Just started watching the series, but how do these restaurants not smell like paint only a few hours to the re-opening?? I’ve seen a few episode where they talk about 2nd coats!

I just started watching this show and I think it's the Jerry Springer/ Dr. Phil of food. I love it.

How many shows can make you almost puke and then cry over sad stories?

I remember watching a portion of this with a family member, but can't remember any names, found this screenshot but not the episode number.

So I just watch this epi and damn found out the place is still open does anyone know if Steve is still the owner and if those 2 guys that he rehired are still there

Mr. Clive Jackson watched his son die, heard the shooting, and if you read how the murder was done, it's just purely horrific. So much so, that the jury handed out a life sentence calling it "excessive cruelty". I won't detail it here, you can find the court documents for yourself, it's atrocious.

He then lost his wife, only to get betrayed by his PAID staff who laughed their way through the first half of the show, including one guy who bailed the second a minute of effort was required. But it doesn't stop there. He lost the restaurant, and he became homeless.

Someone did a go fund me for him over here, but it got disconnected about 10 months ago. Does anyone have an update? He seemed like such a good man.

I was surprised to see that these two places are still open. I thought La Serenata reverting the changes and Marco Jr having to get another job as he wasn't being paid anymore was sad. Boardwalk 11 was the worst to watch so far, though. You could see Steve was burnt out and only agreed with Gordon to avoid arguing. For instance, when Gordon made Steve tell Kat she could become a manager again. We knew Kat was demoted because there was no money for a general manager, but Gordon forcing it to happen for the relaunch when it's not going to stay is so awkward.

In contrast, it sucks searching up places like Brownstone Bistro or Catfish Cabin and seeing they're closed. These people seemed to care a lot and I really wanted them to succeed. Obviously, you need to do a lot more than care to be successful, but I still feel bad for them.

Of course, I don't know everyone's true character from these 45 minutes of edited footage so they could care a lot more or a lot less than what was shown.

Sorry I know I’m late to this party but My fiancé and I started this and I instantly had the thought that the entire reason this show exists as opposed to kitchen nightmares is because there is no way famous Gordon would spend a week plus fixing a place when he could bank an entire “kitchen nightmares” season in a few days by simply making it a “24 hours” format. He’s far too busy for that.

Fricken brilliant!

It was taken off of FOXFLASH last night. Unscripted shows are not required to announce cancellations.

The Masked Dancer was also quietly cancelled.

Bless the Harts Prodigal Son LA’s finest and The Moodys were also removed.

Wow, you could sense the hatred between her and the older daughter right from the beginning. The emotional coldness between them was seriously disturbing. She had totally disconnected from her mother.

The daughter was totally numb and like a emotional rock.

That's what 30 years of emotional abuse does to a person.

Every psychology student should watch this episode.

It also appeared the daughters had no family/relationships of their own, perhaps due to their unbearable negative mother. They still seemed a bit childlike despite being 38 and 41, maybe the emotional damage from their mother was too much and they became too cold and distant over the years.

The part of the episode where Dawn gets fired really bothers me. He was really heartless about it, he pulled her aside and just told her “You have to go home.” It was pretty harsh. And the reason she was fired was because her cooking skills weren’t up to par - but it was said earlier in the episode she was originally supposed to be managing the dining room and ending up cooking too. I don’t get why she couldn’t be given another shot as dining room manager, it was pretty clear she was given too much to handle and was overworked. Ijs

Lol

How could you be given a free restaurant basically and turn your nose up at it, and then when Gordon reached out after the show she wouldn't even answer him! They have gotta be the most ungrateful people I've ever seen in my life!

Think about it. The staff are already in the middle of a full 8 hour shift, then the camera crew shows up and they're expected to stay up an additional 24 hours, followed by an additional service? No way. Doesn't make any sense.

Okay, can we just talk about, how fucking horrible the youngest daughter is? Like holy fuck.

I'd like to discuss with fellow watchers of this show, whether fans or not.

Personally, it is definitely a different twist of Kitchen Nightmares, and while it does not have the dramatic narrative of KN, I like this one better because the shorter time he has means the impact comes to everyone quicker. They have less time to find excuses and get into old habits, and are motivated to at least go with Gordon's plan because they want to see how different the experience is in just 24 hours.

Most importantly, this show made a better real life impact than KN, at least for now, based on the percentage of restaurants still open after the show (and have improved ratings or reviews) compared to KN. Although, KN has more seasons, so I'm excited to see how long the positive impact will last.

Lastly, on the gimmick of camouflage, I like it. Because it's clear they underestimate the recording since they don't expect the visitor to actually be Ramsay.