Why Kitchen Nightmares Was Actually a Failure.
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SOURCES:
List of restaurant status (not the most updated):
https://realitytvupdates.com/kitchen-nightmares-updates/
https://www.kitchennightmaresupdates.com/p/all-kitchen-nightmares-updates.html
https://www.realitytvrevisited.com/2013/01/list-of-all-episodes-posts.html?m=1#KNUK
https://justnje.com/kitchen-nightmares-all-the-restaurants-still-open-in-2022/
Why Gordon canceled KN: https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/gordon-ramsay-regrets-ending-kitchen-nightmares-article-1.3414375
Oceana cliffnotes: https://www.realitytvrevisited.com/2011/11/us-season-4-oceana.html
National Restaurant Association Stat: https://www.businessinsider.com/many-restaurants-on-kitchen-nightmares-have-closed-2014-6
Why the Kitchen Nightmares restaurants close (opinion pieces):
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/241626
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-restaurants-on-Kitchen-Nightmares-fail-after-the-show
https://www.mashed.com/220696/the-real-reason-so-many-kitchen-nightmares-restaurants-fail/
Behind the scenes info: https://www.mashed.com/121110/untold-truth-kitchen-nightmares/
Blackberry’s Cliffnotes: https://www.realitytvrevisited.com/2011/11/us-season-5-blackberrys.html
Amy’s Baking Company: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4496056/gordon-ramsay-kitchen-nightmares-star-amy-unrecognisable/
Amy’s Baking Company’s Insta: https://www.instagram.com/amysbakingcompany/?hl=en
Production member’s testimonials: https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-produce-a-single-episode-of-Kitchen-Nightmares
How much of KN is staged:
https://www.ranker.com/list/kitchen-nightmares-is-fake/mariel-loveland
https://www.distractify.com/p/is-kitchen-nightmares-scripted
https://www.eater.com/2013/5/14/6434393/is-everything-on-kitchen-nightmares-totally-fake
Failure rate: https://www.restaurantowner.com/public/Restaurant-Failure-Rates-Recounted-Where-Do-They-Get-Those-Numbers.cfm#:~:text=At%20the%20end%20of%2010,by%20our%20television%20star%20chef.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2017/01/29/no-most-restaurants-dont-fail-in-the-first-year/?sh=65f209eb4fcc
Great recession and restaurants: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/recession-took-a-bite-of-restaurant-sales/
Eps Featured:
Finn McCool’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HA6bOX2eZs&list=ELZ4cE1SFzl6BVYIE45iEzFw
Blackberry’s:
Fiesta Sunrise:
Amy’s Baking Company:
tags: #kitchennightmares #gordonramsay
@ADHD_Samurai
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Handsome? He looks like he's perpetually smelling a fart.
@b3lla.t0mioka
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
They say that their restaurant is bad and don’t know why it’s failing.But, when Gordon points it out and tries to help them it’s a problem..😒
@aaroniouse
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Obviously if you don't have cost control, you're screwed…
@aaroniouse
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I love you! And how you trolled Jordan Peterson..
@12martin12rojas
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I feel like all restaurants in the show were doomed to fail, I mean that's why they picked to do the show. So the fact 20 percent still remain is impressive
@OllieElizabeth
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
McCool is likely a fake name OR this guy is Scottish and not Irish (or maybe a mix) because that is a 100% Scottish name. Mac (or Mc) (as in MacDonald/McDonald) is a Scottish Gaelic prefix meaning "son of". The Irish equivalent is O' (as in O'Connor or O'Hara).
Source: I'm of Scottish descent and half my grandparents have a name starting with Mac lol
@organtea4444
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Watching this while cooking macaroni
@PinkesPommes-di1cn
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
21:03 "from the start" laufey reference???
@Hilz28
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Ya, no. Amy couldn't bake. At Amy's BAKING company. All of those desserts were brought it.
So even that she couldn't manage 🤦
@Ben-f7k5g
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Reality TV….all staged all fake
@drewcampolito3409
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Amy is an icon
@timrudolph3972
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Nearly all the restaurants featured had no business being in the food business. From self-indulgent owners to average cooks thinking they are Georges Perrier. Sure, some of the pushback was staged, but you know humans, and most folks went back to their previous routines.
@ArchandrielFirstofhisname
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
No, they over book and fill the restaurant. TO yes put stress on the team like a machine. To see what is broken and where things fail. How else can you get reliable information. They are usually empty failing, they dont have the people needed to fill.
Its never hidden that the locals find out he is in town. I guess it could be possible more show up then was wanted, but that is also a good test on restaurants.
@ArchandrielFirstofhisname
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Usually an episode is 7 days . It feels like the day after , but usually isnt.
@ArchandrielFirstofhisname
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
They are already failures by the point he films
@bradchappell5268
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Were you on the show
@debgib007
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
You holding a Microphone throughout the entire video like some sort of a Rockstar, was Very distracting and annoying.
