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Famed television yeller Gordon Ramsay is also the subject of one of my favorite memes. An oldie but a goodie, the Gordon Ramsay meme sees meme-makers mimicking his creative way of insulting everyone with the audacity to cook for him. Check out some of the funniest Gordon Ramsay memes:

Which meme was your favorite? Let me know in the comments below!

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Famed television yeller Gordon Ramsay is also the subject of one of my favorite memes. An oldie but a goodie, the Gordon Ramsay meme sees meme-makers mimicking his creative way of insulting everyone with the audacity to cook for him. Check out some of the funniest Gordon Ramsay memes: Which meme was your favorite?

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Handlebar before Kitchen Nightmares

The Handlebar is one of the many food establishments located in Mt. Sinai, New York. It was purchased by couple Billy and Carolyn LeRoy last 2007 as they thought that it was a good business opportunity. The restaurant had a reputation for being a favorite haunt of the locals, but now it was dilapidated with neglect.

The restaurant was plagued with problems a year after being opened. The bar area was where the clientele flocked, leaving the dining room and its 18 tables deserted. It also had severely outdated décor and menu items which Billy didn't want to change as he thought it was cool. Speaking of Billy, he wasn't doing his best as a manager and frequently had mood swings which frustrated his employees. Moreover, the chef they hired named Melissa lacked the skills to whip out palatable dishes even though the owners insisted that she was a very talented cook.

With the earnings going down the drain, the couple was forced to resort on loans just to keep the restaurant open and to avoid losing their home. There was one last option left on the table for Billy and Carolyn: Chef Gordon Ramsay.

Handlebar on Kitchen Nightmares

Chef Ramsay arrives at Handlebar and meets with the incredibly-nervous couple. As with typical Kitchen Nightmares fashion, the chef orders a selection of the restaurant's menu items. While waiting for his food, Ramsay was surprised at the sight of the deserted dining area and the décor that was apparently around since the last century.

Billy and Carolyn breathed a sigh of relief as Ramsay enjoyed the soup, although Melissa found it hard to believe that her cooking impressed the expert chef. However, the next dishes failed to appease Ramsay's taste buds which brought Carolyn to tears. After the taste test, Ramsay summoned the restaurant's staff for a meeting and briefed them on the problems that plagued the establishment. Melissa confessed that she was not really a chef and that she had no passion for cooking.

Later that night, Ramsay observed Melissa in order to observe how her apathy affected the quality of the dishes she made. An hour into dinner service, the restaurant ran out of veggies which forced the staff to utilize strange ingredient combinations as substitutes. The Kitchen Nightmares host then confronted Billy and straight up told him that the food was the Handlebar's weakest link, but the owner refused to believe this.

The next morning, Ramsay visited the restaurant for a surprise inspection and found how unsanitary the conditions were in the food storage area. All of his findings led him to the conclusion that everyone in the establishment lacked any kind of passion in serving quality food and making the customers happy. Melissa and the entire staff were forced to clean every nook and cranny, but Billy refused to help them in this endeavor. Ramsay again confronted Billy which quickly became heated as the latter was unable to accept criticism, eventually leading to the owner walking out in a show of arrogance and pride.

Carolyn was left in the Handlebar and, unlike Billy, she was dedicated to ensuring that the business does not shut down. She also worked with Ramsay in every step of the way, starting with revamping the restaurant's menu with better food. During the second dinner service, Billy returned for the sake of his wife with still no love for Ramsay. Things slowly went downhill as the kitchen was swamped with orders which did not bode well with the simmering temper of the impatient customers. Seeing the collapse of his kitchen during a busy night, Billy had no other choice but to cooperate with Ramsay and let go of his bad attitude.

The Kitchen Nightmares team worked throughout the night for the Handlebar's relaunch. They got rid of the restaurant's antiquated atmosphere and gave it a fresh new look which included vibrant lamps and regal-looking furniture. Ramsay also turned the restaurant into a gastropub which was something the staff was unfamiliar with. To help spread the word about the restaurant's new incarnation, Ramsay arranged a motorcycle rally which included Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider. He also stayed during the relaunch night to enjoy the food along with WWE legend Mick Foley.

Handlebar Now in 2017 - The After Kitchen Nightmares Update

Ramsay revisited Handlebar a year later and found their dishes enjoyable. However, shortly after filming the revisit, the restaurant closed its doors.

