Kitchen Nightmares is a TV series starring Gordon Ramsay, Arthur Smith, and Kim Seeley. Gordon Ramsay visits struggling restaurants across America and spends one week trying to help them become successful.
Release Date: September 2007
10. Hot Potato Cafe
Air Date: 29 Jan. 2010Season 3, Episode 1
The only thing “Hot” about the Hot Potato Café are the flames it is going down in, with a family trying to run their café but unsure of how to even do it and with zero passion, and a loss in costumers after a bad review.
9. Dillons
Air Date: 19 Mar. 2008Season 1, Episode 2
Gordon’s biggest challenge is fixing Dillon’s, a multi-cultural restaurant in New York City that is located directly across the street from one of Gordon’s own eateries. Dillon’s is suffering from an identity crisis due to its menu serving various types of cuisine, a filthy kitchen, an incompetent staff, and three different owners, none of whom are doing a good job.
8. Sebastian’s
Air Date: 7 Nov. 2007Season 1, Episode 6
Sebastian’s has 20, ah, 21, maybe 23 unique failure combinations, and terrible pizza. Can Ramsay get through Chef Sebastian Di Modica thick skull or is the final combination of closure unavoidable?
7. Mill Street Bistro, Part 2
Air Date: 8 Mar. 2013Season 6, Episode 12
Chef Ransay’s quest to help a tyrannical bistro owner continues.
6. Peter’s
Air Date: 24 Dec. 2007Season 1, Episode 1
Gordon visit Peter’s, an Italian restaurant in West Babylon, NY, that is in financial trouble due to the fact that the owner, Peter, spends most of the money on expensive suits, fancy cars, etc. Also not helping matters are a feuding kitchen/wait staff and frequent visits by debt collectors.
5. Mill Street Bistro, Part 1
Air Date: 1 Mar. 2013Season 6, Episode 11
Chef Ramsay finds himself at war with an arrogant restaurant owner on part one.
4. Burger Kitchen: Part 2
Air Date: 11 Nov. 2011Season 5, Episode 8
And now, the conclusion. Will Burger Kitchen stay afloat or will it end in a spectacular failure?
3. Amy’s Baking Company
Air Date: 10 May 2013Season 6, Episode 16
A couple finds it hard to listen to Chef Ramsay’s advice.
2. Charlie’s
Air Date: 17 Feb. 2012Season 5, Episode 14
One mother and one sister have their money and a house on the line if Charlie’s cannot succeed, leaving the other sister to step up to the plate or watch everything be destroyed.
1. Burger Kitchen: Part 1
Air Date: 4 Nov. 2011Season 5, Episode 7
Burger Kitchen is run by an incompetent owner who used money from his son’s trust fund to keep it going, but between that, a frustrated chef, bad and undercooked food, over five thousand in loses each month, and the annoying wife/co-owner, things are about to go nuclear…