@Jay-kk3dv
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
The british version is less insane
@DulledAxe
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
The horse is already dead, Gordon can try to bring it back to life and running again but if it doesn't work? Well what did anyone expect? The horse is already dead.
@shaun9981
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Surprise, surprise! TV show makes up things and edits in a way that adds controversy! Well I never……!
@KenAdams-mb9fw
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
why tf even people watch this garbage, dead eyed creator. She's not adding anything new to the story. People are pathetic making idiots famous.
@angryisaac2560
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Kitchen Nightmares was never about making restaurants better. The best way to make restaurants better is to let the ones with horrible food and dumb owners close. That's how capitalism works! No, Kitchen Nightmares is performance art designed to let Ramsey play the part of the angry foul mouthed chef genius. It is all about stroking Ramsey's ego. Having said all that, it is still very entertaining.
@SDG-trca
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Considering the conditions in which those filthy places were before Gordon Ramsay stepped in, a 20% rate of restaurants saved and still open is certainly not a failure.
@wyskass861
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
FFS people, it's a reality TV show.. The restaurants chosen were for maximum interpersonal drama because people want that. The restaurant "fixing" is secondary and in fact irrelevant. I thought we understood reality TV by this time.
@Al___
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
23:11 it sounds like "it's fart"😭😭😭
@johanalejandrolopezarias
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
The majority of the owners or managers of those restaurants were naricicists. It is impossible to solve anything unless they are fired and someone compotent to manage the restaurant is put in charge.
@Hercule2015
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Im not surprised they moved to Israel lmao as if that country needs more evil
@Gerno_
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
9:43 The american incapability of pronouncing anything that is unfamiliar to them will never cease to amaze me
@Crowson151
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
What idiots likes this video
@scarface481
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
ragebait, no way she believes thsi.
@Dkm337
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I think shows on TV's is the quickest way to get fame, and money. no one would have knows who is gordon ramsay if he was a 9 to 5 stuck behind kitchen screaming like a luny if french fries drink a bit more oil. Show is just bland to watch. its the same old, first half owners are dillusional second half is makeover and conclusion is happy ending 50% of the time because some ending has to be the bad apple else how can it be considered a Drama.
@owenpeterson6183
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
2 and a half minutes in and i don’t think i can finish this. If you watched even half those episodes you’d be thanking gordon for stopping those biohazards. Blaming gordon is absurd.
@kamariaspeaks
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
You are NOT the only one! I check to see if the restaurant is still open every time! Very well done video and commentary 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@kamariaspeaks
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
Gordon was also sick of getting food poisoning!!!
@lorddrayvon1426
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I love how they don’t have the same narrator as Hell’s Kitchen, Arthur Smith instead of Jason Thompson, but they clearly have the same sound designer for both shows.
My opinion, Ramsey’s shows are less scripted and more manipulated; especially in the editing bay. For example, in HK Season 2 Episode 4, Tom Pauley gets an earful for burning some duck when garage was the one who actually did it. You can see it in the Raw And Uncut stuff online. Why was it changed? Because the entire episodes is spent dunking on Pauley before his elimination. It’d the little things, not really the big things
@jgunn774
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
80% of restaurants PERIOD, fail. So the fact that he took failing businesses up to the same level IS a success
@juukoisaac9421
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I don't think it's his fault when they fail. In the end, it's just like a business. All depends on the bosses.
@K4man84
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
I wanted to like this so bad. Until your climate bull shit.
@forgot7en
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
11:40 I REFUSE to believe Amy baked a single one of those cakes. She was absolutely negligent in the kitchen, all the food was terrible, and she deliberately made something really spicy while saying quote "I hope it hurts him" but by some miracle, she just so happens to be an incredible baker? Not to mention the constant lying and ramblings of an insane narcissist? Hell no! I'll believe the cakes she served were delicious, but there's no way in hell she made them.
@forgot7en
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
1:13 Ah yes, my favorite month. SPEMPEMEBER. It's better than Septmember.
@Samuel-d8c2j
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
That was a good video
@ad206
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
24:11 Whoa, whoa. Fair use. This might get pulled down!
@JimmyJames10-k7v
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
this video doesn’t deserve 3 million views
@GMGz
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
From my years of watching both Kitchen Nightmares and Restaurant Impossible. If the owners say they're 4 or less months from closing. They have very minuscule chance of making a comeback. 5 or more months generally give owners enough time for either Ramsey's or Robert Irvine's changes a chance to produce profits
@ThrillerTimeYT
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
missed the opperstunity to title this video " Why kitchen nightmares was a nightmare"
@Ari-rq3no
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
It's obviously 100% fake.
Imagine you're making a home movie & inviting Robert F De Niro to advise you. & you act like THIS.
It makes ZERO sense
@winterburden
March 31, 2026 at 8:10 pm
A really nice old family restaurant called Firenze's near me closed permanently about a month after he was there.
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