The establishment was sold to a new owner and reopened as Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar in 2010. A year later, it was shut down and again changed ownership, turning it into a sports bar named Benchwarmers Tavern and Grill which is still open up to this day.

Sadly, Billy succumbed to cancer in 2015.

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Handlebar After Kitchen Nightmares - 2017 Update - The Gazette Review

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The Handlebar is one of the many food establishments located in Mt. Sinai, New York. It was purchased by couple Billy and Carolyn LeRoy last 2007 as they thought that it was a good business opportunity. The restaurant had a reputation for being a favorite haunt of the locals, but now it was dilapidated with neglect.

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Gordon Ramsay is the Scottish born chef that has turned his passion for cooking into a multimillion dollar empire. After achieving 16 Michelin Stars (the equivalent to a Golden Globe for fine dinning), he has owned and operated over 40 restaurants. This eventually led to eight TV shows between the U.S. and the U.K. So, yeah, in case you haven't caught on, the guy is a total BAMF in and out of the kitchen.

What makes his shows (especially Kitchen Nightmares) so popular is his dynamic insults and undisguised passion for fine dining. He has no problem ripping people a new one for undercooking, overcooking, microwaving, and feeding customers subpar food. So when a restaurant is failing and is up to their ears in debt, they call chef Gordon Ramsay in to repair the sinking ship. Ladies and gents, here are 15 moments form Kitchen Nightmares where Ramsay absolutely loses it, because let's face it - that's what we all want to see!

15. Levante's American Bistro, Beaver (PA)

After sampling some of the food while visiting Levanti's American Bistro, Gordon believes the bistro is using frying oil instead of olive oil for their meals. If that's not gag-worthy enough, he refers to the stuffed banana peppers as tasting like "donkey d**k" due to being frozen. (Which happens to be one of the best insults Ramsay drops in this episode.) But no other meltdown takes the cake than when he discovers old slimy chicken in the kitchen alongside tomato sauce COVERED in mould. Does he throw the sauce out and call it a night? No, he brings the pot of moulded tomato sauce into the dining room and shows the customers what they have been eating. It's safe to say they closed early that night and after doing some Google searching, Levanti's American Bistro closed all together after 15 years of business. I guess they still had mould on their food?

14. The Secret Garden, Moorpark (CA)

After being over $300,000 in debt, the owner of The Secret Garden called Ramsay in for some backup. In typical Ramsay fashion, he does very little waiting before ordering off the menu. But, of course, it never exceeds his expectations. Before expecting the kitchen himself, Ramsay orders the shrimp and strawberry salad, which he ended up sending back to the kitchen for fear of being "poisoned." But all hell breaks lose when he takes a step into the walk-in fridge only to find mould growing everywhere and...(wait for it)...MAGGOTS. Seeing the infestation sends Ramsay straight to the restroom where he is then heard gagging at the site. You would think seeing maggots on your ingredients and the world's top chef gagging would change your tune for change as the owner - but not this guy. By the end of the dinner service Ramsay rips into the chef and calls him a donkey, a French pig, lazy, and well, to go f**k himself.

13. Casa Roma, Lancaster (CA)

When your restaurant and bar is making less than $100 a night, Houston - we have a problem! Gordon visits Casa Roma to try and figure out why the restaurant is doing so terribly. After tasting the food and realizing the food is bland and watered down, he takes a look around the dining room only to find old food in the seats and broken booths. (Which is SO disgusting if you've been to a place like this.) The next day, Ramsay decides to enter the restaurant before the staff so he could check out the kitchen properly. And as you can expect...it doesn't go so well. He finds bloody meat, moulded ham (which was SO rotten that it actually stuck to Gordon's hand), rotten avocados, and three-month old ribs that makes Ramsay throw up in the kitchen trash can. If you're repulsed now, I wouldn't click the video if I were you.

12. Finn McCool's, Westhampton Beach (NY)

After ordering salmon, spring rolls, and Shepard's pie, Ramsay is repulsed by all three tastings. After finding out the kitchen serves frozen meals over fresh - Ramsay is pissed at the family owned restaurant. But if you thought that sounded rough, it gets worse. Ramsay witnesses the sous chef drop a chicken wing on the FLOOR before picking it up and throwing it back in the fryer. Apparently, the grease will "sterilize" the meat after falling on ground. Nasty! And of course, in Kitchen Nightmare prime, the episode takes a turn for the worse when Ramsay visits the fridge only to find cooked chicken next to raw chicken, old mince meat, and unorganized containers holding a bunch of who-knows-what. The only clean thing he found in the kitchen was a Gordon Ramsay cook book. #Awkward.

