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for today's video we're going to discuss more restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares and
reveal how they are now so without further ado let's get right into the content guys
sam's mediterranean kebab room owned by sam najar and his family sam's mediterranean kebab room was
a restaurant that gordon ramsay visited in the sixth season of the show working in the
restaurant since 1982 as a busboy he decided to purchase it and become the official owner in 1997.
while things were doing well already it slowly went downhill after the ownership change and
najar was forced to fire most of his staff to reduce costs being 70 thousand dollars in debt and
relying on family members as staff who were bitter about being forced to work at the restaurant they
really needed help and fast calling gordon ramsay over when he finally arrives he's shocked to learn
that all their children work at the business not only this but they work 12 hour shifts a day 7
days a week and it's clear that none of them want to work there anymore having their own dreams and
aspirations Ramsay can tell how miserable they are not being able to pursue them greeting the owner
the situation is made even worse when he finds out that he doesn't even pay his children how
disgusting his reasoning is that he can't afford to pay them wages but he tries to justify it by
saying that they live all at his home for free asking for the owner to rate his food he says it's
a 9 out of 10 and recommends that he orders a lamb shank though scanning through the menu he finds
many spelling errors which is very unprofessional finally deciding on ordering the vegetable combo
which was absolutely dreadful the lamb shank that he described to look anemic aido which is bought
in and a steak which is really dry calling the staff together he tells them exactly how he felt
about the food which was clearly negative and it makes the chef admit that he's given up inspecting
the kitchen he finds moldy food and the walk-in fridge has buckets filled with chopped parsley
bendy celery soft cucumbers and rotting lettuce the following day Ramsay gathers
the children together and explains to them that they should be completely honest with their father
after a lot of tearful conversation Ramsay was finally able to start making some valuable changes
modernizing the overall design revamping the menu and giving it more contemporary mediterranean food
customers were loving the new restaurant months after the kitchen nightmares team
left the children were given time off while najar tried to find new staff however the
restaurant ended up closing down in january 2014 and the owner expressed that appearing
on the show didn't change much while they did receive a surge in business two weeks after the
episode aired it didn't help their long-term business it's not very surprising considering
they got very mixed reviews following the show most complaining about the poor food and service
chappies after hurricane katrina ravaged their successful restaurant john chapman and his wife
star were forced to relocate calling their new restaurant chappies it didn't do very
well and according to the couple it's due to the locals lack of understanding of cajun cuisine
on the other hand their own staff blame jon due to his poor management skills and his humongous ego
for instance there's footage of him kicking out a customer simply because they had to complain about
their salad great service anyway with some clear problems at hand jon calls out to the legendary
chef gordon Ramsay for some aid arriving he meets with john who describes the nashville locals to
not be receptive to the restaurant which perplexes him since supposedly his food is 10 out of 10.
finally ordering some food to put this claim to the test everything predictably takes either bland
watery or dry observing the dinner service he notices that there is an open pot filled with
oysters capped at room temperature Ramsay also catches glimpse of the cook using a pan he cooked
steak with to prepare fish for a pescetarian which is a term jon never heard of asking the
pescatarian customer to explain it to the ignorant owner she says that meat would make her really
sick taking a look at the walk-in freezer he finds yellow mayonnaise that expired over three years
ago moldy and rotting food as well as some cooked and raw meat stored next to each other jon learns
that their food tasted burnt is not authentic cajun is low quality and is way too overpriced
especially considering the bad atmosphere ready to change chef ramsay's time to work his magic
came at last changing the restaurant's decor to make it more modern and reducing the menu
of over 100 items down to 22 contemporary cajun recipes john is not a fan of the makeover however
the staff were really happy with the changes and were in love with the new food after sampling it
weeks after chef ramsay left despite the fact that they were getting really positive
feedback jon decided to revert back to his old ways what's even worse is that this idiotic
owner has given several high-profile interviews expressing that chef ramsay wrecked his business
it doesn't make any logical sense that he would claim this since not even four weeks after the
episode aired he went back to the old menu on yelp things were very split with some customers wanting
the old menu to come back while others praised the new one in the end chappies closed down in june of
2013 since the restaurant was seized by the state due to tax evasion john claimed until the very end
that kitchen nightmares ruined his restaurant but we all know whose fault it really is
mama maria's sal and maria esposito opened an italian restaurant called mama maria's in
1970 which was met with two decades of success that is until their son john took over in 1990
since he was overwhelmed with the amount of work required it didn't exactly help though that he's
an extremely stubborn person who's unwilling to change making him very hard to work with
not really knowing how to fix this horrible mess jon reaches out to the kitchen nightmare's
team for some help when chef ramsay arrives he's unimpressed with the shabby look of the
restaurant especially the signage which is littered with holes entering he meets with
john who explains that all their pizzas are homemade and delicious but that the problem
lies in the lack of clientele due to increased competition meeting with a waitress named lori
she expresses that the true issue is jon's poor sense of leadership ordering some food it's simply
tasteless and dry which leads chef ramsay into believing that the food is frozen heading into
the kitchen to investigate ramsay comes across joe oscar and valentino who work in the kitchen
coming clean jon admits that it takes way too long to make meatballs fresh and their chef comes
out and says that their food is just poor quality during service it comes to ramsay's attention that
one vegetarian customer found a bone in her pasta while another was in the bathroom throwing up
the patron was so incredibly sick that they had to call the ambulance and the
kitchen nightmare's host was forced to shut down the restaurant for the day
coming back the following day he's repulsed by the buckets of frozen ingredients and sauces covered
in mold in their food storage demanding that he threw out all the frozen food to avoid making
another person sick john complies and ramsay is finally able to start turning things around
giving the restaurant a new sign revamping the interior and updating the menu to include
fresh items it seemed like mama maria's was going in the right direction after ramsay left business
was reported to have gone up by 10 since jon has generally kept up with ramsay's changes
while he did add in some customer favorites back the menu is still more or less the same
which explains why they're still open and rocking four and a half stars on yelp with 122 reviews
prohibition grill belly dancer richie brown decided to open up a restaurant in 2008 with
no experience called prohibition grill it should be obvious but the restaurant has been struggling
from the get-go losing 100 thousand dollars a year desperately needing some guidance brown
calls out the chef ramsay who upon arriving at the restaurant is disturbed to find the owner belly
dancing in front of customers one asked about her decision to own a restaurant she expresses
that she was drunk when she wanted to buy the restaurant and despite the word grill in their
name they don't even own one already colossally disappointed ramsay orders some food which is so
disgusting that it makes him somewhat angry rating the food 0 out of 10 brown refuses to acknowledge
that there's a problem with the food they serve going on to inspect the fridge the famous chef
finds a ton of raw and cooked meat being stored next to each other some rotting fish and old food
the following day the staff exposed chef rocky expressing that he goes outside to smoke during
busy service and takes three percent of all tips eventually firing the useless chef ramsay gives
brown a cooking lesson and promises that he'll find her a new chef changing the restaurant's
theme and overall decor as well as making a new and simple menu with delicious dishes customers
were absolutely loving it several weeks after the restaurant was reborn it became a humongous
hit and the owner felt much more in control of her business while business was certainly much
higher than usual the changes made were not all completely well received some yelp reviewers who
were regulars expressed that they liked the old menu better while the new ones loved how things
changed deciding on selling the restaurant to brenton holland in 2016 he kept the same name
and decor but chose to focus on steak and whiskey though it sadly met its end in july of 2017.
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