It's been a tough week for Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana after the News of the World published a story accusing the multi-Michelin-starred celebrity chef of a seven-year extra-marital affair last weekend.
The news has been all over the media this week with the Ramsay's and Gordon's alleged mistress' faces pretty much everywhere you look.
But the coverage hasn't just been the tabloids trying to unveil saucy details about the suspected affair and a lot has been written about how much damage the scandal will do to the Ramsay brand, which Gordon, father-in-law Chris Hutcheson and indeed Tana have worked so hard to build up.
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Independent as well as business journal Real Business all question the impact the alleged liaison will have on Ramsay's restaurant empire, while in contrast the Liverpool Echo says that affairs don't have to mean the end of a business.
Meanwhile the Evening Standard argues that the only person to fix the aftermath of the scandal is Hutcheson, CEO of Gordon Ramsay Holdings.
Kitchen Rat's guess is that as long as Gordon and Tana stay together, as they have vowed they would, implications for the restaurant business will be marginal. After all, people dining at Ramsay's restaurants are there for the food not the moral high ground.
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