{"id":30546,"date":"2025-09-19T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:40:07","slug":"jamie-oliver-says-his-restaurant-empire-went-bankrupt-as-he-was-conceptually-thick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30546\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver says his restaurant empire went bankrupt as he was \u2018conceptually thick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen you hit your foot, when you get a splinter, when you get a burn \u2026 if you didn\u2019t have that, you\u2019d be dead 30 years ago. So I think it\u2019s a real true gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Jamie\u2019s restaurant group<\/a> \u2013 which also included Barbecoa \u2013 went bankrupt in 2019, 1000 jobs were lost, and 22 of his 25 eateries closed.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the bankruptcy, Oliver \u2013 who is dyslexic \u2013 said that \u201cpain and failure is all part of really shaping your peripheral vision and your senses\u201d.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI think, whatever it is that you\u2019re trying to do, you might not have failed because you were wrong, sometimes I\u2019ve failed because I was too early and people weren\u2019t ready. Sometimes I\u2019ve failed because I was too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I\u2019ve failed and I got all the hard bits right and I got the basics wrong because I spent a lifetime refusing to accept any responsibility around numbers and maths \u2013 which goes back to school, it\u2019s my issue not the school\u2019s issue \u2013 you know I was in the worst group for maths, I didn\u2019t pass maths at school.<\/p>\n

\u201cConceptually within that, yeah I\u2019m thick. I have a negative view of myself when it comes to maths.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I lost my restaurants, you know, all the hard stuff we got right \u2013 all the stuff that most people struggle getting right, we got right, we were really good at the hard stuff \u2013 and like, it was really the basics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen you hit your foot, when you get a splinter, when you get a burn \u2026 if you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[806,6124,29452,17517,29385,29450,14058,156,692,293,9519,111,139,69,29449,2539,9979,312,29451,8238,6736,2201],"class_list":["post-30546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-as","tag-bankrupt","tag-basics","tag-because","tag-believes","tag-conceptually","tag-empire","tag-entertainment","tag-he","tag-his","tag-jamie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oliver","tag-restaurant","tag-right","tag-says","tag-thick","tag-under","tag-was","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}