The indebted chef goes under

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Via Domainfax:

Jamie Oliver’s dream of buying back the farm in Australia is over.

The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group (Australia) Pty Ltd collapsed on Monday, with the company being placed in the hands of voluntary administrators less than 12 months after the British celebrity chef visited Australia to relaunch the six local restaurants bearing his name.

…The collapse comes just weeks after the depth of The Naked Chef’s global financial woes emerged. Oliver’s businesses have been struggling to restructure their way out of debts of £71.5 million ($126 million).

You can’t eat debt.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.