Location: Harrison, New Jersey
The family-run business is caught in a power struggle between its two co-owners, brothers Michael and Jerry.
Tropes
- Homage: Gordon points out the lobsters in the tank from which he is expected to make his dinner selection have something wrong with them. One is suspiciously immobile and static at the bottom of the tank. Gordon voices a professional opinion to the effect that it just perhaps might be dead. Without missing a beat, the maitre d replies "No, it's just sleeping.'' There follows a terse discourse on how to identify a dead lobster. Gordon does refrain from commenting that it would remain dead even if you put five million volts through it, and somehow manages to avoid referring to ex-lobsters or "pining for the [ocean]", but you can feel it hovering, unsaid, in the air.
