Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay sends a chef to help a middle school cafeteria kitchen when a staff shortage left a lone cook to prepare hundreds of student meals on her own. Ramsay was being interviewed live on BBC radio last week when the station received a call from an exasperated school employee.
Tina Clarke, the kitchen manager at Edward Peake Middle School in Biggleswade, UK, was left to prepare lunch for hundreds of the school’s students by herself when two of her employees were out sick. "I'm cooking here on my own. I'm working here in a school kitchen, and my chef has gone off sick. I've got another one off with COVID and just wondered if Gordon would help me today, give me a hand after his interview?" Clarke asks Ramsey half-joking.
Ramsay, who’s best known for his rude style on shows like “Hell's Kitchen” and “MasterChef,” said he wasn’t available, but offered to send someone to help. Within hours chef Rob Roy Cameron from Ramsay’s Lucky Cat restaurant in London arrived at the school to help Clarke, who immediately put the distinguished chef to work. The school later tweeted their thanks to Ramsay and Cameron for their help, and Clarke left a voicemail for Ramsay thanking him, which BBC Radio played on air the next day. So maybe Ramsay’s not really the tyrant he plays on TV after all.
Source: NPR