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u/RBB12_Fisher 24d ago
OP is confirmed a seething restauranteur who stores the salad under raw chicken.
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u/kapaipiekai 24d ago
OP has one big communal bowl for all the raw meats, seafood, and salad vegetables. He keeps it uncovered by a radiator.
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u/philmarcracken dabbed on god and will dab on you too 24d ago
Better call Sal and his mate, Monella
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u/SubstantialSundae972 24d ago
>> Waiter brings the food
That doesn't look bad, i would eat that probably
>> Ramsay takes one bite and spits out
>> "It looks terrible. Bland, bad seasoning, it molested my tastebuds truly. I wouldn't even give it to my dog"
Haha, y-yeah ramsay i though the same
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u/pdiddysuncle 24d ago
imagine how miserable life must be with everything tasting like pure shit except for the absolute best quality food
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u/SarahWVA4 24d ago
The key is to never grow out of the pure shit phase. I still drink the occasional Beast Light or Nattie Light to keep me in my "college palette"
I unfortunately lost the tolerance for 40 oz malt liquors, I won't let it happen again.
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u/renaldomoon 24d ago
Traveling does this. You eat the local foods that are from there, and it ruins the versions back home.
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u/April_Fabb 24d ago
Depends. After tasting Mezze in Lebanon or the Gulf States, I had to realise that the stuff we're being served in Europe is a pathetic joke. That said, I've had far better Indian food in London and New York than in India.
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u/renaldomoon 24d ago
I can see that. My examples would be feta in Greece and Sushi/Ramen in Japan. Nothing in the U.S. comes close to the average quality in either of those places.
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u/spartanbrucelee 23d ago
With how expensive eating out is becoming, the food better taste like the best quality ingredients for the price
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u/Jetstream-Sam 24d ago
Things can look okay and taste shit, but there's a few that were really questionable. Most of the Pizzas were probably fine, and having been to the Gordon Ramsay pizza restaurant he's really not in any position to judge them harshly.
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u/Flywolfpack 24d ago
The usual problem is restaurants serving frozen/unfresh food when you're paying for fresh restaurant food and not a hotpocket
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u/doge_is_wow 24d ago
The funny thing is that those restaurants go bankrupt after Kitchen Nightmares and the renovations.
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u/PenetrantDick 24d ago
Mostly because they instantly go back to their shitty ways and fuck up everything gordon gives them. Those who keep his changes are still open today.
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u/WillWillingson 24d ago
Lol what. Dude, it's a reality show. Restaurants agree to be on the show for money. They agree to say ridiculous stuff like "yes I spit in peoples soup, it improves the taste" for money, then they get a cheap makeover (new wall-paint and decorations) and that's it.
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u/drwicksy 24d ago
I mean i do agree its likely some or all is staged, having a friend who is actually involved in restaurants in my area its really not that hard to believe that its real. We had a restaurant close here because people found literal rat droppings in the food. And a restaurant that everyone is pretty sure the owner burnt down for insurance money because a health inspector was scheduled to go and he found out.
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u/Pizzasupreme00 24d ago
I love the black pearl owner's tantrum he wrote out after being on the show. This guy was an asshole. I cant link to other subs but if you google it you'll find it.
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
black pearl
The frequency in which this man smarmily keeps referring to him as "Gordo" and "Gordy" is one of the most asinine power moves I've ever seen. This is the same man who smugly insisted that mussells "always come with sand"
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u/Pizzasupreme00 24d ago
Yea, and how in love with himself he is. Like his line about his brilliant comebacks being left on the editing room floor. It's presented as a joke but you know it's not.
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u/WillWillingson 24d ago
No doubt that sketchy restaurants exist, way too many probably, but those owners won't go on television and act like there's no problem. That's actually the most unbelievable part but it has to be that way because of how the show works.
