More shenanigans from the aspiring apprentices this week saw them running a lunchtime and evening food service in a London pub for the day.
Lucinda's outfits are becoming a weekly highlight for me, but for all the wrong reasons and in the opening scenes of last night's show, she didn't disappoint, sporting her trademark beret (mauve this time) and partially striped knee-length dress, rounded off with a green shawl... Where are Trinny and Suzannah when you need them, eh?
Sir Alan chose Ian Stringer to lead the boys team. I'm sure he was keen to see how he would perform given his pre-match talk:
"There are two kinds of people in this world. Winners and... I don't know how to spell the other word... I can't say it... I'll give a clue, it begins with L."
Careful, Ian, that sort of talk can come back and bite you.
Sara Dhada, who is apparently an international car trader (although I have no idea what this actually means), was chosen to head up the girls team and almost immediately began talking incessantly - How annoying...
The girls hosted a Bollywood themed day, blagging costumes and marketing for free and very shrewdly selling tickets for £5 each - to be taken off the food bill later - Very smart, whoever thought of that! Unfortunately, none of them were able to cook curry so they completely missed the lunchtime service whilst faffing around for 5 hours with a chicken korma.
The boys, meanwhile, went for an Italian theme and spent bucket loads of cash on marketing and ingredients, buying many jars of Dolmio and rank-looking pizza bases from a local supermarket. The only thing to really amuse me about their efforts was the following outburst from Raef:
"We should all feign Italian accents for the evening, all feign Italian accents, write that down."
Comic genius!
We got a good look at Kevin Shaw in this episode. Is it just me or does anyone else think that his manner, speech and looks resemble Matt Lucas, somewhat. In fact, I can almost see him in a Little Britain sketch in my mind's eye... Ian made a terrible call half way through the evening service to save on ingredients and halve the pizzas. There is a cringeworthy moment when poor Michael is asked by a customer 'Erm... Is this... a whole pizza?' He is forced to confirm that it is a good spot, it is indeed half a pizza...
The boys lost heavily, purely due to overspend. Ian was a lamb to slaughter in the boardroom and rightly so. He took few decisions and failed on basic costing, which was key to the task.
I'm holding my finger and thumb against my forehead in a kind of 'L' shape - Get it, Ian?