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channel for today's video we're going to discuss some of the absolute worst restaurants featured on
kitchen nightmares and review how they're doing now so sit back relax and without further ado
let's get right into the content guys Amy's Baking Company in the sixth season of the show Gordon
Ramsay pays a visit to the now infamous Amy's Baking Company hoping to rescue it from closure
owned by Sami Buzaglo and his very "PLEASANT" wife Amy they've spent over 1 million dollars trying to
fulfill their dream of owning a restaurant while sammy runs the front of house amy takes charge of
the kitchen and helps out with some of the cooking even though things were running out just fine in
the beginning business dwindled over time as they started getting poor reviews this was mostly due
to the fact that sami would get very defensive and downright aggressive to anyone who insulted his
wife's cooking he would reportedly tell people to leave for making fair criticisms about the
piss-poor meals they were being served anyway upon Ramsay's eventual arrival to the restaurant he's
initially impressed with how good the pastries on display look heading into the kitchen he notices
that it's completely sterilized almost as if they were going to be performing a surgery
wanting to sample some of the food he tries a slice of amy's cake but she surprisingly brands
as delicious soon after an employee named miranda reveals that she doesn't get any tips since sammy
takes them all for himself despite the fact that this is such a scummy thing to do and
shouldn't be justified whatsoever sammy defends himself by saying that he does most of the work
ordering some pizza burgers and red pepper ravioli ramsay's completely disgusted with what he served
the pizza dough is practically raw the burger buns are soaked in grease and the ravioli has a
putrid smell observing the dinner service ramsay's put in a state of awe witnessing amy continuously
denying that her food is bad to the customers who complain worst of all amy tries firing an
employee named katie for simply asking a question to which sammy tries to stop her from doing so
although katie justifiably decides to quit due to their mistreatments and calls the owners
poisonous vipers a while later amy has a temper tantrum over a glass of water and
places the blame on ramsay for some reason for disrupting the service by the end of the episode
ramsay concludes that the owners are too far gone to be helped and just leaves cancelling the rescue
post kitchen nightmares the restaurant and its owners have gone through so much it's fascinating
for one the restaurant temporarily closed down for reasons that are unclear but then
reopened in may of 2013. one of the employees mentioned earlier named miranda was fired for
hiding a tip a customer had discreetly given her which is beyond ridiculous thanks to the
very revealing coverage in the episode and their actions following the show the owners
received a ton of negative backlash to respond to these comments the owners made a ton of abusive
and insulting posts but ended up regretting it and claimed that they were being hacked
yeah right according to certain reports it was revealed that both owners unsurprisingly had
run-ins with the law amy was convicted for social security fraud to get credit while
sami had drug and trafficking charges at a certain point the owners began to sell merch
with different catch phrases from the show but they're no longer available after the restaurant
closed down in 2015 due to problems with the landlord the couple eventually moved to israel
hilariously in another video on the channel where we discussed amy in the restaurant an
account named Amy Busaglow made insulting remarks and argued with the other viewers in the comments
whether it's an official account is up to you to decide but it does seem to have unseen videos of
Amy baking pastries and playing with her cats so anything is possible old neighborhood restaurant
for a season 7 episode gordon ramsay heads over to the failing old neighborhood restaurant to rescue
it from closure run and owned by a married couple named randy and alexa they purchased it several
decades ago for the first 13 years of business things were performing generally well although
nowadays their profits are abysmal it seems like this is in part due to the fact that the food
quality is degraded over time and the items on the menu are too odd for many of the customers
additionally the decor is heavily dated the wallpaper and furniture is falling apart
and the place is cluttered due to randy's hoarding problem being in a deep pool of debt they call out
to a professional like ramsey for some much needed guidance when he finally arrives the
kitchen nightmare's host is greeted by a mannequin dressed in weird clothing at the reception meeting
with randy he learns that his wife alexa named the mannequin fiona and frequently changes her clothes
weird asking about the last time they updated the menu they said it's around eight months to a year
ago when it's really been closer to two and a half sitting down to place an order for dinner ramsay's
