At best its ok and something you can have on in the background and not really pay attention to. Being a former chef, yes the kitchens are pretty much like how they show it, egos, aggression, swearing, pretentious little people thinking they're something they're not..... it's a dying career for sure. The storylines are pretty weak, but in a small establishment like that they are anyway.
The bit that I find annoying is the added on background noise which you either notice or you don't. It's a street vehicle noise, but it's the same looping, heavy bass lorry driving past noise. If you listen to films with earphones in then the noise is more noticeable then just watching it on the tv and sitting across from it as it's all in your ears. More or less every time they are in the restaurant it is present and also other locations. Because it's the same low bass driving past noise it is really noticeable, if you don't know what I'm on about, put in good quality earphones and listen. Personally find it annoying and unnecessary. Yes it'a supposed to be by a road, but no way does the same lorry drive past it over and over again day and night.
