Fifteen is a restaurant in London, owned and run by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. He 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.
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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 entourage demanded a different menu because they were on the South Beach diet.
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