Before Food Took Over Reality TV, There Was NBC’s ‘The Restaurant’

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Before 'Top Chef,' before Gordon Ramsay's unending procession of TV shows, and even 'Iron Chef America,' there was 'The Restaurant'

, DiSpirito talks about his lifelong struggles with anxiety, noting that in order to better perform the role of charming guests , he worked with an acting coach to script interactions. The lessons proved effective, at least on the surface: He swans around pressing the flesh, often literally — he sticks his tongue in a woman’s ear, and she runs her hand under his shirt — in a blazer and collared shirt with the top few buttons undone.

Yet for viewers, DiSpirito became a reality TV trope, one which must have come as a shock to him: the villain. When one server fractures his arm, DiSpirito forbids him to work the door, even though he desperately needs to make money. “I’m sorry you have a broken arm and everything,” DiSpirito tells him, “but restaurants are supposed to uplift people, make them feel good — not remind them of life’s tragedies.” He calls one server a “fuckup” to a table that has gone unfed for two hours.

Silverman is clear that Burnett’s actions fueled DiSpirito’s “giant mistrust of all the production team,” and “that mistrust fueled conflict between Rocco and Mark and Jamie.” Bruce rejects the word “torture,” but concedes that they would “throw wrenches” in the operation of the restaurant. “It wasn’t a restaurant,” he says. “It was aIn the second season, DiSpirito became deeply suspicious of not just the producers but also Chodorow, who wound up becoming a focus of the show.

, when a manager displeased DiSpirito by refusing to send a busboy up to his office with a bottle of water, DiSpirito screamed, “If you set foot in my restaurant again, you are a fucking dead man ... I am going to fucking kill you.”

 

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paigegeorgia5 Ex was on the show 🤭

Show did not make me a Rocco fan...kept his Nana, or mother, in the basement kitchen making meatballs while he played at not being a Chef, and not running a restaurant.

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