Gareth Blackstock is a talented, arrogant and obsessed chef who has inventive insults for his staff, unknowing customers, and almost anyone else he encounters. The chef’s quest for perfection and his lack of awareness about the costs of that perfection mean that the restaurant is on the brink of financial collapse. The establishment mostly remains on that brink, despite Janice’s, (his wife), best efforts as manager, eventually coming under the control of the boorish Cyril Bryson.