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.
I saw that one. She was a spoiled brat. A daddy’s girl. Her father seemed liked a pretty good guy.
And, “Come on Muppets!”
One of the first ones, “The Bonaparte” where the kid poisoned him with a bad scallop was one of my favorites.
After that he would give a little prayer before eating: “Please let me not be poisoned.”
yup...and the seemingly overwhelming need for the owner to return to the lousy food and service that drive them into bankruptcy in the first place
That show was so phony and so formulaic you could have just shot one episode and spliced in some different voices.
It utterly sucked ... almost as bad as that douchebag Ramsey.
Ramsey said...What the hell are you doing?
Just making him tender, dad.
One black business owner that I have known for four decades and done business with as a contractor told me maybe thirty years ago that a lot of black owned businesses in South Carolina DID lose business because of racism. Now hear the rest of the story...he said that BLACK PEOPLE were quite inclined to walk right past a BLACK OWNED business to go and give their business to a white person. He said that if he lost his white customers he would not stand a chance.
I think most of these restaurants were so far gone that they couldn’t be saved.
They only called in Gordon Ramsey to create a little local buzz and get a free makeover of the restaurant so they could sell it for a higher price.
Agreed X10
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