served by a very lovely waitress named kristen curious about the odd smell in the air he asks
where it's coming from and it's revealed that it's emitting from the upholstery of the chairs
what's worse there are tons of flies around the restaurant and the chairs have wheels so they
often roll around while waiting for his order of new orleans barbecue shrimp uk and sea scallops
and a salmon special ramsay learned some very shocking news the staff isn't able to remove
items from the menu that have been there for over 30 years since the owners are clearly incapable
of letting go predictably the food comes back being either drenched in sauce or tasting dry
freezer burnt or just nasty returning for the evening service ramsay inspects around
and finds tons of disgusting things like old candy heaps of dirt and rat droppings taking a
look at the office he notices that it's extremely cluttered and sees old equipment hoarded outside
that's supposedly going to be used as spare parts finding a rat corpse in the cleaning cupboard and
realizing that everything in the kitchen is being cross-contaminated ramsay just forces the kitchen
to close down after a lot of discussion cleaning decluttering and 60 plus thousand dollars of
revamping the restaurant was given a worthy second chance following their appearance on
kitchen nightmares sales certainly improved and randy's hoarding was no longer in the restaurant
however a while after the show aired the reviews they received on yelp seemed to be pretty mixed
most of the negative reviews criticized the service quality and how the food was often
undercooked tripadvisor oddly had mostly positive reviews but the negative ones were practically the
same as on yell 36 years after opening old neighborhood restaurant closed down in may
of 2016 which was pretty expected in its place opened a restaurant called the butchery which
has a solid four stars on yelp due to their fresh and delicious food mama rita's gordon ramsay heads
over to mama rita's in a season 3 episode with the intention of bringing it back on its feet owned by
laura popenfest she decided to open a mexican restaurant naming it after her late grandmother
while the business initially focused on catering customers advisor to open a restaurant since
her cooking and reputation were both great even though the first week went well and yielded tons
of profit the subsequent weeks were nowhere near as successful and the restaurant began to struggle
being 2.2 million dollars in debt and at risk of losing not only her business but her home as well
laura reached out to ramsey for some help upon the famous chef's arrival to mamaritas he's greeted by
a hostess named maggie who's also laura's mother and expresses how he's confused by the name
at the very least ramsay admits that the decor is stunning and then sits down to taste test some of
the food introduced to a waiter named brad he goes over the menu and advises the host on what
dishes not to order since some of them are really dry ordering some tamales that are soaking wet
chimichangas that are filled with dry chicken and a burrito that is completely soggy ramsay's
repulsed with his meals heading into the kitchen to meet the staff ramsay is given a shocking
revelation about the food and it becomes clear why the place is failing they cook all their food
in large batches freeze them in portions and steam them for each order deciding to observe the dinner
service food seems to fly out of the kitchen quickly but the customers are not satisfied
with their meals it doesn't come to much of a surprise since they're basically serving them the
equivalent of tv dinners later on ramsay pulls out tons of trays of frozen food from the freezer and
compares the restaurant to a factory processing plant having over 12 thousand dollars worth of
frozen food the kitchen nightmares host is shocked to see that some of the trays date as far back as
a year ago despite this laura still claims that her food is delicious so ramsay tries to give her
a reality check bringing in some former customers they expressed that the service quality wasn't
what they expected and that the food was just uninspired finally opening her eyes the owner
admits that she hasn't been delivering quality food to her patrons but vowed to change this
after revamping the menu with the help of chef neris maradozian the restaurant was finally able
to relaunch weeks after ramsey and his team left laura made the smart decision of reverting back
to the old menu removing one of the only major changes made regardless of this the restaurant
still managed to get some good reviews on yelp with only a handful of negative ones
unsurprisingly though the restaurant closed down in december of 2010 but laura continued to offer
catering services for a number of years down the line she became the manager of a place called
mission oaks cafe which has average reviews on yelp this business closed down as well in june of
2019 but the reason isn't exactly clear if only she just stuck to ramsay's professional advice
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