History Recap / KitchenNightmaresS6E11MillStreetBistroPart1

* TurnInYourBadge: Gordon Ramsay jokes about this when he says "turn in your badge" to members of the serving staff who have been made by the owner of the restaurant to wear ridiculous nametags.

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* TurnInYourBadge: Gordon Ramsay jokes about this when he says "turn in your badge" to members of the serving staff who have been made by the owner of the restaurant to wear ridiculous nametags.

* TurnInYourBadge: Gordon Ramsay jokes about this when he says "turn in your badge" to members of the serving staff who have been made by the owner of the restaurant to wear ridiculous nametags.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Joe insisted items that were available, but not on the menu are called "Features", not "Specials".

Gordon heads to Norwalk, Ohio, in America's farming heartland, for the first of two visits to the Mill Street Bistro. There he encounters Joe Nagy, one of the most pretentious restaurant owners he has ever met.

* BerserkButton: Joe gets unreasonably ''furious'' about Gordon handing him back the raw micro-carrot he had used as a garnish on one dish.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Joe insists that his restaurant is the best cooking anywhere between Los Angeles and New York. He plants fake positive reviews of his restaurant online. He fails to see anything that's wrong with his cooking, despite him making amateurish mistakes. His food is deliberately overpriced because he wants to feel upscale. He expects Ramsay to go around town promoting the restaurant because he feels the only problem it has is lack of publicity. When Ramsay presents to him complaints about the food from customers, Joe becomes sarcastic (though he never badmouths customers in front of them). Joe considers himself an equal to Gordon Ramsay. When it becomes clear Ramsay refuses to give in and do as Joe pleases, Joe suddenly goes quiet as he's cooking and ignores Ramsay. Not learning a thing after Mill Street Bistro closes down, he opens another restaurant with an identical approach. [[note]]The Maple City Tavern, Joe's second restaurant, closed down at an unknown date between 2016 and 2017. [[/note]]
* TurnInYourBadge: Gordon Ramsay jokes about this when he says "turn in your badge" to members of the serving staff who have been made by the owner of the restaurant to wear ridiculous nametags.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Joe of "Mill Street Bistro" insists that his restaurant is the best cooking anywhere between Los Angeles and New York. He plants fake positive reviews of his restaurant online. He fails to see anything that's wrong with his cooking, despite him making amateurish mistakes. His food is deliberately overpriced because he wants to feel upscale. He expects Ramsay to go around town promoting the restaurant because he feels the only problem it has is lack of publicity. When Ramsay presents to him complaints about the food from customers, Joe becomes sarcastic (though he never badmouths customers in front of them). Joe considers himself an equal to Gordon Ramsay. When it becomes clear Ramsay refuses to give in and do as Joe pleases, Joe suddenly goes quiet as he's cooking and ignores Ramsay. Not learning a thing after Mill Street Bistro closes down, he opens another restaurant with an identical approach. [[note]]The Maple City Tavern, Joe's second restaurant, closed down at an unknown date between 2016 and 2017. [[/note]]

* LongSpeechTeaTime: Whenever Gordon bruised his ego, Joe would go on lengthy rants to staff and customers alike as if they were his psychiatrists about how he's so much better than Ramsay, with no one being particularly interested in his prattling.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: Joe is an example of this, alongside [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial outright denial]]. When Amy tells Joe that the Elk Medallion is too tough to even chew for Ramsay, and they charge an outrageous ''$35.00'' for the elk on top of that, Joe eats it himself and says "[Ramsay] is dead wrong, elk is gonna have a bite, gonna have a chew, it's characteristic of it, it's never gonna change. That is a tender piece of elk." In fact, Joe said, that at his expense, he would go to one of Ramsay's restaurants that serve elk and he'd demand instructions on how elk should be made.

* InterspeciesRomance: Ramsay makes a few jokes about this when Joe introduces him to his pet goat, and remarks that said goat is "jealous" when it tries to headbutt Ramsay.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The staff listen with utter glee as Gordon verbally tears Joe to pieces.

* CordonBleughChef: Gordon doesn't know how to react when served a quesadilla stuffed with elk meat.

* BlatantLies: Joe claims to be "self-taught by the greatest European chefs." Gordon seems to brush off the oxymoron in that statement, but it becomes clearly apparent when Gordon actually tries the food. Later on, when Gordon actually talks to Joe about Joe's food, Joe tries to [[VerbalBackpedaling backpedal and say "I didn't fucking tell you that!" when Gordon points out that statement of Joe's about being taught by the greatest chefs of Europe and we see a flashback from earlier proving Joe to be a liar]]. In addition, Joe convinced Gordon, at the beginning, that all of the meat cooked at his restaurant comes from his personal ranch, but Gordon soon fails to find any of it in the kitchen's storage.

* BerserkButton: Joe gets unreasonably ''furious'' about Gordon handing him back the raw micro-carrot he had used as a garnish on one dish.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The staff listen with utter glee was Gordon verbally tears Joe to pieces.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The staff listen with utter glee was Gordon verbally tears Joe to pieces.

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