Plonker:
1. a stupid or inept person
2. slang for ‘penis’
3. a devoted fan of Gordon Ramsay
The Plonker Club:
a safe gathering place for fans of the
great Chef Gordon Ramsay
I’ve just watched Episode One of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (season 5) and it was excellent! While still recovering from the yet unconfirmed news that my favourite Gordon Ramsay show ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ may not be seen again (short of those crappy US episodes that were filmed earlier this year) Read more…
Gordon Ramsay is back for a fifth season with one of his most popular television series – The F Word in November.
As with seasons past, competitors will be cooking in his kitchen each week and this year, hoping to make the final for a yet unknown prize. These competitors will be made up of chefs and owners from top restaurants (as voted by the public) for the past few months. This ’support your local restaurant’ theme has been popular with Gordon Ramsay in years past and never more than during the current ‘credit crunch’ and will no doubt give some struggling restaurants some much needed publicity and highly qualified referrals. Read more…
Gordon Ramsay has launched his latest cookbook, following a long and successful line of cookbooks that have come from previous version of his hit television show The F Word. This one will be no different and reflects the diverse cooking styles that featured throughout season four of this latest hit and rather more subdued television show.
Although Gordon Ramsay doesn’t have an official link to this product (i.e. the name isn’t his), he has been endorsing it since 2007, check out this video. It involves putting the G in G&T and will also be linked with an advertising campaign through the UK’s Daily Telegraph called ‘The Friday’ which can be found here! and will help you to get the most out of your weekends!
Here’s a great billboard ad that I found while trolling the net, a Gordon’s Gin ad from a few years ago!
2007 Gordon's Gin Billboard featuring Gordon Ramsay
Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com
With the publication of a story by the Wall Street Journal here today, it seems that July’s news of Gordon Ramsay profits down 90% are back in the headlines and white hot on Twitter! Surprisingly, this bastion of Financial Reporting seems to tell us nothing new from two months ago and may still only tell half the story! To my untrained eye, it seems that they have just edited togther the news from a few months ago along with some statements from a media interview.
In short, the article made the following allegations about Gordon Ramsay Holdings (including several statements that he has made months earlier in the UK and Australia! – great job!)
* That they had left the Prague Restaurant
* Returned ownership of Restaurants to the hotels that they are housed in Los Angeles and Paris
* Fired about 15% of his roughly 1,200-person staff
* Consolidating menus making them more cost effective and less pretentious
* Invested his own money which included selling his Ferrari (which he told an Australian reporter wasn’t an issue since he was getting the new one coming out the following month)
The Wall Street Journal Article Online
It seems though that a not so well publicised article released around the time of the original furore in July stated that reporters were openly getting half the story! This article tells us that many Gordon Ramsay Enterprises aren’t listed on the profit and loss sheets of Gordon Ramsay Holdings – such as Foxtrot Oscar, Plane Food, Murano or the York and Albany, not to mention the two newest pubs, The Warrington and The Devonshire. Interestingly, it states that Gordon Ramsay Holdings did ‘front’ some of the capital for these ventures and thus the expenses would appear without any return on investment – to the sum of at least £15 million. It seems that if the Wall Street Journal also looked at the figures of Gordon Ramsay Holdings International (which accounts for some domestic Gordon Ramsay Enterprises).
The Plonker Club has emailed the author of the Wall Street Journal piece to clarify whether they had made the same mistake most of the worldwide media had made a few months ago – stay tuned!
Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com
