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** Averted with Kate and Simone, who as manager and bartender are allowed to wear whatever they like.
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: Garth tips off a friend at the Canada Revenue Agency to send an auditor after Godiva's. Though the auditor himself is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, Kate is terrified that a stack of missing receipts is all that stands between her and a six-figure fine. [[spoiler:She's right.]]
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* GermanicEfficiency: Embodied by Mathilde Krauss, a dance company director for whom Jenna auditions [[spoiler:[[FailedAuditionPlot unsuccessfully]]]].

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* GermanicEfficiency: Embodied by Mathilde Krauss, Krause, a dance company director for whom Jenna auditions [[spoiler:[[FailedAuditionPlot unsuccessfully]]]].
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* ShipperOnDeck: Daisy and Martin are this for Cordell and Drew when they first begin dating.

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* TechnoBabble: A culinary version: Viewers will hear terms like "86" (to sell out of a menu item) and "four-top" (a table for four).



* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: Ramir is determined to feature high-end ingredients like wild boar, ostrich, and sea bream on the menu, costs be damned. He finally learns that Godiva's [[ImprobableFoodBudget cannot afford these items]] when Kate tells him that his ingredient bills make it impossible for her to give him a raise. She insists that he cook "good, cheap food that people want to eat," which results in even fewer customers coming in. [[spoiler:The two eventually strike a balance by rebranding the restaurant as a destination for local food.]]

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* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: Ramir is determined to feature high-end ingredients like wild boar, ostrich, and sea bream on the menu, costs (and customer appeal) be damned. He finally learns that Godiva's [[ImprobableFoodBudget cannot afford these items]] when Kate tells him that his ingredient bills make it impossible for her to give him a raise. She insists that he cook "good, cheap food that people want to eat," which results in even fewer customers coming in. [[spoiler:The two eventually strike a balance by rebranding the restaurant as a destination for local food.]]

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* BitCharacter: Jerome, who supplies many of the restaurant's ingredients.



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%%* * CausticCritic: Food critic Deanna Reisner slams Ramir's food early in the series, becoming TheDreaded when she returns to review his updated menu.
-->'''Ramir:''' Okay, team! Burn through these orders, pronto. I want all hands free for Deanna. ''(to Cordell)'' Push the pork medallions.\\
'''Cordell:''' No beef tenderloin this time? What was it she wrote again?\\
'''Martin and Stick:''' "I've had breakups more tender."
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%%* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: There's usually at least one sex scene per episode.



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%%* FoodPorn* FoodPorn: The show is full of lush descriptions and shots of the dishes being prepared.



* ImprobableFoodBudget: Averted: Ramir is determined to feature high-end ingredients like wild boar, ostrich, and sea bream on the menu, costs be damned. He finally learns that Godiva's cannot afford these items when Kate tells him that his ingredient bills make it impossible for her to give him a raise.


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* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: Ramir is determined to feature high-end ingredients like wild boar, ostrich, and sea bream on the menu, costs be damned. He finally learns that Godiva's [[ImprobableFoodBudget cannot afford these items]] when Kate tells him that his ingredient bills make it impossible for her to give him a raise. She insists that he cook "good, cheap food that people want to eat," which results in even fewer customers coming in. [[spoiler:The two eventually strike a balance by rebranding the restaurant as a destination for local food.]]
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* WeddingDay: Ramir and Rajni's lavish Indian wedding.
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[[caption-width-right:277:Ramir (Stephen Lobo) and Kate (Erin Karpluk)]]

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[[caption-width-right:277:Ramir (Stephen Lobo) (Creator/StephenLobo) and Kate (Erin Karpluk)]]
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* CarryingACake: A problem in the episode "Out the Door" when Daisy realizes that no door in the restaurant will accommodate the enormous wedding cake she baked for Ramir's wedding.
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* GermanicEfficiency: Embodied by Mathilde Krauss, a dance company director for whom Jenna auditions [[spoiler:[[FailedAuditionPlot unsuccessfully]].

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* GermanicEfficiency: Embodied by Mathilde Krauss, a dance company director for whom Jenna auditions [[spoiler:[[FailedAuditionPlot unsuccessfully]].unsuccessfully]]]].
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* GermanicEfficiency: Embodied by Mathilde Krauss, a dance company director for whom Jenna auditions [[spoiler:[[FailedAuditionPlot unsuccessfully]].

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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Simone exemplifies the world-weary, snarky bartender stereotype. Cordell is a flamboyant gay waiter, while the chef, Ramir, is suitably hot-headed.

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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Simone exemplifies the world-weary, snarky bartender stereotype. Cordell is a flamboyant gay waiter, while the chef, Ramir, is suitably hot-headed.ServiceSectorStereotypes:
** AngryChef: Ramir
** CampGay waiter: Cordell
** [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] [[TheBartender bartender]]: Simone
** WaitingForABreak: Jenna
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* VillainousGentrification: A major plotline in season 2 has Kate fending off property developer Garth Rutledge, who seeks to buy the block where Godiva's is located and turn it into a condo complex. Her warnings of CommunityThreateningConstruction to the block's other business owners fall on deaf ears, as [[EveryManHasHisPrice all of them have accepted Garth's buyouts]]. [[spoiler:Kate eventually prevails by making Godiva's profitable again, which renders Garth's plans impossible since he needed the entire block.]]

