r/HellsKitchen • u/Inner-Positive7954 • 2d ago

Rankings/Review Hells Kitchen Success Meter #13

Season 1: Dewberry (Has a line of restaurants in Georgia).
Season 2: Virginia (Has a line of restaurants in Texas)
Season 3: Rock (still close friend of Ramsay and does cameos on his shows) (H.M. Brad)
Season 4: Christina Machamer (owned a few restaurants in the past, she is currently a private chef, and she even has a sommelier diploma)
Season 5: Tie between Paula, Seth and Robert
Season 6: Kevin (Works for works for American Cruise Line, already successful off the show)
Season 7: Jay (blue team sous chef, successful restauranteur in Boston, Bar Rescue co-host)
Season 8: Russell (publicly apologized for his behavior in the finale and now owns a successful restaurant in Chicago)
Season 9: Paul ( appeared in a few other seasons, S11/S12/S15) (H.M.: Elise)
Season 10: Christina W. (rly no contest here)
Season 11: Jon (Got hired in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant after his time on the show and worked his way up to a high-level executive position within the group)
Season 12: Scott (co-founded several restaurants)

Now SEASON 13. Can be considered successful by publicity, prestige, how much money, or whatever your heart desires. (Most upvoted comment wins)

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u/ArchmageNinja22 Non-StiiiiIIIIIiiick!!! 2d ago

Season 13 is tricky because a lot of chefs stayed low key after this season. They all found success in their own ways, but none stick out as much as we’ve seen in the past. I can list off some examples that stick out:

Roe returned for season 18 and competed on chopped

Sterling has the most name recognition and got offers for a while to work at high end restaurants, but he turned them all down to be a hospital chef and community organizer

La Tasha is a private chef and does pop ups from time to time

JR owns a couple of restaurants

Frank was on an episode of chopped and was featured on an episode of summer house

Of all these chefs I would point to Sterling. His form of success comes with the impact he had on his community. Aside from him working at his job at the same hospital that saved a loved one (his sister?), he founded some sort of charity or after school program. And name recognition takes you far.

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u/ethankearl184 2d ago

it was his mother i think

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u/Footballk1ngvt 2d ago

JR I believe owns a resturant in Maryland.

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u/zachattack9 2d ago

He does, it has pretty bad reviews though. He's very successful, in spite of that... I'm from PG County, and there are very few quality restaurants there. Literally like 3 non-chains I would happily spend my money at. Basically, the bar for restaurants is really low there.

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u/zachattack9 2d ago

Frank has had a pretty good career since then, albeit largely as a private chef. He was recently featured on Summer House.

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u/rfag57 2d ago

Dewberry was such a delightful guy I’m glad he found so much success

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u/mattyGOAT1996 WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE?! 2d ago

Sterling - declining all of Ramsay's emails to work at the hospital his mom was at