Lela's has to have one of the most awkward "executive chefs" I have ever seen on Kitchen Nightmares. For starters, he raps so loudly while he cooks that the patrons can hear him, he added chocolate syrup to a rack of lamb, and tells his waiting staff to "shut the fu*k up." Seems like a stellar guy to work for! After tasting the food, Ramsay discovers that everything is frozen and not house-made. And if there's one thing we learned from this show, it's that Ramsay cannot stand frozen food, people! But that's not the worst of it. Besides finding out the fridge isn't cold enough which results in rotting food, Ramsay discovers one of the employees is stealing from the restaurant. He chased down "Buzzard" to find food and bottles of wine in his bag-which resulted in the owner firing him on the spot.

10. Trobiano's, Great Neck (NY)

When Ramsay visit's Trobiano's for their "early bird special" he is dumbfounded by how crowded it is with "old" people. He also makes the excellent comparison between what the people were wearing to the decor of the restaurant. It's then, that Ramsay discovers a customer had fallen ASLEEP while waiting for his food! You can take a guess how his first taste of the menu was. But it wasn't until he visited the kitchen that led him to his outbursts. He uses phrases like "shocking," "my goodness me," and "bloody hell" to name a few.

As Ramsay is about to leave the kitchen he discovers mouse or rat droppings in the kitchen! When the owner and chef are speechless at the site of their dirty AF kitchen, Ramsay loses his patients screaming, "Say something, PLEASE!" When the silence continues, Ramsay threatens to leave which follows with a whole lot of F-bombs.

9. Guiseppi's, Macomb Township (MI)

You know the episode is going to be a good one when it starts off with Ramsay mocking the menu by saying "The essence of Italy...my A**." The Italian themed restaurant had only been open for two years and it looked like a dusty set from a cheesy sop opera. After scanning the menu, Ramsay orders the Octopus Salad. After one bite of his "fresh" seafood, he spit out his protein by saying it tasted like rubber and that it was like a "mouth full of Hubba Bubba." He even made the waitress try it for proof! (And yes, she agreed it was a little "tough". She, too, was embarrassed the restaurant had been serving that kind of quality to their patrons.) My favorite comment on his meal, though, was that he said the cheese was "hideous." I guess that's one way to describe your cheeses.

8. Spanish Pavilion, Harrison (NJ)

When there is fresh lobster on the menu, it's typically a crowd pleaser. But not at the Spanish Pavilion in Harrison, New Jersey. Ramsay orders the lobster bisque and has, probably, the most epic response to the rancid soup, asking if the lobster had already been dead before cooking it. The chef insured that lobster came from the live tank, however, when Ramsay inspected the tank, there was a DEAD lobster at the bottom. Which, of course, leads to the other lobsters eating the dead one and being infected with whatever the hell killed the first one. Yeah-we're gagging too.

But it gets better. After walking into the kitchen and covering his nose from finding dead lobster in multiple areas, he also stumbles upon a live PIGEON flying around! He could not make this stuff up even if he tried, folks.

7. Fiesta Sunrise, West Nyack (NY)

Fiesta Sunrise might as well be one of the worst kitchen's we've ever seen on Kitchen Nightmares. There were mouldy dishes, old pots of rice (that stayed true to form after he scooped it out with his bare hand), bad meat soaking in blood, and a staff that reuses food that hasn't been touched by its customers! But once he laid eyes on a massive can of refried beans that looked like cement (according to Ramsay), he asked the owner if he was "fu**ing stupid" before taking the cement-like beans to show the customers where their food came from... The owner is in such disbelief and in denial that Ramsay literally bends down to the owner's eye level to rip into him dropping all kinds of Ramsay insults.

You know your dining experience is going to be unreal when Gordon Ramsay asks the waiting staff why the dining room smelled so bad and their answer was SEWAGE. Ignoring the smell, Ramsay orders some dishes-which he was unpleased with-and then ordered a homemade Greek cookie. I was hoping the cookie would be better than his meal, but he literally choked on it from the amount of powdered sugar.

That night, during the dinner rush, Ramsay gets into a heated argument regarding parsley (of all things) and watches the cooks drop sauce all around the kitchen without cleaning up after themselves. Which, of course, leads to Ramsay searching the kitchen to find grease on the walls, sour pork, and bad pesto sauce. When he asks the chef if he's aware of how "dirty" his kitchen actually is - to which the chef agreed that he knew - Ramsay goes OFF on him for serving him a meal out of a filthy kitchen.

