I always find it amusing when I read a "user review" and the reviewer claims to be a chef or a "good cook". I mean, how objective are people about their own cooking? I've just seen the advertisement for the Burger Battle, and they claim to have a "Chef-Driven" panel, featuring a couple of instructors and some other chefs who you wouldn't hire to work your kid's birthday party, so I started thinking about why anyone thinks that this makes any difference at all. I really don't think it does.
Maybe you didn't notice, but there's a lot of bad food in Fort Lauderdale, and every one of the places with bad food have chefs and cooks. Most cooks don't really do much more than execute someone else's recipes; line cooks can be no better at their craft than your aunt Ethel, who makes the marshmallow/cabbage casserole every Christmas.
A pretty good illustration of this was last year when I was at YOLO with a guy who owns a small restaurant chain in Tampa; his head chef was here with him on business. They ordered some asian-style calamari, and offered me some. I mentioned that I prefer my squid rings with a spicy marinara, so the restaurant owner asked our server to get us some. I really wasn't that interested, but some humor set in when they brought out some sort of BBQ sauce. We asked again, explaining that it's a tomato sauce. A short while later, they brought us a messy concoction laden with chili pepper flakes.
If I said the sauce was terrible I'd be being very kind; it was God-awful. Now YOLO has a meatballs appetizer, so it shouldn't have been too difficult to spice up some tomato sauce. But what they gave us was wholly incompetent. Whoever made this is not only a bad cook; they have no idea how to cook at all.
Most "chefs" around here are Culinary Institute grads, so what does that say about the instructors? Can someone who can get a good job at a good restaurant really want to teach at a Culinary Institute? You know what they say, "Those who can, Do; Those who can't, Teach".
My point here is that just because someone cooks for a living doesn't mean that they're any good, or that they know much about food. It doesn't add or detract from their credibility.