Masterchef (TV Series)

The Top 6 (2012)

Joe Bastianich: Self - Judge

Quotes 

• Joe Bastianich - Judge : [Explaining to the blue team why they lost the restaurant takeover challenge]  Let me tell you in on a little secret about the restaurant world: it is a balance between the back the house and the front of the house. Rule number one: don't make the customers wait. When they get hungry, they get angry and when they get angry they don't enjoy their food. There's only so many mistakes I can cover up, only so many excuses I can make, and so many glasses of wine I can pour and ask people to stay, so you blew it.

• Self - Host : [Referring to Christine, to Joe and Graham]  where would you put her? In a situation like this?

  Self - Judge : I would have her at the end finishing a dish

  Joe Bastianich - Judge : Definitely coat check room

  Self - Host : No, come on

  Self - Judge : [Referring to her disability]  she can't see damn it

  Self - Host : Have you seen how she puts food on a plate?

  Joe Bastianich - Judge : Yeah but this is a live kitchen: Michelin star restaurant, she can't do it. She's a liability