THE Hidden World of Hospitality aired its second episode last night, but viewers weren’t impressed with the celebrity’s chef’s comments about the cost-of-living crisis.
In his new 8-part BBC series, Tom Kerridge “lifts the lid on the industry he knows and loves – meeting the skilled and passionate professionals taking risks to reach the top of their game.” And, while he usually travels and mentors chefs around the UK, he took a trip back to Manchester to tell a personal story.
On Thursday night’s episode of The Hidden World of Hospitality with Tom Kerridge, the celebrity chef met with Gary Neville to discuss the reason he couldn’t keep the doors open at his famous Bull and Bear restaurant in Gary’s Stock Exchange Hotel, which opened in 2019.
The restaurant closed back in December, not because of a falling out between Tom, 50, and Gary, 48, but because of the cost-of-living crisis cutting into profits.
The retired footballer-turned-hotelier agreed, adding: “The cost of living, energy, resources, the fall-out of the last few years of Brexit and Covid, it’s real in this industry, it’s massive.”