Kitchen Nightmares
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Noodleface
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One thing Kitchen Nightmares is good for is making you never want to go out to eat again. Seriously some of the shit he finds is downright repulsive (roaches, mold, questionable meats, cooked meats stored with uncooked). You never know if one of these places is in your backyard that you go to all the time.
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Yeah, pretty much the same for me as well. In general people are disgusting creatures that barely give a shit about their own hygiene and cleanliness, let alone that of others (i.e those dining in the restaurant). When left to their own devices without risk of getting caugt, most people will do disgusting shit. The only places where you have a decent chance of ensuring cleanliness is big chain restaurants and super expensive/famous places, and that's only because those types of places have a constant level of oversight in the form of regional managers or famous names with a reputation to protect.
Obviously you'll find a clean one now and then, like the place these crazies run, but I'm willing to bet the majority of mom and pop restaurants are more on the dirty side.
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a friend in vegas recently came down with food poisoning at a relatively high end place (firefly, a tapas place), turns out over 200 people got sick/hospitalized with salmonella poisoning over just a 3 day period, fortunately no one died. mass lawsuits inc already. I ate there 3-4 times and it never seemed like the kind of place that would get so bad, its so critical to have a owner and manager on top of the kitchen though.
The UK version of KN is apparently way better, like heres one way Gordon loved the food but they had marketing problems (deep south restaurant in london!)
The sad thing is after the episode aired business exploded, the place expanded like crazy, and then shut down within a year because the quality of food suffered and a lot of the hype was short lived so costs became unmanageable. Ironically Gordon Ramsey's empire fell prey to the same problem in 2010 and he had to infuse a ton of his own cash to survive.
The UK version of KN is apparently way better, like heres one way Gordon loved the food but they had marketing problems (deep south restaurant in london!)
The sad thing is after the episode aired business exploded, the place expanded like crazy, and then shut down within a year because the quality of food suffered and a lot of the hype was short lived so costs became unmanageable. Ironically Gordon Ramsey's empire fell prey to the same problem in 2010 and he had to infuse a ton of his own cash to survive.
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Gravel
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That's pretty crazy. A girl my wife went to high school with ended up getting E. Coli from a restaurant. She started getting seizures and ended up getting hospitalized for around 6 months. Had kidney dialysis for several months too. Apparently that shit will fuck you up.
Yep, I pretty much stick to only chains and busy restaurants after watching some episodes of Kitchen Nightmares a while back. I just don't trust places without a lot of business to keep fresh food and clean kitchens at all anymore.
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Even after they have been on the show and reformed, I would never go to any of these restaurants. Every one, EVERY SINGLE ONE, is disgusting to the point that you sometimes get nauseous just watching the show. I would never trust them to maintain the level of cleanliness that the show brings. It is telling that the one time they don't show you a restaurant disgusting to the point that it should be shut down by the damn health department, it is psycho owners who drive their customers away with their personalities and practices.
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yeah, i honestly dont know why people ever want to go to these places after they have shown to be dirty as fuck. these people are dirty fuckers. as a regular watcher of Hoarders has taught me. you can clean up their house , but the pig is still left behind. that shit always gets messed up again eventually. which is why 9 out of every 10 restaurants ramsay has visited has closed down already.
The Indian place in Season 1 of the US series was awful, the place was literally infested with bugs. If I ate there and seen that episode on TV a year later, I'd be up there with my foot up someones ass, that's for sure.
Basically all of the restaurants with black people or Italians running them are filled with these stubborn arrogant people with huge attitude problems. Those ones are the most entertaining. Then there are the ones like the Sushi Ko episode that you actually feel bad for the family and when you Google the place and see that they closed down, it's pretty shitty. Just about every single restaurant short of a handful have closed down after being on that show though, so it's basically to be expected.
Basically all of the restaurants with black people or Italians running them are filled with these stubborn arrogant people with huge attitude problems. Those ones are the most entertaining. Then there are the ones like the Sushi Ko episode that you actually feel bad for the family and when you Google the place and see that they closed down, it's pretty shitty. Just about every single restaurant short of a handful have closed down after being on that show though, so it's basically to be expected.
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The Sushi Ko episode was so amazing. Dude literally made the best transformation and you could tell he was so happy.
Gravel
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Or to think about it another way, do you clean up your house before you're about to have company? Probably. What about if it was a local news organization? National television show?
It's not like these people are surprised by the show coming. If they actually gave a shit about their reputation, they'd make sure their restaurants were fucking spotless.
I had read an article about how many of these places (not just from Kitchen Nightmares, but pretty much any renovating your business type show) close up shop after the show leaves. You're taking a place that was literally weeks to months away from closing. It's highly probable that the people running it aren't capable of running a business, much less a restaurant where turnover is so incredibly high. Even if you gave them an incredibly high functioning restaurant, they'd probably fuck it up eventually. All the show is doing is delaying it just a little bit. There are a few that manage to stay open. That's probably where the owners are capable, they just either got in over their heads or had a poor business model, or some other problem that got out of control. The majority are people that shouldn't be working for themselves (or employing other people).
joz123
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Looks like they deleted every post from Yelp on 5/15/13 and are deleting a lot from today and it seems they are making fake accounts to bump up their rating also rofl
Found their tumblr page, more lolz.
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Found their tumblr page, more lolz.
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The UK version I think was a lot better, it's not edited so you get to hear Gordon in all his glory which is pretty goddamn funny at times. This episode with Amy and Samy may be the greatest one he's ever done just because of how fucked up they are but there is an episode from season 1 or 2 of the UK series where it was 2 kids who had no fucking idea what they were doing. He blindfolded them then gave them different proteins and asked them to name them as they tasted them, think they got them all wrong. Was just amazing.
