History WhatAnIdiot / KitchenNightmares

'''You'd Expect:''' Doug to actually taste the sampler, if for no other reason than to get an idea of what the dish he's meant to be cooking that night is meant to taste like.\\

'''Instead:''' The owner does nothing to check the food stocks, and Ramsay predictably finds moldy, rotting and slimy food, up to and including rotten meat and vegetables, in most episodes of the series. When confronted with this, the owner will often proclaim that they never believed such a thing was possible.

'''You'd Expect:''' After an owner(s) calls out to Gordon Ramsay for help, they'd fully embrace his changes. Gordon is not only a prominent television personality, he's also one of the highest-ranking Michelin star chefs and owns multiple successful restaurants. This is a huge opportunity to have a triumphant restaurant practically overnight.\\

These moments of idiocy are enough to make [[Creator/GordonRamsay Chef Ramsay]] lose his [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] mind.

* Plenty of restaurant owners are so convinced that their concept is flawless that they can't do corrections or [[CantTakeCriticism accept criticism]] to make the restaurant better suit the local/regional demands. As most episodes of the series start, the business is bleeding money due to a combination of diner discontent with the food, unappealing marketing/decor, poor sanitary standards and/or bad leadership.\\

* Plenty of restaurant owners are so convinced that their concept is flawless that they can't make corrections or [[CantTakeCriticism accept criticism]] to make the restaurant better suit the local/regional demands. As most episodes of the series start, the business is bleeding money due to a combination of diner discontent with the food, unappealing marketing/decor, poor sanitary standards and/or bad leadership.\\

'''The Result:''' Gordon is clearly looking for any excuse to get Doug and his sous-chef Charles fired after that point -- which the two are kind enough to provide by completely screwing up that night's service, and being generally dismissive and contemptuous of Ramsay's advice. Sure enough, the next morning, Doug and Charles find themselves out of their jobs.

'''You'd Expect:''' Doug to actually taste the sampler, if for no other reason than to get a better idea of what the dish he's meant to be cooking that night is meant to taste like.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Sebastian to stick with Gordon's menu for a while and see how it pans out. Having a "unique" menu isn't going to matter much if nobody's ordering anything from it.\\

'''The Result:''' Gordon is clearly looking for any excuse to get Doug and his sous-chef Charles fired after that point -- which the two are kind enough to provide by completely screwing up that night's service, and being generally dismissive and contemptuous of Ramsay's advice. Sure enough, the next morning, Doug and Charlie find themselves out of their jobs.

'''Even Worse:''' A few owners partially or completely reverse the changes after Gordon's visit and suffer for it.

'''Instead:''' Samy harasses the customers and refuses to let them out unless they pay for their food, ''which they never even received''. Amy overhears this and threatens [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem calling the police to arrest them if they don't pay up]]. This goes FromBadToWorse when the customers make their way to the door but [[MyWayOrTheHighway Samy blocks their exit, physically preventing them from leaving]]. A stagehand has to break up the fight while Amy dials 911. The police arrive and force the restaurant to close for the night. Nobody is arrested, but the producers wind up paying for everyone's meals.

** Just to demonstrate that the stupidity of chefs knows no geographic bounds, Gordon orders Tim, the head chef of Bonaparte's, to cook him a sampler of his signature dish, scallops with ham and black pudding.\\

* In "Burger Kitchen", the titular restaurant's owners, Alan and Gen Saffron, took £250,000 of their son Daniel's inheritance to finance their failing business without telling him about it or giving him any choice in the matter. Daniel is understandably furious with the pair of them as a result of this.\\

'''The Result:''' This leads to Gordon telling Sebastian that he's never met anyone he believes in as little as him, resulting in a massive fight between the two. Even after he returns to the restaurant after recovering himself and goes ahead with Gordon's menu for the rest of the night, Sebastian continues to stay with his menu following Gordon's visit, and [[LaserGuidedKarma is rewarded by the restaurant eventually closing]].

* After forcing the staff at Seascape to clean up the filthiest kitchen he'd ever seen on the show until that point, Gordon announces that they'll be featuring a striped bass special on that night's menu, and cooks a sampler for the owners and head chef, Doug, to taste.\\

'''The Result:''' Gordon is clearly looking for any excuse to get Doug and his sous chef Charlie fired after that point -- which the two are kind enough to provide by completely screwing up that night's service, and being generally dismissive and contemptuous of Ramsay's advice. Sure enough, the next morning, Doug and Charlie find themselves out of their jobs.

'''Additionally:''' A few owners partially or completely reverse the changes after Gordon's visit and suffer for it.

'''You'd Expect:''' After an owner(s) calls out to Gordon Ramsay for help, they'd fully embrace his changes. Gordon is not only a prominent television personality, he's also one of the highest-ranking Michelin star chefs and owns multiple successful restaurants. This is a huge opportunity to have a successful restaurant practically overnight.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' After an owner(s) calls out to Gordon Ramsay for help, they'd fully embrace his changes. Gordon is not only a prominent television personality, he's also one of the highest-ranking Michelin star chefs and also owns multiple successful restaurants. This is a huge opportunity to have a successful restaurant practically overnight.\\

* Plenty of restaurant owners are so convinced that their concept is flawless that they can't make corrections or [[CantTakeCriticism accept criticism]] to make the restaurant better suit the local/regional demands. As most episodes of the series start, the business is bleeding money due to a combination of diner discontent with the food, poor marketing/decor, poor sanitary standards and/or poor leadership.\\

* Plenty of restaurant owners are so convinced that their concept is flawless that they can't make corrections or accept criticism to make the restaurant better suit the regional demands. As most episodes of the series start, the business is bleeding money due to a combination of diner discontent with the food, poor marketing[=/=]decor, poor sanitary standards and[=/=]or poor leadership.\\

* In "Park's Edge," two friends open a restaurant despite little experience. They fail to do the research and end up getting in trouble with the law for their violations.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' They apologize to the community and hire a lawyer to help them make sure they know all the zoning laws and what they need permits for.\\
'''Instead:''' Richard accuses the community of singling them out for being two minority business owners in a majority-white neighborhood, angering the residents even further.

* In "Parks Edge," two friends open a restaurant despite little experience. They fail to do the research and end up getting in trouble with the law for their violations.\\

These moments of idiocy are enough to make [[Creator/GordonRamsay Chef Ramsay]] lose his [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] mind.