5. Hannah and Mason's, Cranbury (NJ)

Have you ever noticed some dessert trays that restaurants lay out? Some look so good that they seem fake. Whereas others look so bad, you'd rather skip dessert - which is a nightmare in itself! Well, when Ramsay visited Hannah and Mason's in New Jersey, he was astounded at the look of their dessert tray. But shit really hit the fan when he noticed an item was MISSING from the tray and was actually eaten by a customer! Concerned for the customers' safety, he checks the wellbeing of the kitchen to find unwashed vegetables (that never end up getting washed because the chef says they come "pre-washed"), old bacon, and a whole lot of unsanitary preparations. He gets in a shouting match with the owner which, inevitably, ends with the kitchen closing early that night.

4. Grasshopper Also, Carlstedt (NJ)

If there's one thing mozzarella sticks should have - it's cheese. But at Grasshopper Also, their mozzarella sticks happened to be doused in meat blood due to cross contamination during storage. Gross! It's no wonder this restaurant is $3,000,000 in the ground.

After having a bland meal of what tasted like onions in dish water, Ramsay asked the chef how he thought the food was. The chef believed what he served was "okay" which led to Ramsay ripping him apart for his bland food and decided to ransack the kitchen. Which is when he found the bloody mozzarella sticks, slimy salmon (that looked like was attacked by "cats"), and a whole lot of ew. As per usual, the owners play dumb and act like they had "no idea" the kitchen was this bad. Yeah, okay, guys.

This episode has to be one of the more feisty episodes from Kitchen Nightmares. With two brothers as owners at Oceana in New Orleans, the two bump heads the entire episode which is most likely why the restaurant is failing so badly.

If you watch the first three minutes of the video, you can see right away even the kitchen staff is repulsed by how dirty there kitchen is. And that's before Ramsay has his way with it! After viewing the kitchen and finding three dead mice, milky crabs, and precooked pasta - Ramsay eventually throws up in the trash bin. And let's just say, if you make chef Gordon Ramsay vomit from being in your kitchen, well, you should say goodbye to your business because that reputation will follow you for life.

2. Peter's, West Babylon (NY)

Peter's is an Italian restaurant with some serious issues, not only in the kitchen but with the staff. After complaining about the rotting produce, bad meat and broken freezer (along with witnessing the staff handing out complimentary food left and right), Gordon tries his best for a new beginning with the relaunch of Peter's Italian Restaurant. That is until a debt collector comes to meet with the hotheaded owner, and let's just say, it didn't end well. The owner rips off his blazer and charges the debt collector off his property with Ramsay trying to pull people off of one another! I know this is about Gordon's best freak outs - but in this scene, Gordon says it all by staying completely silent and totally dumbfounded.

1. Dillon's, Manhattan (NY)

After commenting that the dining room looks like it was dressed in "hospital lining," Gordon is a little hesitant for his lunch. He ordered the salmon (which the restaurant was out of, so they had to serve Gordon frozen salmon) and the vegetarian platter, to which he said a prayer before eating (and ended up having meat in!). The entire scene was cringe-worthy with him covering his eyes, rubbing his forehead, and shaking his head back and forth. If you think that's embarrassing, how about when Gordon walks in the kitchen to find dead flies, green chicken, rat droppings, and insects covering the floors. Yikes. As you can imagine he asks a lot of questions and the owner responds they have "rat traps" to catch the rats but doesn't seem too worried about their problem. And poor Gordon has to come in and make them realize having mice in your kitchen IS a problem.

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15 Golden Times Gordon Ramsay Absolutely Lost It On 'Kitchen Nightmares'

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Gordon Ramsay is the Scottish born chef that has turned his passion for cooking into a multimillion dollar empire. After achieving 16 Michelin Stars (the equivalent to a Golden Globe for fine dinning), he has owned and operated over 40 restaurants. This eventually led to eight TV shows between the U.S.

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During the seven seasons of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, the celebrity chef and restauranteur surely saw his share of revolting meals, mismanaged restaurants, and clueless owners and cooks. And he usually described them with flawless disgust. But in a recently resurfaced clip, Ramsay may have met his match with a wonderfully honest waiter.

In a clip from a season 3 episode focused on Mama Rita's in Newbury Park, California, Ramsay first walks into a wonderfully decorated, spacious restaurant. But it doesn't take long for Ramsay to realize things aren't quite what they seem.

