I enjoy food show such as Ugly Delicious, etc. I binged this series a couple of years ago and recently binged the second season. I agree with some of the other reviews take that 1) the lack of investment was frustrating; and 2) that the investors who did invest often made the "wrong" choice (to my mind at least). Oh well... "whatever."
After suffering through his banality for two seasons however, I felt compelled to write this review to call out Collins in particular for his thoroughly transparent disingenuousness. Time and again it's clear that he has no interest in investing in anyone. Rather, his primary interest seems to "peep folks' game" in hopes of ripping off their ideas to implement in his own joints.
Two glaring examples arise within the first few episodes of season one. The young cat from Trap Kitchen had a huge IG following from word of mouth, neighborhood love, street cred and cooking in his Mama's flat. Collins was like Snidely Whiplash constantly asking about "How'd you get so many IG followers"? "Tell me the secret sauce of getting more social media love". I half expected him to say: "Hey man, I'm not going to help you but would you mind helping me to steal some of yours"? 😂
I sensed a similar vibe from him with respect to the (again) rather young and naive Shrimpwreck guy. You could practically see the cartoon balloon over Collins' head thinking "Hmm... I'll ask this sucker kid about his supply chain, costs, etc. and add his two signature sandwiches to my own burger joints. Lame.
