DVD Talk Forum - The One and Only KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (2024)

I hate this show and the hyperdramatic Fox style with a passion, yet I watch it for trashy entertainment. It's the worst kind of boob-tube junk food. Doesn't reflect well on Ramsey that he would choose to continue with this crap and drop the infinitely superior British version, as it appears he has done.

One of the things I hate most is how Fox plays up the incessant idolatry and grovelling of Ramsey from the f*ckless participants: "I couldn't believe someone of his calibre was tasting my food"; "To have the greatest chef in the world helping us is (tears well up)...I can't explain it"; "He has changed my life"; blah, blah, blah.

Despite of what you think of the show, Well that's a bit a-holey don't you think.
Wasn't the point that they needed this guy to help them fix the restaurant and then learn how to keep it running properly, as this is what has happened.

I watch the BBC version and the USA version, and I don't see a lot of difference.

As long as Gordon's hands are flying and clapping as he talks to the camera, it's all good.

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I like them French fried potaters.

Programming suicide, but there's a new episode tonight.

Kitchen Nightmares

I watch this on and off. A Phoenix restaurant was on this week, so I watched.

The owners were so unwilling to change, that the whole episode went by, and Ramsey ended up leaving without doing anything.

Now I really want to go there and send some food back to see what happens. Haha.

Anyone else watch it?

I saw it. Wow, that bitch was crazy. Great episode.

Taking the waitstaff's tips. -ohbfrank-

Their yelp page is getting destroyed!

I can't believe they are still open. I thought for sure the episode would end with a shot of the closed restaurant.

Current and former employees definitely need to go after the owners over tips. That is f'ing BS!!!

Yeah, they took it down but they had a posting on their Facebook page saying that they didn't need to defend themselves or their practices. After about 3K terrible comments they finally pulled it down. But the funny thing is people started actually looking into them. That Amy lady has is a criminal, literally. She got busted for Social Security fraud, people even starting posting the public court documents about it. It was hilarious.

That being said I totally love anything with Gordon Ramsay so I'm looking forward to next season.

The user photos and recent reviews are hilarious.

This was easily the most entertaining episode of Kitchen Nightmares. I can't fathom how I would've reacted if I was the guy who was waiting for his pizza. The owner assaulted him, didn't he? Why didn't they call the cops?

This is going to put that place out of business, though. Nobody will eat there now. That woman was a total loon.

I wonder if he's declaring those tips to the IRS.

They'll stay in business, if they turn this into a gimmick. I'd go there once in awhile to joke about it and get yelled at. But I doubt that will happen. These people seemed completely unaware of how they look.

This is awesome - i've been watching kitchen nightmares since it debuted and havent ever really thought much about posting (apparently i posted twice in this thread in 2010). Then this episode happens and i come on here to find a thread and i see the old one bumped for the same reason! Those 2 were certifiably insane. Even when she was calm, she was loony (the cats and starting in on the "haters")

Awesome that their "plan" was to have Gordon come on and rave about their food and "prove everyone wrong". But all they did was make themselves look worse.

They could milk the notoriety and make it like a Dick's last resort. Except she's too delusional to be in on the joke. Or just drop the bistro part and go bakery only...

I'm actually going to be in Scottsdale in 2 weeks and plan on looking into eating there. But I have to look into the prices. Bad expensive food is never worth it, no matter the entertainment.

I live about a mile away from where the restaurant is. The minute I saw the shots of the outside I recognized the shopping center. I get my haircuts across the street from them.

Tried to convince my mom that's where we should have gone for Mother's Day dinner but she wasn't having it.

I've come to the conclusion that anyone over the age of 14 who ever uses the term "hater" seriously and in everyday conversation has some sort of mental illness.

I think it went beyond spoiled, etc, that woman was mentally ill. She needs some serious psychological help. From a practical stand point, she can clearly bake, but cannot cook. Get a chef. Make the pastries (or hell just have a coffee shop/bakery) but that's a point they could only get after some medical and probably pharmacological intervention.

Great episode:

found this info on a blog (a family member)

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bel...ing.php?page=2

Looks like Amy might be doing some more jail time for loan fraud - Sammy kept his hands clean and put everything in her name... guess that is how you fund a $1M restaurant and 'gangster' lifestyle.

It's possibly the most entertaining of the American shows, but the British version was a totally different breed. It didn't have any of Fox's insufferable contrivances. A couple that stand out from the British incarnation are Piccolo Teatro in Paris, with the rude, entitled owner who walked off, and the one in Brighton with Alan Love. Then there were the clueless dudes on the Spanish coast with dogsh*t on the patio, and the one with the three bitchy sisters, and on and on. Much better show.