First Aired: April 27th, 2004
Status: Ended
Genre: Reality
Network: Channel 4
Summary: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning programme debuted on Channel 4 in 2004.
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. In October 2009 Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with Kitchen Nightmares and would instead work on his other shows.
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Season 6
Episode 5: Barefoot Bob's
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Summary: Chef Ramsay heads to the beachside eatery Barefoot Bob’s in Hull, Massachusetts, but quickly finds himself in a hellish situation. Mark and Lisa, a husband and wife team, opened the grill in the summer of 2004 but have a practically empty restaurant in the winter months.
Episode 6: Olde Hitching Post
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Summary: Chef Ramsay heads to the historic Olde Hitching Post in Hanson, Massachusetts. In 2005 restaurateur Tom Kessaris bought this town fixture to pass on to his oldest daughter, Andrea, but although Andrea was initially excited to fulfill her dream of having her own eatery, her father has never relinquished control to her. He says that she doesn’t know what it takes to run the place. Janice, the manager, acknowledges that he won’t allow his daughter to take charge. The owner is also tough on the staff, who feel that he doesn’t make the best decisions.
Episode 7: Levanti's Italian Restaurant
Air Date: January 9th, 2014
Summary: Chef Ramsay heads to Beaver, Pennsylvania, and finds a brother-and-sister team at war in Levanti’s Italian Restaurant. Dino Fratangeli opened the establishment in 1998 using his father’s life savings. He was not prepared for the immediate success of the business, so his sister, Tina, sold her own flower shop business and went to work helping Dino. But when another restaurant opened down the street, things went south quickly for the brother and sister.
Episode 8: Sam's Mediterranean Kabob Room
Air Date: January 16th, 2014
Summary: Gordon Ramsay travels to a Mediterranean restaurant in Monrovia, California, and within minutes is caught in the middle of the constant fighting among its staff, who have no problem arguing in front of the paying customers. The establishment has been owned and operated by Sam Najjar and his family since 1997.
Episode 9: Nino's Italian Restaurant
Air Date: January 23rd, 2014
Summary: Chef Ramsay heads to the coastal community of Long Beach, California, to save a 54-year-old family restaurant. Immigrant proprietors Inge and Vincenzo ran the restaurant with the intention of ensuring it was the best it could be, but with the onset of dementia at age 88, Vincenzo has separated himself from the eatery.
Episode 10: Mill Street Bistro, Part 1
Air Date: January 30th, 2014
Summary: Gordon Ramsay heads to the heart of farm country in Norwalk, Ohio, where he encounters Joe Nagy, the most pretentious restaurant owner he’s ever met. Joe opened the Mill Street Bistro Bar five years ago after being laid off from his job in food sales. He claims he has the best restaurant fare from New York to Los Angeles, but his staff says he is delusional. He claims the food is fresh, farm-to-table, but his employees know the truth. Many of the products are frozen, and the steak comes from a wholesale club.
Episode 11: Mill Street Bistro, Part 2
Air Date: February 6th, 2014
Summary: Chef Ramsay’s visit to Mill Street Bistro Bar in Norwalk, Ohio, continues, and his head-to-head argument with proprietor Joe Nagy is in full force. After a flare-up over raw onions in the carmelized onion soup, Chef Ramsay opines that Joe is so bound up with ambition, he’s not seeing the heart of the problem.
Episode 13: Prohibitions Grille
Air Date: February 13rd, 2014
Summary: Chef Ramsay heads to the Prohibition Grille in Everett, Washington, a Southern steak house opened in 2008 by professional belly dancer Rishi Brown, who had absolutely no restaurant experience before opening the doors. Instead of learning the business, she hired 30-year veteran Chef Rocky to run the kitchen, but his laziness has led to issues with the quality of the food and complaints from the customers. However, Rishi completely trusts Rocky and is unaware of the problems going on.
Episode 14: Chappy's
Air Date: February 20th, 2014
Summary: Nashville, Tennessee, is the home of country music and also Chappy’s restaurant, a Cajun eatery owned by John “Chappy” Chapman and his wife Starr. The couple opened their first eatery in Mississippi, and it was a huge overnight success. But when it was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, the duo was forced to relocate to Nashville.
Episode 15: Amy's Baking Company
Air Date: February 27th, 2014
Summary: This week Chef Ramsay travels to Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2006 Samy Bouzaglo invested over $1 million in the restaurant so that his wife Amy could explore her passion for the culinary arts. But it has been a difficult road. Amy insists that local bloggers have lied and said her food was disgusting, resulting in a loss of business. In defense of his wife, if a customer complains, Samy tells them to leave the restaurant and not come back. In the meantime, Amy goes by the motto “The customer is not always right.”
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