Supporting your local restaurant

On his Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay came up with the idea of supporting local restaurants by getting more people in on quiet weekday nights by having a pie night. Now more than ever, restaurants need to come up with quality produce and great food at affordable prices. The concept seems to be right on the money, as this will create interest among the local clientele and also reduce the costs of production for the restaurant. Hopefully, the restaurants will be able to buy bigger quantities from their local suppliers which will help them too.

It’s a fair point to say that quite a lot of restaurants may close due to this credit crunch, so maybe even local hotels could run theme nights to generate interest with music or comedy to compliment the food. When Ramsay highlights this issue, he’s doing a great service to the hospitality industry (perhaps not so much of the swearing though!) and I think he deserves the full 5 stars.