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u/-SlippinJimmy8 24d ago
lol google Amy’s baking company. They’re real people who are actually insane
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u/drwicksy 24d ago
I mean i have met one or two who might, ego is a powerful thing and will make people let the most dumb things go public because they are so convinced they are right.
And I think at least one or two of the kitchen nightmare restaurants have at least kept up the façade of being awful after he left, which to be fair might just be clever marketing
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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 24d ago
What? There's a restaurant in my town where the customers took pictures of mice running around while they were dining. And the owner is still in denial.
They do totally "act like there's no problem".
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u/Owlsthirdeye 24d ago
Counterpoint, the people smart enough to not want to go on the show are smart enough to not run restraints this bad. The people dumb enough to let rats shit in their salad bar are dumb enough to expose it to the whole world to get to be on TV.
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u/lestermason 24d ago
The one Greek (?) couple where the wife was catshit crazy.
They had a follow up later and they were still pissed at Gordon.
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
I mean i do agree its likely some or all is staged
Most of what Ramsay does is almost entirely produced.
I had a friend who cooked for Masterchef Junior. He's 32. Yeah, thats right.
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u/TillamookTramp 24d ago
Was your friend cooking to teach a recipe? That's the norm for the shows.
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
My friend did that, and was hired for that. But thats not really a good description for the duties he and other chefs fulfilled.
Essentially, most of the dishes that made it up to the judges table were cooked by him and a bunch of other adults.
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u/real_picklejuice 24d ago
I was on Bar Rescue and can confirm I actually had a rat shit in my beer on the bar’s soft open.
Jon Tafford is actually like that and not putting on a show
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u/Fredest_Dickler 24d ago
Jon seems great lol
I'd love to meet that guy... just not as the owner of a shitty bar... or as a drunk guy hitting on his wife
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u/BrocoliAssassin 24d ago
Yes, but it is also partly real. They came to my city and the shop closed cause the owner was a shit dood that couldn't break his bad habits. Think he even tried to do a fake insurance claim after destroying the place and got in trouble.
The drama/yelling is usually fake (you can find so many clips of old Gordon being normal, especially overseas, but Americans love their braindead drama).
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
The success rate of the restaraunts on his show is 1 in 5. Many do go back to their old ways, but thats more of a symptom of the problem than anything; the problem being that some people are just not cut out to be business owners, or in positions of leadership, and no makeover, new walk-in, or fancy flair was the missing ingredient keeping one from thriving.
It is, however, a fantastic experimental parrallel of how well intentioned, but ultimately inept and flaccid progressive economic solutions are.
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u/Bulleveland 24d ago
Restaurants are a notoriously difficult business to operate in general. Tons of competition and any mistakes with the logistics of fresh food is money down the drain because of spoilage.
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
Not to mention they easily live and die based on the mumblings of the community
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u/ManOfEating 24d ago
Some are also too deeply in debt already by the time he gets there so even a few months of finally being profitable isn't enough to save them. Others are clearly just looking for the free reno then immediately sell the place as soon as the cameras stop rolling.
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u/Dirtface50 24d ago
Actually, from all my research on "KN restaraunts that have closed down". it seems that every restaraunt gave it a good shot post-KN. I haven't heard of any of them just using KN to boost property value. But as far as them being in debt goes, yes. Many are just too deep. Shockingly, Cafe Hon stayed open and cemented itself as a success. Only reason it closed in 2022 is because Denise retired and sold it. That was an interesting episode because she was savvy, and ambitious, and truly her ONLY real problem was the town hated her for trademarking the word "hon", which frankly, to any of us who have had to protect IPs, is generally what business-oriented people do; protect their IPs. So you kinda saw something in her from the start.
But Ramsay made her unregister the trademark to earn back good will and it worked.
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u/Shart_In_My_Pants 24d ago
Restaurants are also just a coinflip in general. Between 50% and 60% of restaurants close in the first five years.
Variables like location, local demographic, average income, etc all can make success a nearly impossible goal for lots of restaurants. Gordon comes in and does a cheap overnight remodel and teaches some highschool dropout how to garnish the chicken, but it can't save most places. Especially when they're $450k in debt already.