Before Ramsay even begins to order, Mama Rita's longtime head waiter Brad warns the chef against ordering a slew of dishes, including Mexican staples such as empanadas, taquitos, and chicken. "...Just because I think they're really dry."

Unsurprisingly, the tamales and chimichangas were bone-dry.

And it seems like the waiter even has a future in writing bad restaurant reviews. After sampling the steak burrito (which Ramsay likens to a dirty diaper), Brad describes the dish in his own insightful way. "The steak was gamey. It was kind of like a car wash, moist and mushy," he said, before eventually losing his lunch in the restaurant kitchen.

The clip is so disgusting and bizarre that despite being a re-upload from 2010, it's gone viral on YouTube. In two days, it's racked up nearly 3 million views. Perhaps it's a sign that Ramsay needs to bring this beloved show back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHBe3XiS99Q

In an unsurprising twist for anyone who followed Kitchen Nightmares, Mama Rita's shut its doors just one year after Ramsay tried to revive the restaurant. According to Reality TV Revisited, the clueless owner Laura (who chalked up her failing business to simply not getting enough guests through the door), now operates a new restaurant, Mission Oaks Café in Camarillo, California.

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Waiter tells Gordon Ramsay exactly what's wrong with restaurant on 'Kitchen Nightmares'

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During the seven seasons of Gordon Ramsay 's Kitchen Nightmares, the celebrity chef and restauranteur surely saw his share of revolting meals, mismanaged restaurants, and clueless owners and cooks. And he usually described them with flawless disgust. But in a recently resurfaced clip, Ramsay may have met his match with a wonderfully honest waiter.

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When you go to a restaurant, you expect better quality food than a fast food joint. When you get pretentious and give the aura of trying to be a fine dining establishment while serving food that is already pre-made, canned, or frozen, you are no better than a diner or cafeteria. People will realize this and will desert your establishment in droves.

A fine example of this is in episode 15 of Season 6 ('Amy's Baking Company'). At first, Gordon Ramsay was impressed with the cakes that Amy said were made in-house. Then she ruins Gordon's dining experience by serving an under-cooked pizza and store bought frozen ravioli.

Another case of low quality food is in episode 10-11 of Season 6 ('Mill Street Bistro Part 1' and '2'). Joe Nagy claimed to have high quality food served from farm to fork. With further investigation, it turns out that the food is bought from a wholesaler and much of it is frozen and not fresh at all.

Gordon sampled multiple items on the menu and they all flopped. The onion soup lacked enough onions and was too greasy. The Oyster Rockefeller was greasy and bland. The scallops en croute had raw pastry and rubbery scallops. The elk quesadilla had very tough elk. The vegetarian ravioli was cold and greasy.The "catch of the day" is a trio of frozen and freezer burned fish. The $35 elk medallion was chewy and bland.

With the tough economy nowadays, people want value for their money. You cannot charge people high prices for mediocre food. If you do, you would not be in business much longer.

Gordon Ramsay is an advocate of fresh food that is prepared on site. He abhors canned and frozen food as it lowers the quality of the food and compromises the taste, texture and consistency. He also discourages the use of microwaves as it encourages "lazy cooking." Gordon advocates the use of the freshest and highest quality ingredients.

One of the goriest portions of each Kitchen Nightmares is when Gordon explores the kitchen of the failing restaurants. While not all of the kitchens in the series are filthy, most of them are deplorable. A lot of them do not have dates and labels which leads to spoiled rotten food still being used in the restaurant instead of being properly disposed of. Many of them do not even do a regular proper cleaning in the kitchen and the kitchen ends up using dirty ovens and kitchen equipment. A lot of the kitchens end up being infested with roaches and mice due to poor sanitation habits.

The walk-in freezers are usually the highlight of the kitchen inspections. A lot of them do not get cleaned and end up as storage for rotten food. They also end up as breeding grounds for molds and bacteria.

In episode 10 of Season 1 ('The Secret Garden'), Chef Ramsay makes a ghastly discovery and sees that the walk-in freezer is full of mold and even sees some maggots. Chef Ramsay and Chef Bardavid get into an argument because of the lack of cleanliness in the kitchen. Gordon even calls Chef Bardavid "a French pig."

In episode 9 of Season 2 ('Fiesta Sunrise') Chef Ramsay goes into the kitchen and discovers one of the worst things that could happen to a kitchen. He discovers a cockroach infestation. He then has to have an exterminator fumigate the place to get rid of the creepy crawlies.

