The general public tends3 to remember flavors, meals, and restaurants.
Indeed, it’s incredibly rare, but a select few chefs enjoy a true celebrity status.
Of course, with celebrity also comes opportunity.
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Famous chefs often look to capitalize on their popularity by opening their own restaurant.
Ironically, running a successful restaurant might actually be more difficult than succeeding as a chef.
Still, that works out to one in three new restaurants shutting down within just one calendar year.
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The late, great Anthony Bourdain was one of the most recognizable “celebrity chefs” in recent memory.
Working as a chef in New York City for decades, Bourdain watched countlessrestaurants open and failin record time.
The experience left him with a pessimistic, if not realistic, perspective on owning a restaurant.
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“To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction.
What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people?
He wrote in his best-selling bookKitchen Confidential.
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After all these years in the business, I still don’t know.”
Bourdain may have avoided the restaurant business, but the same can’t be said for many others.
Here are five celebrity chefs whose restaurants ended up being a flop.
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So why is he on this list?
To start, the West Coast eatery earned a poor review inLA Weeklytitled “Fat Cow?
Gordon Ramsay’s New Grove Restaurant Disappoints,” Ouch.
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It wasn’t just bad reviews that sank The Fat Cow.
Less than a year after opening Ramsay was hit with a lawsuit by the restaurant’s contractoralleging unpaid bills.
Talk about Hell’s Kitchen.
The past few years, however, have been incredibly unkind toThe Naked Chefstar.
By May 2019,Oliver’s entire restaurant grouphad entered into bankruptcy.
All told, 22 of his once 25 restaurants are now gone.
What about the actual food?
One of the original Iron Chefs, Morimoto’s credentials speak for themselves.
Tribeca Canvas seemed like a sure thing, until patrons tried the food.
The restaurant received scathingreviews from numerous local outlets.
You’ve had finer corn dogs from a box."
All told, the restaurant was shut down completely in less than a year.