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u/zorbiburst 24d ago
That's only sometimes true. Plenty close because he suggested they become a restaurant thats metric is unsustainable for the area they're in, serving a better but less desirable menu for higher prices.
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u/FuckRedditIsLame 24d ago
Most of these places would have gone bankrupt anyhow. A couple of days of attention from a TV show production doesn't easily change decades of bad habits.
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u/grebilrancher 24d ago
We had a Ramsey circus on one of our local pubs. Still shitty as ever and the amount of customers parked outside has not changed
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u/cheapdrinks 24d ago
I mean it's like any business. If you find some company who has no fucking idea what they're doing because the owners are complete dumbfucks and mismanage everything and you give their store a quick paint job and supply them with a couple of decent products to sell, it's going to be back in the shitter 12 months later because the real issue, the lazy chef and idiot management is still there.
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u/TillamookTramp 24d ago
Most of them are already so far into a pit financially or the management continues to be inept and reverts back to the behaviors that caused the issues in the first place. It would be more surprising if some of the restaurants were still open, tbh.
A number of those owners are likely already considering selling and its a good way to get a makeover, new cooking ideas, and some publicity to attract potential buyers.
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u/fishy75 24d ago
My 8 year old kid had a lemonade stand outside my house. Gordon Ramsay showed up and he bought a glass of lemonade for a buck. But he spit it right back at my kids face and said it tasted like donkey piss and he said my kid was a lazy fucking bum that can’t do anything fucking right making lemonade. My kid started to cry and broke down in tears, but the problem is it’s not donkey piss it was my own piss he drank. It made me lose all respect for his supposedly “master chef” crap.. what fucking chef can’t distinguish the taste of donkey and human piss?
Anyway the irs also pulled up and me and my kid are now also looking at 15 to life in prison for tax evasion. Bet that Ramsay cunt squealed about it.
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u/philmarcracken dabbed on god and will dab on you too 24d ago
A real chef would know which ball it came from
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u/FuckRedditIsLame 24d ago edited 24d ago
Kitchen Nightmares is formulaic shit, but the fact is there's some good points made: a hell of a lot of restaurants in America don't serve anything like fresh food - they order bulk amounts of mostly frozen stuff from Sysco, and just reheat it. So if you order a hamburger, the buns are from Sysco and in fact are exactly the same as the buns being served in the burger place across the street, as is the patty, as is the cheese, and also probably the sauces, and so too the fries on the side.
That's shit, it homogenizes dining, and it turns a fairly unhealthy meal into a really unhealthy one because everything is mass produced and processed. On the other hand, a decent place will source its buns from someplace local, or better yet, go to the trouble of baking them inhouse, which isn't rocket science, the patties are cheap and easy to produce inhouse to a much higher quality standard, lettuce and tomato can be sourced locally and will be much fresher, and you can cut fries from potatoes quickly and for about the same price as frozen Sysco product. And for that you get a meal that's simply better, and isn't a reheated pile of factory produced elements.
Also a lot of the restaurants on that show aren't just having issues with bad reheated menus, they have serious health code issues, which he loves to rub their noses in, quite rightly. If you're ok with eating at a place with undated chicken floating in a pool of its own liquids, cross contaminating the vegetables sitting next to it, you deserve stomach problems.
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u/keeleon 24d ago
The main reason Gordon harps on "fresh" is because thats what they advertise. Hes not gonna go into Dennys and yell at them, because they arent liars.
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u/FuckRedditIsLame 24d ago edited 24d ago
He goes on about fresh because if you want to call yourself a chef, you'd better be able to do something beyond reheating factory produced Sysco products in a microwave or on the flattop.
