The general manager, a British expat named Martin Hyde, famously described the establishment's culinary concept as an "American-Irish restaurant with an Indian flare" . This bizarre mashup meant the menu was flooded with conflicting cuisines that none of the kitchen staff knew how to execute properly. Compounding the problem was a top-heavy leadership structure: there were three different managers on payroll (Martin, Andrew, and Khan), but none of them actually managed or communicated with the kitchen.
The restaurant was located in the heart of Manhattan's bustling theater district, just steps away from Gordon Ramsay's own upscale flagship restaurant. Owned by a man named Mohammad Islam who was hemorrhaging between $20,000 to $50,000 a month, the establishment was plagued by a massive identity crisis. [S1E2] Dillons
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