Why did Jamie Oliver's restaurants fail? Was the food really that bad?

Confession; my son worked in ‘Jamie Oliver’s Italian’ for some years. So I’m not unbiased. When they first opened, the food was excellent quality and interesting. JO sourced a lot of it directl…

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