So on tonight’s Apprentice, Sir Alan set the teams a catering challenge. The candidates had to cater lunch and dinner for city slicker business folk and the team which makes the most money wins.

The boys opted to run with an international Olympic theme providing chicken tikka as an Asian option, flying the flag for Europe a ploughmans sandwich, out of Africa with a cous cous salad and representing the USA, peanut butter sarnies. The girls decided that cheap was the theme of the day so they headed to Asda and bought bag loads of value frozen chicken and 30p tins of tuna, always a good choice for a quality catering experience.

First signs were good for the girls as they landed a lucrative lunch contract whilst the boys ended up hawking their wares around the streets of London. However as the ladies started serving up chicken wraps with no chicken and salads that consisted of nothing but iceberg lettuce leaves their chances of winning started swirling down the toilet.

Dinner time rolled around quickly and the girls canapés were the size of doorsteps. Paula Jones proved very astute when she likened their food to a spread you would find for a funeral at a working mens club. She also pointed out that they were buggered if their clients didn’t like tomatoes, given that they were the main ingredient of every dish.

The boys togas put many a young lady off her food and its not as if the thought of ice cold chicken tikka vol-au-vents was that appealing anyway. Tellingly the only dish their clients cleaned them out of, were their cheddar and pickle on sticks, its not like even they could get that wrong.

In the end the girls won after making a profit of £651, the boys went on to make a £100 loss! In my opinion the boys lost out because of lack of business, planning and negotiation skills. They failed to secure a lunchtime contract and messed up when setting a price for their evening event. Their food seemed to be of a far higher standard than the girls but in the end Sir Alan isn’t looking for a chef.