Gordon Ramsay Interview – Jay Leno August 4

Gordon Ramsay has once again appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Gordon Ramsay was involved with a little skit at the start of the show, and then appeared onstage 18:45 minutes into the show as the first guest to talk about Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef (during the intro Jay Leno announced that Masterchef had the biggest premier of the summer).

Gordon Ramsay vs Jay Leno

Gordon Ramsay and Jay Leno have a great history of verbally sparring across the desk and over the stove.

In tonight’s performance, Jay immediately called Gordon out for his tweet “going on @jayleno tonight, love being on the show but my god he can’t cook! So tonight we’re going back to basics”. Read more…

That’s right, our favourite chef has now entered the 21st century and now has his own personal twitter handle. News broke in mid January of this year that Gordon Ramsay was undergoing ‘training’ and was to start broadcasting his life (on his terms) to the world via the popular social media site.

True to his words (and offically verified by Gordon Ramsay Holdings) his twitter handle in GordonRamsay01 and thus the website http://www.twitter.com/GordonRamsay01.

Sign up and follow the great man now! We at The Plonker Club will also grab the RSS feed of Chef Gordon’s tweets and post them here (I’m sending an email now to make sure that it is ok) so you can follow his exploits here if your aren’t Twitter proficient!

Here are some other Gordon Ramsay-related Twitter sites;

http://twitter.com/hellskitchenfox – Hells Kitchen on Fox

http://twitter.com/GRamsayHoldings – Gordon Ramsay Holdings – handles most of Gordon’s domestic restaurant marketing and management

http://twitter.com/PlaneFood – Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant/take away spot at Heathrow Airport.

And of Course don’t forget the Plonker Club – the home of the Unofficial Gordon Ramsay fansite!

Get-a-tweeting!

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

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To the best of our knowledge Gordon Ramsay doesn’t have his own Twitter handle (and I’m here to tell the 25 000 people who signed up for RamseyGordo – that he’s not that bad at spelling! Here are the twitter addresses to date

http://twitter.com/hellskitchenfox – Hells Kitchen on Fox

http://twitter.com/GRamsayHoldings – Gordon Ramsay Holdings – handles most of Gordon’s domestic restaurant marketing and management

http://twitter.com/PlaneFood – Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant/take away spot at Heathrow Airport.

Get-a-tweeting!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

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).

Get the full story here

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

And if you want a piece of it, you better get it soon! Maybe we need a Kitchen Nightmare done on this business?? If the following report from The Times is accurate and without a rescue packageit could be the end for this Gordon Ramsay line of products.

If you want to get your Gordon Ramsay Royal Doulton, Wedgewood and Waterford products, move quickly because according to the following news report, they are GOOOONE!

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article5454851.ece

Obviously this has nothing to do with Gordon Ramsay himself, or currently accusations of affairs with Sarah Symonds, merely a result of the global economic crisis and a bunch of other economic stuff that I don’t understand.

In fact the Gordon Ramsay brand continues to be going strong with a new cookbook being released shortly on Pub Food, new Kitchen Nightmares being cast in the USA and several other unaired Gordon Ramsay television programs in the vault. This as well as plans for new Restaurants all across the world, including Australia and Gordon ramsay Plane Food being a hit (and another possible business franchise)

So if you are looking for the best deals on Gordon Ramsay Cookware, Kitchenware or Glassware, follow the links at the end of this page – remember that when you buy from Amazon, you aren’t just buying from one place. The ‘New and Used’ link ensures that you are getting the most from a worldwide market – you are in fact comparison shopping in one location. For example, with Amazon you can save $270 vs the recommendede retial price – by looking at the other sellers, you can save another $160.

So get shopping an get Gordon Ramsay Signature Cookware, Bakeware and Glassware before is becomes a true collectors item and disappears!

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