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* VillainousGentrification: A major plotline in season 2 has Kate fending off property developer Garth Rutledge, who seeks to buy the block where Godiva's is located and turn it into a condo complex. Her warnings of CommunityThreateningConstruction to the block's other business owners fall on deaf ears, as [[EveryManHasHisPrice all of them have accepted Garth's buyouts]].buyouts]]; even Godiva herself is willing to entertain his offer. [[spoiler:Kate eventually prevails by making Godiva's profitable again, which renders Garth's plans impossible since he needed the entire block.]]
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* VillainousGentrification: A major plotline in season 2 has Kate fending off property developer Garth Rutledge, who seeks to buy the block where Godiva's is located and turn it into a condo complex. Her warnings of CommunityThreateningConstruction to the block's other business owners fall on deaf ears, as [[EveryManHasHisPrice all of them have accepted Garth's buyouts]]. [[spoiler:Kate eventually prevails by making Godiva's profitable again, which renders Garth's plans impossible since he needed the entire block.]]

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Ramir and Kate.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Ramir and Kate.DancingTheme



* FriendsWithBenefits: How Ramir sees his relationship with Jenna.



* LipstickLesbian: Rajni.



* RunawayGroom: Ramir.
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* ImprobableFoodBudget: Averted: Ramir is determined to feature high-end ingredients like wild boar, ostrich, and sea bream on the menu, costs be damned. He finally learns that Godiva's cannot afford these items when Kate tells him that his ingredient bills make it impossible for her to give him a raise.
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* DressCodedForYourConvenience: At work, all the kitchen staff wear chef's whites while the waitstaff wear black. {{Subverted}} in that we are not meant to side with one group over the other, as is typically the case with this trope; this is simply how they are expected to dress.
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** TheChick/TheHeart: Daisy

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** TheChick/TheHeart: TheChick: Daisy

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* FiveTokenBand: a fairly benign example, though, and understandable - white Kate (etc. - TJ, Leah...), Indians Ramir and Rajni, Hispanic Simone

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* FiveTokenBand: a fairly benign example, though, and understandable - white Kate (etc. - TJ, Leah...), Indians Ramir and Rajni, Hispanic SimoneFiveManBand: The kitchen staff:
** TheLeader: Ramir
** TheLancer: Martin
** TheSmartGuy: Victor
** TheBigGuy: Stick
** TheChick/TheHeart: Daisy

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** Ramir appears on the City TV program ''City Cooks''.



** Ramir appears on the City TV program "City Cooks."
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** Major Canadian brands highlighted in the show include Aritzia, Lavalife, and ==WestJet==.

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** Major Canadian brands highlighted in the show include Aritzia, Lavalife, and ==WestJet==.Westjet.
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** Major Canadian brands highlighted in the show include Aritzia, Lavalife, and WestJet.

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** Major Canadian brands highlighted in the show include Aritzia, Lavalife, and WestJet.==WestJet==.
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* ProductPlacement:
** Major Canadian brands highlighted in the show include Aritzia, Lavalife, and WestJet.
** Ramir often compares his menu to that of upscale Vancouver restaurant West.
** Kate mentions having worked at Canoe and Scaramouche, both extremely popular real-life Toronto restaurants.
** Food critic Deanna Reisner writes for the ''Georgia Straight'' followed by the ''Vancouver Sun''.
** The show mentions Canadian celebrity chef Rob Feenie several times.
** Ramir appears on the City TV program "City Cooks."
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''Godiva's'' is a [[CanadianSeries Canadian comedy-drama series]] that ran for two seasons (2005-2006). The [[ThePlace title]] comes from the fictional {{Vancouver}} restaurant where the show is set.

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''Godiva's'' is a [[CanadianSeries Canadian comedy-drama series]] that ran for two seasons (2005-2006). The [[ThePlace title]] comes from the fictional {{Vancouver}} UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} restaurant where the show is set.

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* HookersAndBlow: The original head chef of Godiva's dies of a cocaine overdose in the first episode.

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* HookersAndBlow: The original head chef of Godiva's dies of a cocaine overdose [[PlotTriggeringDeath in the first episode.episode]].


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* WelcomeEpisode: The first episode is this for Kate.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Ramir and Kate.
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* FiveTokenBand: a fairly benign example, though, and understandable - white Kate (etc. - TJ, Leah...), Indians Ramir and Rajni, Hispanic Simone
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* {{Asexuality}}: Martin barely shows any interest in women or sex, leading him to identify as asexual and form a platonic relationship with an asexual woman named Jane. However, it turns out that he just has low testosterone levels, and after starting hormone therapy he develops a libido. This causes his relationship with Jane to fail miserably.
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* EnsembleCast: There are ten main characters, and all of them get their own story arcs and lots of screen time. However, Kate and Ramir are a ''little'' bit more prominent due to their leadership roles.
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* LipstickLesbian: Rajni.

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