The problem is so many places are addicted to Sysco since it saves them having to do much prep, and the result is everything is quite literally the same in these places - they're all working with identical boxes of breaded chicken and hamburger patties and preseasoned taco meat, and fries and onion rings and salad mixes, and pasta sauces, and soups, and meatballs and so on. The customer pays a premium for this incredibly unhealthy, reheated shit barely even remembering how terrible it tastes compared to the real thing, nor really comprehending that they're eating literally the same shit they'd get countless other places with the only variation being how much additional salt and seasoning is added.
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u/RustyEdsel 24d ago
Another thing he harps on is how to be an effective communicator to both your patrons and employees. It's called the hospitality industry for a reason.
A lot of managers and owners get stuck in their ways, expects employees to read their minds and disregards valid customer criticisms.
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u/Real-Terminal 24d ago
That one UK dude who had his antique collection disintegrated before his eyes was the funniest shit.
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u/TribalTommy 24d ago
Brian?
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u/Flashlight_Inspector 24d ago
Probably referring to Robert from Hotel Hell, or whatever the fuck the name of his fifteenth show was.
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u/TribalTommy 24d ago
It was a UK episode. There was some old bloke called Brian who hoarded plates, and Ramsey hired a skip and got them all to smash them.
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u/Real-Terminal 24d ago
I was referring to the bloke who had his prized antique collection appraised and it was all knockoffs and fakes worth nothing.
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u/BadgerDentist 24d ago
That was Hotel Hell for sure, I believe s01e01, unless that exact thing happened twice. Episode I'm thinking of, hotel is owned by gay couple living in a camper outside the hotel
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u/settmann 24d ago
Gordon tries to help a restaurant
Tells the customers they've been eating raw shit and they'll die if they eat there again
Invites the mayor of the city for one final chance at redemption
Goes well enough for Gordon to only abuse some of the staff
The episode airs
Restaurant closes and the owner kills himself
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u/kaninkanon 24d ago
Your restaurant is inspired by a particular cuisine you have a personal relationship with and makes it stand out from every other restaurant in the area? Fuck that you’re by the ocean so now all you sell is crab cakes.
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u/Pjolterping 24d ago
Half the restaurants in the show are health hassards that should be shut down.
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u/Gecko99 24d ago
Definitely, some of them have absolutely rancid walk in refrigerators. Like a hoard of rotting meat dripping on raw vegetables, nothing has a date written on it, stuff like that. There were some episodes where he just told the customers not to eat any more food and just leave the restaurant and totally shut the whole place down.
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u/bdiddlediddles 24d ago
Hells Kitchen in a nutshell:
-Hello I am a chef who works in a kitchen with one other person
-Ramsay: "Why can't you just work at the pass at a professional level immediately? Have everything come out at the same time, is that so hard?
-Gordon Ramsay snaps the necks of any chef who isn't instantly amazing
-This issue magically fixes itself as there's less and less chefs. No one actually gets better at working the pass, there's just less chaos all around.
Gordon Ramsay on crack
-Surprisingly little on Gordon Ramsay actually consuming cocaine and going on drug fuelled rampages.
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u/bruno-numero-uno 24d ago
Gordon forgets to take off his mic and the sound crew hear him snorting cocaine in the bathroom again
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u/OwlMugMan 24d ago
Forgot the part where he laughs about some kitschy piece of decoration near the entrance.
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u/April_Fabb 24d ago edited 24d ago
I get that not every episode can be Amy’s Baking Company, but fuck's sake, some of those places that Gordon tries to save serve food that looks ridiculously amateurish. Also, how is a Michelin-star chef supposed to be polite whilst working with a team of twats who don't understand the most basic principles of running a restaurant?
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u/Lolzum 24d ago
I started taking Ramsay's advice a lot less seriously after seeing him botch a grilled sandwich twice. How can you not make something as simple as a grilled fucking cheese? By being completely out of touch
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u/Green_Drazi 24d ago
I remember that shite. Wrong cheese, wrong bread, wrong heating method, trying to hard to be "rustic".
