What was the point in having katie on the show then?
DamienS
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Why waste 10 weeks of her life when the business would never work.
This is why the new format annoys me.
This is why the new format annoys me.
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DamienS
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It was ridiculous. Did they not review the plans at the beginning.
Clearly they put candidates in that are not eligible to win regardless of how they perform.
The show doesn't really know what it's about anymore.
I'm not sure why they got rid of the original prize of being employed by AS. I thought it was because a few winners had complained they were given total non-jobs, but others have told me it was only Stella who claimed this. So what was the reason for the change?
A few of them complained of being made public faces of elements of the company rather than being given actual roles.
Stella sued alleging that the role was not as advertised. She lost the case. Yasmina left after one year. Lee left after two and a half years. Simon worked there for three years. Michelle left before the end of the first year. Tim left within two years.
I think the issue is that Sugar doesn't really have that big of a business empire to be giving out roles in nowadays. He sold most of it years ago.
Then you pick out the ones with workable business plans and put them forward into the 10 week process.
That is crux of it. If Alan Sugar was replaced by say Richard Branson then it could revert to original concept.
The business could work. As she said, she wouldn't cook the food, or develop it, and she wouldn't be selling cream trifles. She just needed to employ a chef and nutritionist to develop a menu. Cost doesn't usually matter in tasks so why mention it this time- when it was claear that all ingredients could be changed anyway.
The it won't scale up argument is nonsense too. If it works in one place, it could work in another. Just as Francesca could always set up another dance club.
His problem was he wants more quick money - hecause he's greedy and would rather make thousands from silly people doing expensive things like injecting botox in themselves than from people eating healthy food. for a tenner.
His hidden issue is Sunderland. Its difficult to see him on a train to see his restaurant And it may be no coincidence that he's never taken any interest in any project based more than an hour away from London. Scots, Welsh and northerners may be wasting their time.
I liked her too. It was nice to see someone who wasn't your typical metropolitan sales executive.
There's no reason why a single restaurant can't become an international chain - other have done it (though not starting in Sunderland!) - but it's not a business that I could see LS being interested in. She should have stuck with something involving fitness.
Michelle got a project that she found was economically unviable. She then says she had nothing to do, and then had a miscarriage. By series 3, the job determined the winner - expensive property matched Simon, and Lee matched selling to underground bosses. The highest flyers in series 5 and 6 were let go - probably because the job was too dull for them. and then Stella got it - and claimed she basically had nothing to do.
You are right, its not clear what its about. It seems to be about selecting who offers the quickest biggest bucks, or who is left with any decent proposal. Its not about who does best on task. its not about finding the small entrepreneur and scaling their efforts up either. The people with the best business sense haven't won for years either, and the people with most raw skill have been sent home - as they don't have the scale or experience he wants.
Its basically a case of don't be a trader, instructor, restaurant owner or cleaning company owner, but don't be a corporate highflyer either.You may win if you have a nailfile, botox needle, or something when nothing else is on offer.
But he doesn't do that. He's failed Katie on her business proposal. But kept Bianca and Solomon for much weaker records. And kept Daniel and Mark on terrible records - probably for exciting interview departures.
Before, there was a pretense that all the tasks could act as an extended job interview - but right now the tasks are effectively fun days out and nothing more.
Those who have the best business plans (and are terrible at 90% of the tasks) simply have their bad stuff edited out during the tasks. But I'm pretty sure the winner is probably decided before the first episode. Or at least the most likely winner.
The person who is most likely to make Lord Sugar the most money could spend the 10 tasks jumping around doing nothing but chicken impressions and they'd still make it to the final.
It's a shame in a way. The show's definitely lost something because of it.
Of the candidates that are remaining, I think we only know about one candidates business plan, Roisin's, which is ready-meals. Will Sugar go for that? Unlikely I think. He's more likely to invest in someone who has a more original and dynamic plan involving new technology, so perhaps Mark or Solomon's, from what we have been led to understand so far. As for Daniel and Bianca, I don't think we have been given any hints as to what they want the investment for, so it wil be interesting to see what that is next week!
Exactly, shows how daft this new setup is, not alone wasting Katie's time but everyones including the viewers .
Sugar may just as well look at all their business plans at the beginning, interview them and pick the one he likes best , because thats what it comes down to in the end .
But a healthy product would need research and expertise. In the real world , she would hire a nutritionist and a chef to work up a menu. She can't just go and invent a calorie light food.- she couldn't even claim it was low calorie without scientific proof. She might have brought a specimen recipe in with her, but she couldn't know he would want one for a rich pudding.
Its a bizarre task - because he rejects her on wanting to be too small scale, but the task requires her to be her own chef, nutritionist and food taster. She's not pretending to be a chef herself - she just wants to own a restaurant.
Its also a poorly thought out task again. Costs were raised as an a issue - as was taste. But the buyers said they would need to adjust everyone's food - so neither taste or cost mattered. In Katie's case it was a simple matter of taking out the saffron- yet she was attacked on costs and taste.
It was probably a bit of a mistake focusing on their plans so much, this week, because he really did ignore the task in that last boardroom, but it usually seems like a clear and fair format. Even as someone who kind of wanted Katie to win this, I don't get everyone's problem.
Not only from a cost perspective. Saffron does not go with jelly and custard. It's a pretty daft mistake, regardless of how good she has been on other tasks. It's a pretty good example of how to commit suicide in the process.