While this season showcases more Chicago restaurants, not everyone is thrilled with the antics of Carmy and company. (via eaterchicago)
). He feels restaurants need to evolve to survive. He tells Eater he wasn’t trying to provoke a reaction with his comments about the TV show, which just released its second season.
“No! I am trying to point out that how we portray the restaurant business in pop culture is important,” Bayless writes. “Trying to convince people that our profession is not only a viable but positive choice is hard to do when pop culture portrayals and new media coverage only focus on exaggerated negatives.”
The chef says he’s seen most of the first season and he doesn’t have faith that the show will redeem itself in his eyes: “The opening was so ugly that I think it did permanent damage.” He adds: “Everyone, including me, thinks it’s great TV. There is no arguing that. But I’m looking out for the future of our industry. With all the negativity about our industry in the press, with restaurant jobs being the butt of late-night TV jokes, with so many television shows portraying restaurants as terrible work environments — we have a long path to having restaurants be a respectable career.
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