History Series / KitchenNightmares

* NamesTheSame: In the U.K. series, the married owners of the Sandgate Hotel are named Peter and Lois, the same as the two lead married animated characters on Series/FamilyGuy.

* MissingEpisode: Due to legal reasons with the new owners, the season three, eipsode fourteen of "Oceana" isn't available for streaming.

** Gordon likes to remind people that '''"I'VE EATEN HERE!!"'''

* ButNowIMustGo: Chef Ramsay sometimes has this effect when he's finally fixed the restaurant, but the owner(s) wish he could stay longer.

*** Referring to food that's previously been frozen as "fresh frozen"; for Gordon this demonstrates the owner's lack of common sense in preserving uncooked food and exposes them as liars when they claim to have the freshest food available; a surprisingly large number of restaurants have made this mistake.

*** The Seascape episode saw a chef refuse Gordon's cooking, the first time it's ever happened to him. He is, to say the least, not pleased.

* AllForNothing: For all the work Gordon puts into some restaurants, most end up shuttering anyway. In some cases, the owners revert back to their old ways as soon as he leaves; sometimes minor, sometimes drastically. [[note]] Reports show around a 40 percent success rate for the restaurants that Gordon has visited. Competing show Series/RestaurantImpossible has around a 30 percent success rate for comparison. [[/note]]

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Andy, the head chef and owner of Le Bistro. While he's is [[GrumpyBear extremely dour]] throughout the episode, and specializes in French cuisine, he's actually [[BritishStuffiness British]].

** There's also Joseph Cerniglia, who repaid his wife's immense love and support by cheating on her with a waitress (Jessica). It ended very, ''very'' badly for him, to say the least.

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Andy, the head chef and owner of Le Bistro. While he's is [[GrumpyBear extremely dour]] throughout the episode, and specializes in French cuisine, he's actually [[TheMeanBrit British]].

** Sebastian [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that "Sebastian's" doesn't have a menu, it has a "concept"! It's "unique", which seems to be more important in Sebastian's mind than being delicious.
** Joe, the owner of "Mill Street Bistro" also insisted items that were available, but not on the menu are called "Features", not "Specials".

** This sometimes happens after the fact. A number of restaurants (such as Maggie's and Love's Fish Restaurant in the UK version, and Lela's and Peter's in the US version) pulled themselves together, followed Ramsay's instructions to the hilt, and enjoyed some initial success... only to go out of business anyway when their financial backers pulled the rug from underneath them during the 2008 recession, or the restaurant property was seized for failing to pay taxes.

** This sometimes happens after the fact. A number of restaurants (such as Maggie's and Love's Fish Restaurant in the UK version, and Lela's and Peter's in the US version) pulled themselves together, followed Ramsay's instructions to the hilt, and enjoyed some initial success... only to go out of business anyway when their financial backers pulled the rug from underneath them during the credit crunch, or the restaurant property was seized for failing to pay taxes.

* BerserkButton: Gordon has several:
** One word: {{Pride}}. He really hates people who boast that their food is the best in the world, right in the face of a 13-star Michelin chef... aka [[BlasphemousBoast insulting one of the Gods of culinary arts]]. Gordon uses BrutalHonesty to make them see [[MockMillionaire the truth of their businesses' condition]].
** ''Do not lie to Gordon Ramsay.'' Even if the truth is something you know he won't like (the food isn't fresh, the kitchen isn't clean, etc.), lie to him and he will call you out on it. And if you try doubling down on a lie after he's already learned the truth... nice knowing you.
** Mistreatment of wait staff will always set him off. Granted, some of the restaurants' wait staff are the OnlySaneMan ready to tell Gordon the truth about the restaurant.
** He hates it when chefs drink on the job because alcohol shifts focus (resulting in bad preparation) and can affect the chef's sense of taste, on top of the serious issue of alcoholism being rampant among chefs. Gordon also despises alcohol and alcoholics on a personal level, since his [[AbusiveParents own father was an abusive drunkard.]]
** He doesn't like it when men disrespect their mothers. In the "El Greco" episode, for example, it looked like he was about to strike the head chef after the chef cursed out his mother.
** Workers coming in on their free time is a ''huge'' no-no to him, as he feels it disrupts discipline (how are you going to respect your boss when you were out drinking with him last night?) and intimidates customers with the wrong message (that the business prefers its own workers over its own customers).
** To lesser extents: separating wait staff/front of house from the kitchen staff (to him, staff is staff, no matter their role, and waiters are just as important as the cooks and chefs), staff that are too casual and/or lax on the job (he doesn't even like smiling or joking on-the-job, as food work really ''is'' SeriousBusiness if you want to keep afloat), and out-of-place cuisine (such as, in the case of the Sandgate Hotel, New Zealand-style BBQ instead of the seafood and Brit/French fusion dishes the region is known for).
** He ''always'' dislikes oversize complicated menus (Sebastian learned this the hard way) and will always make sure there's a redesign towards affordability of "fresh local produce".
** God help you if Ramsay finds you've cross contaminated raw meat with cooked meat; this is a one-way ticket to automatic shutdown. In Barefoot Bob's when he discovers raw pork next to hot wings he absolutely goes ''ballistic.''
** Referring to food that's previously been frozen as "fresh frozen"; for Gordon this demonstrates the owner's lack of common sense in preserving uncooked food and exposes them as liars when they claim to have the freshest food available; a surprisingly large number of restaurants have made this mistake.
** Relatedly, using pre-frozen food when fresh produce is readily available; Gordon has even had to point this out to restaurants in towns with a thriving fishing or farming trade. The episode "Jack's Waterfront" in particular sees Gordon utterly flabbergasted that the eponymous seafood restaurant is buying frozen fish from the store and microwaving it rather than do business with the fishermen who work ''mere feet from their front door''.
** The Seascape episode saw a chef refuse Gordon's cooking, the first time it's ever happened to him. He is, to say the least, not pleased.
** ''Never'' accuse Gordon of staging or otherwise faking things for the show. Not only was he ready to [[RageQuit walk out]] of Blackberry's when he was accused of planting a dead mouse he found, he successfully sued a tabloid for libel when they published claims from Bonaparte's former owner that Ramsay had staged the conditions of her restaurant.

** Chefs not taking dietary or health issues seriously is a major one for him. In "Mama Maria's" when he discovers that pork is in sauce being served to vegetarian diners he's ''NOT'' happy.
** Gordon gets annoyed by [[DagwoodSandwich excessively large sandwiches]]. When he encounters one, he'll often descontruct it and eat it with a knife and fork.

** In the ''The Burger Kitchen'' visit, the owner criticized the chef's burger, saying that it was cooked medium rather than medium-rare. However, the amount of juice seen leaking from the burger that the owner made showed that his burger was rare, at best.

** In "Zayna's Flaming Grill", co-owner Fayza seems to be nothing but a chronic liar, and is called out for this constantly. More often than not, the actual truth is shown to the the complete opposite of what she claims. She claims the rest of the staff do no work, that her food is fresh, and even lies about thawing meat in hot water, among many other fibs. It's unclear whether she is deliberately lying, or if she is possibly suffering from the early stages of dementia; what is known is that after the episode aired, she sold her half of the restaurant and left the business.

* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Due to Ramsay's caustic, confrontational approach, some chefs/owners (especially younger, and bigger, guys) will try to physically intimidate or even threaten Ramsay. This is invariably his response. He even [[BadassBoast tells them to go for it if they really want to]]. Gordon has a black belt in tae kwon do, however, so heaven help anyone who would genuinely try to engage in an actual fight with the man.