Underneath all the shouting, screaming and ranting is a man who cares deeply about those he berates – at least that’s the line the producers of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares would have you believe.

Alas the truth is something different because, once the cameras stop rolling, it looks like they’re left to their own devices and these stories don’t have a happy ending. Gordon might redo the menu and change the décor but he’s obviously failing to provide a framework that leads to long-term success. This from Huffington Post:

[A blog called] “Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Blog” tracks the success and failure of restaurants after they appear on the show. The blog’s careful research reveals that a whopping 61 percent of all the restaurants that have ever been “saved” by Gordon Ramsay are now closed.

Unsurprisingly, the failure rate is highest for restaurants that were featured on the show longest ago; all but two of the restaurants on the first two seasons of the American “Kitchen Nightmares” are now closed. And just six of the 21 restaurants featured on the British version, which ended in 2009, remain open. Of those six survivors, just three are still owned by the same people who owned them when Ramsay stormed through their kitchens.

Now it would be daft to lay the blame squarely at Gordon’s feet, given that the reason he was there in the first place was generally gross mismanagement and a lack of business acumen. That being said it seems the magic wand he waves around is more for the camera than the restaurant itself.

We know Chef appreciates the straight talk so we won’t mince our words – f**k you Gordon, your piece of shite TV show is killing restaurants and you don’t seem to care.

Get the hell out of my kitchen – and off my TV while we’re at it.

[source:huffingtonpost]