Labrador, you’re Pete Wells, aren’t you?
If I was, maybe I could get this damn book published. 
That’s easy. He’s the guy who played Robocop. Right?
I thought Pete Wells was the guy who left the Beatles. 
Captain Douche responds with a tidal wive of butthurt.
Best part is when the interviewer brings up that it’s one thing for food snobs to peer down over their monocles at restaurants, but even on Yelp, where you could literally feed them a turd sandwich and they’d review it with 4.5 stars, those folks only gave it 2.5. Not really impressing people. His response is “Well we’re too new to get good reviews.” Child, don’t even. Every time a new place opens, everyone and their nephew runs out to try it, and very new restaurants often get rave reviews very quickly. Your restaurant sucks almost as much as you do, Fieri!
Wow, not only is Guy serving shitty food, but he’s also charging an arm and a leg for it.
http://www.guysamerican.com/menu/
Honestly, $17.50 for a fucking salad?
This image is on the webpage. I don’t have anything else to say.
Times Square restaurants are crazy expensive no matter what. They’ve got to pay for the rent and the glitz. When we were in NY, my wife almost paid $35 for a Reuben, with giant warnings “NO SHARING! NO DOGGY BAGS!” on the menu. Luckily I convinced her we should walk 5 blocks away to a real Deli, where she got an outstanding Reuben for $11.
I like this:
Hey 'shnozzle, are you selling food? Are you discounting it or giving it away?
No, you’re not. If you’re charging full price, don’t expect me to lower my expectations because you haven’t learned what you’re doing yet! You can’t charge me an arm and leg, then act all whiny because I expect arm-and-a-leg quality!
The irony is that I am sure this kerfuffle will generate a metric shit-ton of publicity and traffic for that restaurant. I mean, the type of folks who want to take in today’s Time Square and go to the big ESPN Zone and Disney restaurants there would most likely love to say they went to Douchebag’s, er, Guy’s place and checked it out themselves. I am not meaning to be condescending - it would just be a part of a big NYC, Times Square Pop-Culture Extravaganza…hey, I got the t-shirt!
He really is a douchebag, isn’t he?
And as mentioned in the review, his DD&D show is supposed to fucking celebrate the best of diner-style cooking from around America. So when he opens up a place called “Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar” in goddamned Times Square, I expect it to represent that same kind of food - awesome, probably not good for you but tasting really good, Americana of all styles and regions. Instead you apparently get fuckups galore and greasy, limp, poorly-cooked crap for that premium real estate price.
And I’m calling bullshit on his excuse about not being open that long. This isn’t his first restaurant; he knows better than that. A local restaurateur opened his third restaurant (different style than either of his other two) near me, and from what I heard from a business owner nearby, they were running “dress rehearsal” services for a week before the actual grand opening to try to work out any issues. That’s not going to magically fix anything, but we went only in a week after opening and it looked flawless. No forgotten ingredients or chemical flavors or clueless waitstaff.
So I’m glad this review is infamous. Maybe some Jill American tourist from elsewhere on her first big trip to NYC who just loves DD&D will decide to pull out her smartphone when she’s standing outside this place and Google to check menu prices or something, and she’ll pull up this review. Maybe she’ll roll her eyes at the dissing of Fieri but read long enough to see the issues with the food, and give it a pass. If she’s really sharp, she’ll check for the places he raved about on his show, and look at their reviews instead!
Certified.
We’ve been to his Jonny Garlic’s in Roseville California. The meal and service was so bad the i ran out of room on the comment card. The manager compted half the meal.
I’ve never heard of Guy Fieri, but I’m glad to hear that he’s regarded as an asshole, because that review was actually making me feel bad for him. The amount of snark and vitriol in that thing was otherwise just off-putting.
Yep. I don’t know if it will actually help sales, but I’m almost positive it won’t hurt them. In my experience the vast majority of people refuse to pay any attention to reviews, whether they’re picking a movie, a book, a restaurant, or anything else. Almost all the people who were gonna go there are still gonna go there.
I can tell you that the Vanity Fair review of L’ami Louis posted above didn’t even put a dent in its business, nor has it seemed to damage its reputation in the slightest.
I dislike Guy Fieri. I also dislike the food review that is entirely constructed of questions.
It’s not a place I’ll ever eat, but the “only been open 6 months” dog ain’t gonna hunt.
You served cold French Fries to a food critic. The same food critic could go to a DQ or Sonic where the entire staff has less than 6 months experience combined and get hot fries.
Yeah, the consensus is that he’s pretty much an all-around, unrepentant dick. Here’s an article about DDD’s former producer, David Page. Neither he nor Guy come off looking like angels, but seriously:
Also…
Nice.