Serious Eats
Bad Review = Time to Fire The Chef?
Andrea Strong wonders in Time Out New York if firing a chef is the appropriate response to receiving a bad restaurant review: "Just tweaking the food with the same chef takes time, and it’s tough to get that sense of change out there," says Stephen Loffredo, who brought in a new chef after Jovia, his Upper East Side Italian restaurant, suffered negative press. "When you say you fired the chef or the chef has left, that’s great news, because the public hears there’s been a change and wants to go back, and the media writes about it."