History Recap / KitchenNightmaresS5E6BurgerKitchenPart1

* SmallNameBigEgo: Owner Alan is convinced that Yelp reviewers are actually part of a larger conspiracy to deliberately ruin the reputations of restaurants like his. Not surprising, considering that there are some people who are critical of people abusing the ratings system on Yelp.

* BumblingDad: Alan on so many levels. He took $250,000 out of his son's trust fund (without his knowledge/permission) to buy a restaurant he had no idea how to run. And he was confused as to why his son resented him. Oh, and at one point he gives Gordon a copy of a book he wrote about how horribly his own father treated him as a child; he never puts two and two together until Gordon explicitly spells it out for him later.

In the first of an explosive two-part special, Gordon tries to turn around the fortunes of Los Angeles restaurant, the Burger Kitchen. It's only been open for 16 months but has already changed its menu more than 10 times, as well as going through 10 chefs and 10 waitresses, and owner Alan has spent his son's inheritance on the restaurant without permission, leading to much family conflict.

* DysfunctionalFamily: The episode featured a family that [[AbusiveParents treated their son like absolute crap]]. On top of that, they pretty much stole $250,000 from him to finance the restaurant in the first place.

* DagwoodSandwich: The Cowboy Burger, which was a full-pound patty whose vegetables and bun were roughly half of its diameter. Gordon could not figure how to eat it, and he made it clear to the waitstaff with his gestures.

* BumblingDad: Alan on so many levels. He took $250,000 out of his son's trust fund (without his knowledge/permission) to buy a restaurant he had no idea how to run. And he was confused as to why his son resented him. Oh, and at one point he gives Gordon a copy of a book he wrote about how horribly his own father treated him as a child; he never puts two and two together until Gordon explicitly spells it out for him later.

!!Tropes