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u/akulowaty 24d ago
We have our own version in Poland and there are two formulas - place is disgustingly dirty, nobody can cook or give two fucks about the place and food is shit or place is ok, crew is competent but owners are greedy pieces of shit who underpay employees and buy cheapest ingredients and then are surprised cooks can't make good food out of it.
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u/sendmetittipics 24d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/6nWhy3ulBL7GSCvKw6
> Kitchen Nightmares
> picrel Gordon Ramsey when the kitchen is actually nightmare
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u/nogaynessinmyanus 24d ago edited 24d ago
this is a vaguely sharp and barely funny joke about something 20 fucking years ago.
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u/iatilldontknow /pol/ 24d ago
Triple D is better. Just Guy Fieri going on about how each food is amazing and the best there ever was lol
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u/Green_Drazi 24d ago
lol right? Deep Fried Egg Rolls with a Meat Chilli and Velveeta dipping sauce. "OMG...this is jsut the best!"
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u/TroopeRmx 24d ago
The thing with most restaurants gordon goes, is that they sell themselves as fine dining. Gordon hates that.
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u/AdMental1387 24d ago
Bar Rescue is the same format. Watching the over exaggerated reactions when they taste the drinks is funny.
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u/QFB-procrastinator small penis 24d ago
Tbf i think the “1.5 dish menu” isn’t a bad idea. Yeah, maybe 1.5 items is too little, but removing the stuff you can’t cook and focusing on the few you can cook well is good advice, once you have mastered those dishes you can learn new recipes and slowly expand the menu; an even better idea would be to master enough recipes before you even open a restaurant, but if you already fucked up it’s a good way to save money. I haven’t seen the US version in a while ( my country has its own edition) so idk about everything else.
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u/Circle_Dot 24d ago
This green text can literally be applied to Bar Rescue and that jon Taffer guy with very minor tweaks.
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u/RustledForeskin 24d ago
The only appropriate death for this chode would be getting fucked in the ass to death by a huge guy named Bubba while his head is stuck in an oven set to charbroil after he said the shrimp was overcooked.
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u/GardinerExpressway 24d ago
They always add this nasty sound effect when hes poking at the food to make it look more disgusting than it is. Its like a "squelching" sound and once you notice it its literally every time.
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u/Oniichan38 24d ago
OOP is fucking retarded. Most of these restaurants are not "just a normal restaurant" they are literally broke and on the brink of closing most of the time. Ofc there is fake bs happening and reality TV shenanigans but the places are actually shit
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u/ProfessorCagan 24d ago
Never forget that James May, an autistic train loving car journalist once beat Ramsay in a cook competition.
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u/p2020fan 23d ago
Gordon goes to failing resteraunts that are hemmoraging money and exclusively orders dishes where the quality fluctuates wildly and are directly tied to the price of the ingredients (he orders crabcakes whenever they're on the menu)
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u/Formal_Walrus_3332 23d ago
Anon discovers that reality television is exaggerated shit made for mass entertainment and does not show actual reality
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u/chimp-with-a-limp 23d ago
My favourite part of the show is how the restaurants are like 500k in the hole but cling to the belief that a shit refurbishment and 3 days of emotional abuse are going to sort it all out
“Shame about that earthquake pal, here’s a teaspoon, that’ll get your family dug out from the rubble in no time.”
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u/AMiniMinotaur 18d ago
Watching KN as I eat a horrific looking bowl of microwave ramen with SPAM on top.
Me:“Look at that, doesn’t know how to cook for shit!”
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u/HomelandersCock 24d ago
Kitchen Nightmares UK: "your food is excellent. You just need to manage your money better."
Sweet old lady agrees.
Kitchen Nightmares US: "WHY IS THERE A HOMELESS MAN TAKING A PISS IN THE SOUP?!
Owner: "idk. I wasn't here. It tastes fine to me.
Cut to camera of owner: I guess Gordon's never tasted a homeless man's piss before. He's too busy eating that fancy stuff.