Kitchen cleanliness is important because you are dealing with people's health and welfare every time you serve food. A dish that has been contaminated might lead to a sick or dead customer and a potential lawsuit. Furthermore, the restaurant might be shutdown by the health department due to poor sanitation practices.

A recipe for disaster is when the people who run the restaurant are not in the same page. Either the management is fighting amongst themselves or the employees are at war with the management. The fact that the economy is bad, the restaurant business is one of the hardest businesses out there and the competition is fierce is tough enough. If people do not put their act together, the end of the restaurant may be near.

In in episode 12 of Season 4 ('Oceana'), the brothers Rami and Moe have made the restaurant into their personal battleground. Moe is very stubborn and does a lot of practices that Rami deems are not acceptable such as freezing food for long periods of time and not sharing the recipes to the cooks in the kitchen for fear it might be stolen.

In episode 11 of Season 4 ('Zeke's'), the restaurant was divided into two factions - the owners (Darryl and Ellen Cortello) and the staff. The owners run the restaurant like their own little kingdom and show no appreciation towards their staff. They mistreat them and are very condescending. They also do not get any input from the employees and have it their way despite having very little knowledge in running a restaurant.

First impressions last. Before you get to sample the cuisine, the first thing you will see when you get into a restaurant is the dining room. There is no greater turnoff than to be in a restaurant that is filthy and that has been left behind by the times.

A great example of a restaurant that has lost its way is the once famed Seascape Restaurant (Season 1, episode 4) in Islip, New York. The restaurant has been around for four decades and was one of the most prominent in the area. During its heyday, the place was always packed and it was making good money. When the owner died, his wife Irene and his son Peter inherited the restaurant.

From then on, things began to decline. The place looks outdated. The dining room reeks of the smell of sewage. The place was in a sorry state.

Another example of an older restaurant that has gone astray is Nino's (Season 6 episode 9). Nino's has very tacky decor with random bottles hanging in the dining area and an outdated look. It also has outdated decor that takes you back to 1958 - when the restaurant was founded.

This is the clincher. There are literally thousands of restaurants in the country that need help and for you to be chosen to be the recipient of free publicity, makeover and consultancy by one of the greatest chefs in the world and one of the most successful restaurateurs is a godsend. While some people embrace the opportunity to work with Gordon Ramsay to help save their failing restaurant, others are very stubborn and resistant.

One of the most stubborn owners in the show's history is Joe Nagy from episodes 10-11 in Season 6 ('Mill Street Bistro Part 1' and '2'). Joe Nagy is a little man who thinks highly of himself. He claims to have been self taught by European master chefs and hypes his restaurant being from farm to fork. Gordon later discovers that all this is fabricated and suggests changes to be made - including leaving the kitchen to the chefs. When the episode ends the narrator says that Joe ends up back in the kitchen and half of the staff has left.

Samy and Amy Bouzaglo of episode 15 in Season 6 ('Amy's Baking Company') are also good examples of defiant owners. While in most episodes, Chef Ramsay was able to turn such owners around. Not so with Samy and Amy, they proved to be beyond help and for the first time in the show, Gordon Ramsay walked away and was not able to implement renovation and menu changes.

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5 Reasons Why the Restaurants in Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Failed

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When you go to a restaurant, you expect better quality food than a fast food joint. When you get pretentious and give the aura of trying to be a fine dining establishment while serving food that is already pre-made, canned, or frozen, you are no better than a diner or cafeteria.

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Gordon Ramsay has many shows on TV right now, but Kitchen Nightmares is not one of them. After attempting to save a few too many unsalvageable restaurants, the famous curse word-loving chef decided to kill that series a few years ago. "I got fed up with Kitchen Nightmares because I was getting s--t," the chef recently remarked. "So I woke up one morning and I thought 'F--k it, I'm done.'" Now, Ramsay regrets this decision, telling the Daily News: "Yes, it was wrong to pull my own show off air, but that's it."

The good news for fans of that early Ramsay endeavor is that he's planning to bring Kitchen Nightmares back in some form, perhaps under a different name, with a tweaked format. "The biggest demand over the last four years is for Kitchen Nightmares (to come back) and what I am putting together is a return of something magical," Ramsay says. The chef also notes that this will be, "Way, way, way better than Kitchen Nightmares, but along those lines."

