Gordon Ramsey who has a signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London,
Brexit will shake Britain out of laziness, according to Gordon Ramsay, who believes an end to the “influx” of migrants will give homegrown talent a chance to shine.
While fellow celebrity chef Jamie Oliver campaigned for Remain and blamed the closure of six of his Italian restaurants on the uncertainty that followed the Brexit vote, Ramsay said it could have a positive effect on the restaurant industry.
A curb on EU migrant labour will create opportunities for British workers, he told Radio Times.
“That level of influx of multinational workers in this country has sort of confirmed how lazy as a nation we are - when individuals from across the seas are prepared to come and work twice as hard for less money,” he said.
“If anything, it’s a big kick up the a--- for the industry, and it’s going to get back to the modern-day apprenticeship. So not only do I welcome that kind of change, but I think it’s going to put a lot more emphasis on homegrown talent, which I think we need to do.”
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has tried to ease the torment over his friend’s cocaine-related death – by training the man’s son. Fourteen years ago, David Dempsey fell 40ft to his death after a bad reaction to drugs.
Ramsay, 50, whose younger brother Ronnie is a long-term heroin addict , admitted David’s death still haunts him, But it inspired the celebrity chef’s new documentary, Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine, which looks at the evils of the drug.
He said: “People think cocaine is glamorous – it’s not. It wrecks lives and the dark side of cocaine is not talked about.
“I’ve watched my brother’s drug addiction. I’ve lost a best mate to cocaine – my head chef.
“For me now, dealing with David Dempsey’s son and having him training under my tutelage and watching him grow, God if only his father was here to witness that. He’s missing out on a lot. That’s my responsibility. It didn’t have to happen. If only I’d spotted that. This guy was energetic, passionate...”
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Ramsay said: “I saw cocaine quite early on in my career. I’ve been served it. I’ve had my hand shaken and left with little wraps of foil in it.
“I’ve been asked to dust cocaine on top of soufflés, put it on as icing sugar…”
The last straw for Ramsay was at Christmas when a customer at one of his restaurants took a plate from a table, went to the bathroom, had a couple of lines and gave the plate to the waiter.
A shocked Ramsay decided to test the staff and customer toilets in his own restaurants by swabbing surfaces for cocaine residue. He found traces in every single place he owns apart from one.
He said: “It became my biggest nightmare. It wasn’t to pinpoint and sack them, it was to prevent another casualty.
“There’s a profile of chefs today who think it has a rock and roll status to the point that everyone wants to be a chef now. Everyone wants to write cook books and everyone wants a TV show.
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