The Plonker Club

Believe it or not, Gordon Ramsay Holdings is finally going where Jamie Oliver has been for years and are now embracing technology. We all know that www.gordonramsay.com is rarely upadted with much relevant, which is why this website was started, but it seems that someone at GRH has heard the cry and is now Twittering on behalf of the Restaurant empire.

At the time of writing Gordon Ramsay Holding (who’s Twitter handle is GRamsayHoldings) has 325 followers whereas Jamie Oliver has 157,998! It is not the prettiest nor the best branded page, but it is a start!

Anyway, the updates are great, specials at vaeious Gordon ramsay restaurants, notice on where shows are airing all over the world! The address for sign up is http://twitter.com/GRamsayHoldings and while you are there you will obviously want to sign up for the Plonker Club twitter feed as well, at http://twitter.com/ThePlonkerClub – we have 646 followers!!

Great to hear that GRH are embracing social media and Web 2.0, so support them and start clicking!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Channel 4 have been inundated with applications and have thus extended the deadline to submit your favourite local restaurant – which then allows you to apply for a spot in the F Word restaurant for next seasons show.

The criteria to nominate your favourite local restaurant as the best in one of eight categories (British, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Indian,Thai and ‘other’)- as listed on the official Channel 4 page are as follows

1. Serve high quality food

2. Provide great service

3. Are run by people who are passionate about food

4. Are run by people who deliver above and beyond expectation

5. Are run by people who exhibit pride and passion for their craft and profession

Restaurants should also meet the following criteria, otherwise they may be excluded:

6. Have at least 2 chefs

7. Be willing to take part in The F Word programme and are available for filming on specific dates to be notified by us in advance from July to December 2009

8. Be available to take part in an interview over the phone with us at a time of our choosing

9. The chefs taking part in the Programme and owner(s) of the restaurant do not have any criminal convictions and are not (from the date of nomination to the date of broadcast) under any criminal investigation

10. The chefs taking part in the Programme and owner(s) of the restaurant must sign our contributor release form

Also the food needs to available for £50 (excluding wine) for two, not be a restaurant chain and have at least 10 seats.

Get your vote sin and then to get work convincing the producers why you are a worthy UK resident to be served in the F-Word restaurant.

Don’t delay

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

The new series of the Gordon Ramsay’s hit television show ‘The F-word’ will be shooting later this year, Channel 4 in the UK has already started planning the content including a competition to select your favourite local restaurant.

For more details follow these links – but hurry, entires close July 17 at midnight (UK time).
http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/f-word/about-the-f-word-series-5-09-06-17_p_1.html

http://www.fword.tv/nominate.aspx

The dates that the show will be recorded as as follows (according to the application form!)

16th Sep 09
18th Sep 09
23rd Sep 09
25th Sep 09
30th Sep 09

2nd Oct 09
7th Oct 09
9th Oct 09
20th Oct 09
21st Oct 09
22nd Oct 09
26th Oct 09
27th Oct 09
28th Oct 09

2nd Nov 09
3rd Nov 09
4th Nov 09
11th Nov 09

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Here’s a clip that is simply called ‘The Confrontation’. It features ex-marine Joseph offering to take Gordon Ramsay ‘Out into the Car Park’ after copping too much abuse. Of all the people in the show, one would have thought that a former soldier would be used to this (have you seen Full Metal Jacket??!!) – maybe that is why he is an ex-marine??

Enjoy the clip and don’t forget to enter the competition to win an autographed copy of Gordon Ramsay’s latest cookbook – Great British Pub Food – go to the Plonker Club Forums for more details by clicking here. I think picking the winner of Hell’s Kitchen for this great prize just got a little easier!

Enjoy!

Chief Plonker

The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon RamsayFansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Sarah Symonds Following my Gordon Ramsay Fansite on Twitter

While doing some internet marketing for The Plonker Club – The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite, I’ve been using a Twitter tool with which I type in a keyword and it finds people who have that same word associated with their account. Imagine my surprise when I wake up this morning to find the program had not only signed me up to a Sarah Symonds Twitter feed, but this person had consequently signed up to follow the Plonker Club Twitter feed (which can be found at http://twitter.com/ThePlonkerClub). I checked and it contained a photo of THE Sarah Symonds and some of her tweets suggest that it is really her (tweets about upcoming interviews, a link to her website etc).

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