Fifteen restaurants
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Fifteen is the name of several restaurants created by the English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
The original Fifteen is in Hoxton, London. Oliver created the restaurant as part of a 2002 TV series, Jamie's Kitchen, broadcast on Channel 4. Jamie Oliver recruited fifteen unemployed young people, some homeless and others with learning difficulties, and trained them from scratch to become professional-standard chefs. This continued after the TV series finished, and the restaurant has become a resounding success. Many of its graduates have moved on to other top restaurants in London.
Fifteen was also featured in the follow-up series, Return to Jamie's Kitchen and provided a backdrop to the 2005 series Jamie's School Dinners. The restaurant is a charitable foundation, with all profits generated spent on training its recruits.
In 2004, Fifteen Amsterdam opened in The Netherlands. In May 2006, Fifteen Cornwall opened in Newquay and Fifteen Melbourne, Australia opened in September 2006.
[edit] Trivia
Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, visited for a meal during the filming of Jamie's School Dinners; Jamie Oliver refused to meet him after Clinton's minders requested other diners be removed to accommodate Clinton's oversized group (10 larger than agreed) and demanded a different menu (from that pre-agreed) because they were on the South Beach diet. (source Jamie interviewed on Enough Rope - 18th Sept 2006)