Gordon is currently wrapping up his summer series and he's in the middle of a season of MasterChef, which also has a kid-centric spinoff. And then, of course, there's Hell's Kitchen, the Ramsay-hosted competition that returns at the end of September for its 17th season. Fox Television Group CEO Dana Walde also tells the NYDN: "We have a few different things in development with Gordon right now and we conceivably could see something new in the not too distant future."

Apparently, the network recently green-lit "several new shows with him," So get ready to see Gordon Ramsay on your television every night from now until the end of time.

* Gordon Ramsay wraps up 'F Word' season finale, regrets ending 'Kitchen Nightmares' [NYDN]
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Gordon Ramsay Regrets Abandoning 'Kitchen Nightmares'

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Gordon Ramsay has many shows on TV right now, but Kitchen Nightmares is not one of them. After attempting to save a few too many unsalvageable restaurants, the famous curse word-loving chef decided to kill that series a few years ago. "I got fed up with Kitchen Nightmares because I was getting s--t," the chef recently remarked.

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Kitchen Nightmares (TV Series 2007-2014)

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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. Grub didn't delve into the track record of Ramsay's original U.K. show of the same name, but we looked at everywhere Ramsay went in the contiguous United States: Here's a breakdown of all the restaurants that bounced back from the brink of failure, and the others that weren't so lucky.

Grand Totals
Number of participating restaurants in seven seasons: 77
Number still open: 30 (38.86 percent)
Number that have closed: 47 (61.84 percent)
Approximate number of restaurants closed within one year of (or before) the episode air dates: 23 (29.87 percent)

Season Two (2008-2009)
Episode 1: Handlebar, Mount Sinai, New York. Sold (2010) then Closed (2011)
Episode 2: Giuseppe's, Macomb Township, Michigan. Closed (July, 2009)
Episode 3: Trobiano's, Great Neck, New York. Closed (October, 2008)
Episode 4: Black Pearl, New York, New York. Closed (2008, four days after the episode aired.)
Episode 5: J Willy's, South Bend, Indiana. Closed (February, 2009)
Episode 6: Hannah & Mason's, Cranbury, New Jersey. Closed (February, 2010)
Episode 7: Jack's Waterfront, St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Closed (December, 2010)
Episode 8: Sabatiello's, Stamford, Connecticut. Closed (October, 2008)
Episode 9: Fiesta Sunrise, West Nyack, New York. Closed (September, 2008)
Episode 10: Sante La Brea, Los Angeles, California. Closed (June, 2011)
Episode 11: Café 36, La Grange, Illinois. Closed (2009)

Season Seven (2014)
Episode 2: Pantaleone's, Denver, Colorado. Open
Episode 3: Old Neighborhood Restaurant, Arvada, Colorado. Open
Episode 4: Kati Allo, Queens, New York. Open
Episodes 5 and 6: Mangia Mangia, Woodland Park, Colorado. Open
Episode 7 and 8: Zayna Flaming Grill, Redondo Beach, California. Open
Episode 9: Bella Luna, Easton, Pennsylvania. Closed (November, 2013. Three-and-a-half months after filming.)
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Over 60 Percent of the Restaurants on 'Kitchen Nightmares' Are Now Closed

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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."

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Kitchen Nightmares, known in the U.K. as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA, is an American reality television series originally broadcast on the Fox network, in which chef Gordon Ramsay is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. Produced by ITV Studios America, it is based on the British show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

The show premiered September 19, 2007, on Fox. On June 23, 2014, Ramsay announced that he was ending the series; the final episode aired on September 12 that year. In June 2018, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, a new series with a premise much like Kitchen Nightmares but a shorter timeline, premiered on Fox. The show still hosts a YouTube channel with over 6.57 million subscribers. The channel presents highlights from the show, and has also shown selected full episodes of the show. In May 2023, Fox announced that the show would re-enter production for an eighth season, which premiered on September 25, 2023.

