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for today's video we're going to discuss some more restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares and
reveal how they're doing now so without further ado let's get right into the content guys leones
family-run business leones was opened in 1996 by a woman named rose and for a while
business was good falling into a coma following some complications from an operation for over
three years her son michael was forced into taking over the restaurant when she finally
returned leons was on the verge of closing down since it had lost a significant amount of money
while it used to be constantly booked because of michael's leadership they barely got any customers
in desperate need of change rose calls out to the legendary chef Gordon Ramsay for some help
meeting first with rose she admits that practically everything about the restaurant
is wrong and she needs his guidance to get back on track introduced to the staff he meets trudy who
explains that there really isn't anyone leading the restaurant rose's son michael mentions that he
only works part-time at the restaurant and then most of the time he sits down during his shift
wanting to taste the food he orders one of everything from the menu which is over 100 dishes
once everything is finally complete he can't tell some of the dishes apart since they look anything
but presentable each dish tastes bland or has way too much garlic and the fish dishes especially
tasted the worst going into the kitchen he notices that the chefs are clearly under trained since
their work space was filthy investigating the walk-in freezer he notices that there is rotten
food cross-contamination and meat and seafood that is improperly stored later on chef Ramsay
gives michael some one-on-one training so at least he can improve his basic cooking skills
over the course of the night Ramsay completely changes the restaurant modernizing the dining
room and installing a new pos system for making orders cutting the menu in half the
kitchen nightmare's host added freshly cooked and modern italian dishes today the business
is still very much open with a good three and a half stars on yelp across 311 unique reviews
two of the chefs that appeared in the show were fired immediately after though michael
was revealed to still work there in a revisiting episode he admits to still only working part-time
at the restaurant and spends the rest of his time in a local bar which angers Ramsay the host gets
him to promise to be a better leader and commit to the restaurant sadly rosemary leone passed away
in april of 2014 but her precious restaurant still lives on rest in peace michonne's allen gay wilson
alongside their daughter natalie michonne wilson owned the restaurant michonne located in georgia
atlanta naming it after their daughter they were hoping that they could one day pass the restaurant
over to her supposedly the staff believes when it was run by al things ran smoothly and people
loved his smoked meats however after suffering from a collapsed lung al became unable to work
and inevitably pass the control over to natalie being a hands-off manager natalie let the standard
slip down to abysmal levels and the restaurant quickly began to lose money with no other options
al decides to reach out to chef Ramsay so he could bring michonne's back to its glory days
upon his arrival Ramsay is actually impressed with the stunning decor of the restaurant which is
extremely rare meeting up with natalie he finds out that she spends most of her time in the back
office doing close to nothing also paying the staff a visit a server named tadisha tells Ramsay
that the only redeeming thing about her boss is that she makes sure that everyone was paid their
wages on time to give the food a try he tries to order some potato salad but it's unavailable since
the chefs can't be bothered to make it seriously finally deciding on some items he gets some
chicken wings which are old and tough the salad he got had a rotten tomato in it and generally
everything was just nasty later going into the kitchen to confront the cooks he finds out that
there isn't a head chef and that everything but the salad was microwaved poking around you find
some plastic tubs filled with hundreds of chicken wings that were cooked days ago not impressed
Ramsay relays his information to natalie and tries to get her to step up for once and take the lead
of a restaurant agreeing to do so the famous chef makes some valuable changes to the restaurant by
first appointing a head chef and then improving the menu sadly however it seems like not much
has changed since Ramsay left since the reviews on yelp were nothing but poor with people complaining
about their horrible service long wait and nasty food it completely closed down in early 2018 and
most likely will never come back so much for passing on the business to natalie park's edge
having no experience whatsoever owners richard and george decided to get into the restaurant business
though since the food is over complicated and the staff has too much work to handle
things have only been tough what's worse in the few years that the place has been open the
health department has forced them to shut down twice for the slew of violations they've made
richard and george send out a call to gordon ramsay for some aid arriving and sitting down with
the owners they admit that they've made mistakes with the locals but claim their food is excellent
yeah right wanting to put this claim to the test he ordered some grilled salad some oysters and
sesame salmon predictably he's unimpressed with the food describing it to be inedible
poorly presented and dry eventually ramsay comes to learn that george went straight into opening
the restaurant after finishing culinary school which makes him say that he shouldn't be running
a kitchen it doesn't help that the staff were inexperienced as well especially under
george's horrible leadership skills watching the dinner service the customers seem unhappy
with the food and most of the dishes are sent back to the kitchen this makes richard retreat
outside in smoke in order to avoid complaints since he has no idea how to deal with them
additionally some customers had to wait so long for food that they got fed up and just walked out
inspecting the kitchen ramsay finds some rotting ingredients and george claims that it's the
staff's fault somehow despite this disaster the owners eventually step up and the famous
chef changes the menu and decorates the restaurant with local arts following the show's intervention
park's edge kept most of the changes made but did return some customer favorites to the menu the
reviews on yelp were very mixed with some people complaining about the service and how the food
can sometimes be a hit or miss nine months after failing a health inspection the restaurant failed
yet another in october of 2011 which worsened its reputation in early 2014 park's edge closed
down after the release ran out in november of 2013. however they were supposed to reopen in
another location which never seemed to happen and maybe it's for the best something odd was
that their website stayed active until 2020 being up for six years after it officially closed down
charlie's italian bistro for this episode of the show gordon ramsay pays a visit to charlie's
italian bistro in la verne california tatiana lave the owner began working at the restaurant
as a waitress and eventually was offered the chance to buy it herself in 2008 not exactly
having the funds to do so she turned to her family in hopes that they could help raise some money
both her mother patty and her sister val helped out by purchasing the restaurant by putting their
houses on the line comically the person who was going to own the restaurant in the first place
tatyana only pledged a thousand dollars what a joke once finally owning charlie's tatiana
did nothing to change the restaurant keeping the same 14 year old name and menu a lot of the staff
feel that tatyana doesn't know how to manage the restaurant and isn't open to any change as well as
is extremely disrespectful clearly her mother and sister are very concerned about the success of the
restaurant since their homes are at risk so they ask for gordon ramsay's help expecting to meet an
owner named charlie ramsay notices that the only person there is tatiana getting it 18 months ago
tatiana bought it from the previous owner named simon who got it from charlie ready to jump
into trying some food chef ramsay is completely disappointed with the disgusting meals he served
wanting to understand why it was so bad he inspects the kitchen and finds that most of
their ingredients are frozen to see the chef's skill levels he challenges them to make the
meatballs from scratch and one of the two succeed forcing tatyana to step up she fires the one who
wasn't able to make some meatballs which was hard since she'd been working with him for 10 years
now that the restaurant was missing a chef ramsay introduces his own chef named jonathan who will
help him find a new one ramsay feels that tatiana should be more involved in the kitchen and teaches
her how to make a pizza and lasagna after seeing the owner's drive to change ramsay does his magic
he revamps the menu and improves the decor once it gets your nightmare staff left jonathan continued
to work with the restaurant for a month and help them find a new chef however in the end charlie's
italian bistro closed down in july of 2012 for reasons that are completely unclear well that'll
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