- Title: Big Chef Takes On Little Chef
- Date: 1st January 1970
- Description:**WINNER TWOFOUR BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY,BROADCAST AWARDS 2010** Big Chef Takes on Little Chef,showed on consecutive evenings and proved to be a big hit. The audience grew steadily,starting with 3.2m for the first episode,rising to 3.7m for the second and pulling in an average of 3.9 million for the final episode. The audience share for the final episode represented 16.9%. The fourth episode,which will return to Little Chef to see if Heston's experiment has been successful and can rolled out across the whole chain,will screen in April 2009. Big Chef Takes on Little Chef is an ambitious 4 x 60 series that sees Heston Blumenthal take his revolutionary culinary and ingenious techniques into the world of the most conventional yet iconic of British brands. Little Chef is a British institution. The childhood memories of countless Brits are etched with images of Olympic breakfasts,Jubilee Pancakes and of course Fat Charlie. In 2007,Little Chef was saved from financial collapse by venture capitalists. Now in its 50th anniversary year,the home of the Olympic breakfast and Jubilee pancake is still in need of creative inspiration. Enter British Chef Heston Blumenthal. The nostalgia of the Little Chef brand is a strong childhood memory for this chef but he will have to work his magic if he is to restore it to former glories. Can a top chef with a reputation for excellence,gastronomic innovation and and#163;200 meals turn around the fortunes of a fast food chain with 187 outlets. Armed with a budget of and#163;350,000,Heston is given his very own Little Chef restaurant,complete with staff. It is his job to come up with a new menu,new restaurant design and find a way of training the staff to his exacting standards. Along the way,Heston reports back to the Little Chef board. And it's spatulas at dawn as the clash between low and high culinary culture begins. Big Chef Takes On Little Chef is the most extraordinary of culinary challenges and#8211; can a chef with a reputation for excellence and innovation transform the fortunes of a much loved but tired British institution?
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Music
- Producer:Two Four Broadcast Ltd.
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1970s