What I watched last night

Having worked as a waitress while at Uni I can sympathise with the trainees taking part in BBC2's Michel Roux's Service, which sees a group of jobless teenagers taught how to serve guests in Michellin starred restaurants.

However, unlike my pub restaurant job, its all work and no play for the recruits, who in last night's episode proved they were completely out of their depth having failed the basics. Their misdemeanours included serving cold food to customers, making diners wait 30 mins for tables to be cleared, and swearing and arguing at each other in the middle of service. Perhaps it was too early to let them loose on real customers at a branch of Italian restaurant Zizzi's, after all they only had a couple of days training and we are talking about a group of clueless teenagers.

They certainly have a lot to learn if two of them at the end of eight part series are to be awarded a scholarship to study at the Academy of Food and Wine.

Wednesday's 8pm BBC2.