Each episode of Kitchen Nightmares typically consists of a series of introductory clips and interviews of the specific restaurant before Gordon Ramsay's visit, emphasizing the subpar conditions of the restaurant. This is followed by Ramsay arriving to the restaurant for lunch, meeting the owner(s), and trying various items on their menu while making first impression observations of the restaurant. Chef Ramsay then consults the restaurant's chef(s) on his dining experience, which is almost exclusively negative. After this, every episode involves Ramsay observing a typical dinner service for the restaurant, it does not go well as the various issues of the restaurant are highlighted. Gordon Ramsay then in each episode inspects the conditions of the restaurant's kitchen and food storage compartments, uncovering even more issues. This is typically followed by meeting with the owners and/or staff to discuss the critical changes that need to made. These changes are then shown, from additions to the items in the menu to the staff being trained and occasionally replaced to the restaurant being remodeled. After these revisions, the restaurant is relaunched, which predominantly ends with a more successful service. After the end of each relaunch, Ramsay addresses the restaurant's owner and staff one final time before leaving, wishing them well. At the end of episodes of later seasons, a follow-up segment is shown, showcasing the status of the restaurant in the weeks and months after Gordon Ramsay's visit. Each season after season one, an episode is dedicated to Ramsay revisiting some of the previous restaurants he visited to see what became of the restaurant and its staff.

The show was produced by ITV Studios America and Optomen, in association with A. Smith & Co. Productions, with Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, and Patricia Llewellyn serving as executive producers.

In the UK, the series is broadcast under the name Kitchen Nightmares USA and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA on Channel 4, which also produced the original UK version. It is broadcast under this name to avoid confusion with the original UK version. UK airings of the US show feature an alternate soundtrack and mix, with less prominent musical stings, wild music, a lower level of vocal compression, and a different narrator to the US broadcast. It also airs uncensored, when shown after the watershed. Reruns, along with the British series, are frequently shown on BBC America.

On May 15, 2023, Fox announced that it would revive the series after a 10-year absence. Ramsay and his crew were spotted at several restaurants in the New York metropolitan area through the spring and summer of 2023. Some locations include a restaurant in Wayne, a pizzeria in Dumont, a bar and grill in Asbury Park, and a cafe in Saugerties.

Season eight premiered on September 25, 2023.

The third season was originally scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, but it was postponed to Friday, January 29, 2010, due to the State of the Union address.

In May 2010, the Fox network announced the return of Kitchen Nightmares for a fourth season, which aired from January 21, 2011, to May 20, 2011.

In March 2011, the producers of the show announced a casting call for a fifth season. The fifth season premiered on Friday, September 23, 2011, and ended on March 30, 2012.

In February 2012, Fox announced it had renewed Kitchen Nightmares for a sixth season, which premiered on Friday, October 26, 2012.

Season 7 was originally set to premiere on February 28, 2014, but was delayed until April 11, 2014.

In May 2023, Fox announced that it would revive the series after nine years. Season 8 premiered on September 25, 2023.

In September 2007, a case was filed by Martin Hyde, a former manager of Dillon's, against Ramsay for ten separate offenses, including allegedly staging disasters and hiring actors to trick the viewing audience. The case was dismissed because the contract signed by Hyde stipulated arbitration in the event of a legal dispute. The case went into arbitration in 2008.

In 2018, Oceana Grill sued Ramsay and the show's production company alleging fabrication. Specifically, they claimed that Ramsay staged a scene where he vomited during his kitchen inspection and planted a mouse in a rodent trap "to manufacture drama for their show." The restaurant also argued that a prior settlement from 2011 (before the episode aired) placed limits on the production company's ability to re-use clips from their episode. The 2018 suit was filed after the production company posted clips of the Oceana Grill episode on Facebook.

Gordon Ramsay in 2010

Ginia Bellafante of The New York Times found Ramsay's teaching methods and high standards "undeniably hypnotic" and commented, "the thrill of watching Mr. Ramsay is in witnessing someone so at peace with his own arrogance." Doug Elfman of theChicago Sun-Times said the show is "a very entertaining public service" that "will make you laugh, make you sick, and make you think". Randy Cordova of theThe Arizona Republic found Ramsay "just as blustery and foul-mouthed here as he is on Hell's Kitchen. But he is also oddly endearing, mainly because he genuinely seems invested in the fate of each restaurant".

Critics have commented that Fox's adaptation of Kitchen Nightmares strayed from the strengths of the original Channel 4 series. Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune said, "Leave it to Fox to take something the Brits did pretty well and muck it up". She added, "Never mind the cooking; this edition of the show appears to be more interested in playing up the family dramas at the restaurants Ramsay visits". Robert Lloyd of theLos Angeles Times commented, "Whereas the British Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is fundamentally a food show-it has interesting things to show you about how a restaurant runs and a kitchen works, the wonders of local markets and what you can make from them if you're Gordon Ramsay or willing to follow his instructions-the Fox edition emphasizes mishap, argument, and emotional breakdown almost to the exclusion of cuisine".

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Gordon's Emotional Visit To Doctor's Office - Kitchen Nightmares

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