You’re Fired! THE APPRENTICE week 2

Week 2 finds the boys against the girls again. This week they have to set up their own catering business. Both teams have to make sandwiches for people in suits to have for lunch, and then host an evening function for up to 50 other people in suits.

Rocky the young guy is team leader for the boys. Apparently he runs fifteen sandwich shops. This should be a breeze for him.

Yasmina takes over the girls team. Word has it she runs ‘an award winning’ restaurant.

The girls quickly come up with a theme; Mediterranean (wow how original)! The boys decide on London 2012 as their theme, WtF? They want to sell, The Olympic Lunch. I think one of them might have been to Little Chef recently where they sell and Olympic Breakfast.

The boys get off to a bad start. They can’t find any offices willing to have them supply sandwiches to their staff. The girls on the other hand easily find some business.

The boys do manage to find a client for their evening buffet. They end up looking like morons in the process. They initially ask for £60/head for a canape selection. Their client laughs and the boys finally end the bidding at £15 per head. In the process they look like the amateur’s that they are.

The girls also find a client for their evening buffet. They too look a bit silly during the sales pitch;

The chicken … it MIGHT be grilled. And that other one is either a hot or a cold canape, yes. And can we do blinis? I’ve HEARD of blinis, and I should think with our experience and ability we can certainly provide those. Either hot or maybe cold, I’ll look into that.

Day 2 begins and it is time for work. The boys split into two team. One team to make and sell the sandwiches (on the street) and the other team to organise the evening. The boys sandwiches look like shit. Strangely though people buy them.

The girls go to the offices they have arranged sandwiches for. People are not impressed with their sandwiches (or lack of sandwiches). At least one customer did get a bonus hair in one

Preparations for the evening are not going much better. Even Philip knows it, and he gives us the quote of the evening;

The menu’s shit, the outfits are shit, it’s all shit: I’m TRYING to stay positive …

The girls food preparation is not going much better. It still looks better than the boys does though, and the girls and not too bothered;

well after a glass or two of wine they’ll not notice, will they?

Crunch time. The boys have created a terrible looking ‘Greek Olympic’ room (what happened to London 2012?) and they look like idiots in togas. The girls food looks terrible as well;

like something that came from a funeral at a working mans club

At least the girls venue looks better than the boys. Sadly for the boys and girls their food is crap, and both sets of clients are not happy. I still think the girls did a bit better than the boys. At least they looked professional.

Day 3 and back to the board room to meet with Sir Alan. The girls made a 651.43 profit. Pretty good. The boys made a loss of £160.76… Alan is not impressed!

So the girls are immune to getting fired, and as a treat they get to go and learn to play the posh sport of polo. The boys stay behind… one of them is going to get fired. Rocky the team leader has to choose the two weak links in the team. He chooses the irritating James, and Howard. Howard looks like he is about to cry.

The usual backstabbing and bickering takes place, but in the end it is Rocky who gets fired.

I feel a bit sorry for him. I was hoping James would get the bullet… and a glimpse back to the Penthouse shows us the others were hoping James would get fired as well.

Maybe next week!