No regrets for Restaurant Revolution sisters
They might have walked away empty-handed but Nicole and Carmen Watts do not regret signing up for Seven’s ill-fated Restaurant Revolution.
The Geraldton-raised sisters were part of five teams from around the country to set up pop-up eateries in sea containers, with the most profitable winning a grand prize of $200,000.
The WA pair came second last when the series, which had been reduced from four nights a week to one because of poor ratings, finally ended last night with Adelaide siblings David, Reine, Anthony and Asa Donehue victorious.
“Quite early on we realised our chances of winning were quite slim so we just hoped we wouldn’t come last. But if you are not first in this show, you are last because no one won anything by coming second,” Carmen toldAAA .
The sisters found it a difficult juggling act to run a pop-up restaurant and handle the production side of being on a reality show.
“You have to be very resilient to do a reality TV show,” Carmen said. “At the end of the day, you do become a prop in the show and you are still a human and you need to worry about your own wellbeing.”
They also struggled to keep up their cheery dispositions with customers while reading negative online comments written about how they were being portrayed on the show.
“People were judging the s... out of us. As young girls you do get stereotyped pretty hard,” Nicole said.
Carmed added: “We got slammed for having no experience but we had no idea that we were going to be the only ones on the show without experience.”
Despite no job offers in the food or media industry, the pair, who are yet to return to their old jobs, would do it again.
“We didn’t expect to be famous or anything like that,” Carmen said. “We are not scorned by the show. We had a really fun experience and I would do it again.”
Source: The West Australian, Ross McRae, 11th September 2015
Originally published as: No regrets for Restaurant Revolution sisters
