters and knocks on them.]

Gordon: No answer. Last week my team, as well as all those that had depended on The Canteen for lunch, received news that the leaseholders of The Canteen, Hampstead Inc., were removing CaterLink from the plot and closing the place down. Hampstead hopes to reopen the doors to The Canteen after Easter, but who will run it remains unknown.

I have nineteen restaurants open at this moment and sixteen Michelin stars to my name, but I wouldn't open a twentieth here, and I don't know anyone that would. This place has all the ambience of a ****ing mortuary.

[Shot of sad dinnerladies throwing old pizza husks out in large black bin liners, followed by a tiny bag filled with all their jellies, as sad music plays in the background.]

Gordon: The school has promised new furniture, a new menu and a new, healthier outlook in the eatery, but is it all too late?

[Gordon ducks to avoid a passing flurry of bats that come out of a ceiling panel, sidesteps a tuna pasta bake on the floor and storms out.]