Louie Cordio

 

“

HE CAN KISS! MY! FUCKING! ASS!

”

Hometown/Residence	Fitchburg, MA
Occupation	Diner Owner
Kitchen Experience	30 years
Culinary Education	On-the-job training
Culinary Inspiration	Gordon Ramsay
Statistics
Signature Dish Challenge Score	0 out of 1
Challenges Won	1
Services Won	0
Times as BoW/Announcer	0
Times Nominated	0
Placement	17th
Episode Eliminated/Withdrew	16 Chefs Compete

David "Louie" Cordio was a contestant on Season 6 of Hell's Kitchen. He ranked in 17th place.

Season 6

Episode 1

Main article: Episode 601 - 16 Chefs Compete

When he came down from the Hell's Kitchen bus, Louie declared he was ready to do a backflip. After receiving some tips from Jean-Philippe and former Hell's Kitchen contestants, Ramsay ordered all the chefs to cook their signature dishes.

Before tasting the signature dishes, Ramsay announced that for the first time ever, the Signature Dish Challenge would occur as a regular team challenge, with each contestant going head-to-head. Louie was the second person of the blue team to have his dish judged and went up against Tek. He served sausage gravy over biscuits and told Ramsay it was a dish he was serving at his diner, for $4.75 with coffee. When Ramsay tasted it, he spat it out immediately claiming it was tasting like gunk. He was insulted, not thinking his dish was worth spitting out as hundreds of people were eating it every week at his diner. He lost the round to Tek, but despite that, his team won the challenge 3-2.

The blue team was rewarded with a dinner on the Hell's Kitchen patio, where they would eat dishes from Ramsay's London West Hollywood, in Los Angeles. When Louie learned the red team's punishment, which was cleaning both kitchens, he made a sexist comment by saying that women were better at cleaning than men and that it should be right up their alley. During the reward, he made a big splash in the hot tub and continued to drink champagne with his team. The next morning, because the blue team drank too much and not studied the menu, they were slow to do their prep.

During dinner service, Louie was on the meat station. When his team moved on to entrées, he was caught putting raw lamb in the oven without seasoning or searing it off first, annoying Ramsay. Ramsay told him why he should sear lamb, which was to give color and improve the flavor. So, his whole team rallied behind him on the meat station. An hour into service, the blue team has served eight tables of appetizers, but he was caught doing some of Joseph's job by cooking spinach. When Ramsay asked him, he answered that he thought he should put all the dishes together. Then, Ramsay told him to not touch the spinach as they already got enough problems cooking lamb. Moments later, he finally managed to send up his lamb to the pass, but Ramsay schooled him on not cutting it properly, with one piece being butchered, even asking if he bit it. Then, Ramsay discovered a huge pile of wasted lamb on the meat station, and angrily tossed all of it on the station, asking what he was doing, and finally eliminating him on-the-spot. He went back to the dorms and packed his bags, before telling Ramsay to kiss his fucking ass and leaving by the delivery dock.

Ramsay gave no comment on Louie's elimination, and he did not receive the coat hanging and burning picture sequence.

Nomination History

Week 1	Ejected

Post Hell's Kitchen

• After his appearance on the show, he returned to his diner, the 50/50, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Trivia

• At age 45, he is the oldest of the season.
• He is the fourth contestant to be eliminated mid-service, following Josh (Season 3), J and Lacey (both from Season 5) and the only one to be ejected on opening night.
• He is the second contestant who was eliminated mid-service while on the meat station, following Lacey (Season 5).
• He is the first contestant ever who was responsible for the fastest exit in the history of the show that isn't due to an illness or other health reasons. It was later surpassed by Kenneth (Season 19), due to the latter being eliminated in a challenge before opening night service.
• He is the only contestant to be eliminated mid-service on opening night.
• He is the third consecutive male contestant who was eliminated on opening night, following Dominic (Season 4) and Wil (Season 5). He is also the first contestant ever to get eliminated on opening night in an unusual way.
• He is the only contestant to this date to get eliminated before the season's first elimination ceremony.
• He is the only contestant to this date who was eliminated on opening night that did not receive the coat hanging and burning picture sequence (Carolann from Season 1 doesn’t count as they did not introduce that aspect until Season 2).
• He is the first contestant to rank last in his season without ever being nominated for elimination.
• He is the second contestant, and the first one to be eliminated, who never lost a dinner service during his time in the competition, following Larry (Season 2).
• He is the first mid-service ejected contestant ever that has never been nominated for elimination.
• He is also the only mid-service ejected contestant to have never lost a challenge.
• He is the first contestant whose photo was never seen before burnt.
• He is the only contestant in the history of the show to rank 17th place (originally placed 16th, but his rank was dropped as a result the addition of Robert), also ranking last in his season.
• At 17th place, he is the lowest-ranked contestant to be eliminated mid-service and have no nominations.
• He is the first contestant to be ejected first and had participate in a challenge.

Quotes

• (About his signature dish), "Hundreds of people eat that in my diner every week. I don't think it was worth spitting out!"
• "Women are the best at cleaning, so it's right up their alley."
• "I was just trying to get ahead but, maybe Chef Ramsay should just pull the panties out of his ass or something!"
• Ramsay: "LOUIE!" Louie: "Yes, sir." Ramsay: "Fuck off back there! GET OUT! Yes, GET FUCKED! PILE OF SHIT!!"
• Ramsay: "Hey. Get upstairs, get your bags packed!" Louie: "Can I help? Can I help in the kitchen?" Ramsay: "Yeah, you can help me. GET OUT!!"
• (After being ejected by Chef Ramsay) "You want me out? You want me to pack my fucking bags? I'm out. My bags are packed. HE CAN KISS! MY! FUCKING! ASS!"

Gallery

• Chef
• Dish

Louie's Intro Spot

Louie in Blue Jacket

Louie's Confessional

Louie being told to get out

Louie Eliminated Midservice

Louie Eliminated Midservice (Part 2)

Louie's Signature Dish