Posted on 07/02/2014 6:51:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
Gordon Ramsay Announces End of Kitchen Nightmares
June 23, 2014
Over on GordonRamsay.com, your source for all kinds of Gordon Ramsay news and updates, the British chef says the time has come for him to put a fork in Kitchen Nightmares, which began ten years ago, we're guessing, with a bunch of yelling and a handful of inept U.K. restaurateurs. The chef discussed his franchise with Deadline recently, and said that he intended to "turn it upside down, reposition it and maybe hand the position over to someone else one day." This doesn't mean the end for Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, and MasterChef Junior, he notes, while writing, "It's sad to say goodbye to Kitchen Nightmares but I'll be continuing with my other shows."
June 25, 2014
In the end, Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares went out with a humble blog post, not with a bang, and in any case the chef's farewell announcement earlier this week marks the end of an expletive-filled era and slaying comments like, "Chimichangas? Chimi-chuck it in the bin." There were a few lawsuits along the way and various claims from proprietors that the show wrecked their businesses, but in all, while some spots have scintillating Yelp! reviews now, Kitchen Nightmares saved less than half of its featured restaurants, and a few even closed before their episodes aired.
a chuckle-worthy end.
I suspect 60% is pretty much average for how many restaurants close within a few years.
anyone watch Bar rescue? I’ve heard most of those businesses go under.
Without Ramsey’s constant nagging and common sense, most of them went back to their original menus and bad work habits. So many of them were not restaurant professionals. That is one hard business to learn from scratch.
Most of those that failed had nothing to do with Ramsey, except that they did not listen to him.
I found Jr. Chef absolutely amazing.
It's a hard life, with not much financial reward for most.
/johnny
It was actually a pretty good show. I am surprised that so many horribly-run restaurants gave them permission to air that stuff.
Some stuff wasn’t “real”. Many or all of the times they showed customers eating before things were fixed, all the customers knew in advanced it was for TV. The customers on the show always knew the show was taping in advance of showing up I think.
i like his show Master Chef...
That one girl had opened a vegan place in Paris. She had no desire to do any work, the chef was a joke and it only opened for dinner.
Gordon showed her that lunch was profitable with a very limited menu. Then he got her a new chef, an awesome young lady I believe and even met the owners dad. She was a spoiled thing.
She didn’t have the desire to make it work. I think Chef Ramsey hired the cook he found for the place too.
Darn, I wanted to visit that bar where the women “wore bikinis”.
I love it. My kids like it too. It's great winter-weekend marathon fare.
It's the same joke over and over. The most satisfying thing to me is that John Taffer yells at the owners and staff, just like you would like to. It's always well deserved.
The antics of the owners, staff and customers are always entertaining.
Now I know why my wife, who used to work at a restaurant, doesn't like to go out to eat. The bars on the show are uniformly dirty.
I can’t imagine how people can cook from memory! I love the show, though.
As someone who sold to restaurants for years I never met any restaurant owner/manager that was half as incompetent as everyone in the restaurants on the show.
Sometimes its a simple matter of location.
I went out to my hometown today to do some painting for my grandmother and I saw that the restaurant at the main intersection of two country roads is still open. Nothing around it but farms and its been there for better than 30 years.
The food isn’t great but it isn’t bad either. Just basic meat and potatoes type of stuff but they’ve got a regular customer base that eats there once a week.
I always thought the British version was a lot better than the fake drama of the American version.
A girl I know worked as a production assistant for an episode of kitchen nightmares and thought Ramsay was just the nicest guy. Said he was really good to everyone.
Well, that’s the problem with these shows. You don’t know how it’s edited and whether they’re forced to say or do things in order to get money and new décor.
That Ramsay character always made me want to splash hot fryer grease on him. I wouldn't patronize any establishment he was a part of.
All that having been said, my misfortune in life seems to be discovering a fabulous restaurant staffed by friendly staff, serving fabulous food at reasonable prices yet ultimately fails.
A lot of the scenes and clips are shown out of order and often out of context.
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