For everyone who watched the Channel 4 documentary Big Chef Takes On Little Chef, during which Heston Blumenthal transformed Little Chef's menu, it was pretty clear that there wasn't much love lost between our favourite culinary wizard and the roadside restaurant chain's CEO Ian Pegler.
The Fat Duck's three-Michelin-starred chef patron's efforts weren't ever quite "blue-sky-thinking" enough for the Little Chef boss, who in the end was proved wrong when Heston's menu took the restaurant it was launched at by storm.
The menu, which includes dishes such as braised ox cheeks, coq au vin and Hereford steak and Abbot Ale pie, proved a big hit not just with food critics, but also with Little Chef's target market of truck drivers and travelling salesmen.
And so last week, Pegler announced that following the success of Heston's trial-menu at the restaurant in Popham, Hampshire, Little Chef had taken the decision roll it out at its 175 restaurants across the UK.
Good news all round then, right? Apparently not.
Despite the great success of the menu, Pegler clearly hasn't quite forgotten his differences with Heston, who has said that he was not consulted by Little Chef about the planned rollout.
At last night's Craft Guild of Chefs Awards, where he was honoured with the Special Award, Heston revealed he was "surprised" that Little Chef had announced plans to launch his menu nationwide without further discussions with him first.
Not quite what I'd call blue-sky-thinking...
Heston Blumenthal not consulted about Little Chef menu rollout
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