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worst restaurants to be featured on kitchen nightmares and reveal what they're doing now
so sit back relax and without further ado let's get right into the content guys black pearl
in a season 2 episode Gordon Ramsay heads over to a failing establishment called black pearl to
bring it back on its feet owned by brian david and greg the restaurant seemed to be pretty successful
at first but this deteriorated with time alongside this the owners stopped getting along and were
incapable of agreeing on anything making the job a living nightmare since there isn't a concrete
voice to listen to the staff don't know who to follow which is why the restaurant lacks
consistency and is heavily in debt not knowing how else to proceed the owners decide to call out to a
professional like Ramsay for some help when he arrives he's greeted by nigel stephen and some
other staff members who expressed that the owners are never at the restaurant at the same time
as he discusses black pearl state even further with the staff david unexpectedly hops into the
conversation and claims that he's a hands-on owner and works the most soon after Ramsay ordered some
clam chowder that tasted watery mac and cheese that was too chewy and rich and lobster rolls
at tasted bland leaving the famous chef with a horrible impression being very critical of the
food to the owner david gets extremely defensive and says that the lobster rolls are delicious
asking how much money they've made with their authentic food Ramsay's revealed that they're
250 000 in debt wanting to see how the restaurant operates Ramsay states for dinner and is horrified
with what he sees throughout the entire service the owners tried their hardest to prove to
Ramsay that they knew what they were doing but failed miserably david was expediting but sent
out terrible food due to his lack of experience steven was disorganized and greg was waiting in
the dining room rather than working in the kitchen like usual which is why everything turned out
awful after the appalling service Ramsay voices his concerns to the owners about the restaurant's
disorganization additionally he makes it clear that they're misleading customers by claiming
that they offer maine lobster when it's really just canadian lobster for the upcoming dinner
service Ramsay decides to add a new special to the menu and ask brian to go home so he can watch
david and greg alternate between managing and expediting while david was rude to the staff and
patrons greg shine bright in the dining room but struggled in the kitchen fast forward after the
renovations were made brian and david were very negative about the new changes but greg loved them
and performed pretty solidly during the relaunch before officially leaving ramsay tells the owners
that he doesn't think they can succeed with david there to which david challenges him to come back
and see for himself now here's the kicker not even four days after the taping of this episode
the restaurant closed down which is hilarious in a letter from the three owners david went
on a long rant claiming that ramsay was at fault for their 50 drop in sales but he's just making
excuses upon ramsay's revisit as challenge black pearl was closed but a restaurant called hog pit
open up in its place which he said was delicious david dove back into his previous career in the
music industry and released an album in 2010 which is admittedly not too bad cafe tavellini
first season 4 episode gordon ramsay heads over to cafe tavellini in bridgeport connecticut to
rescue it from closure purchased by a man named keith and his wife lisa on a whim the couple don't
have any prior experience at first the restaurant was packed and pretty successful but as business
declined with time so did everything else the cafe is constantly deserted and is 350 000 in
debt which is why the owners called out to ramsey for some aid upon its eventual rival ramsay meets
with keith who claims that he's at the restaurant every day but his son van says otherwise
hungary the famous chef sits down and orders a meatball salad which tasted dreadful some salmon
that was undercooked and a risotto that was made the day before leaving ramsay feeling unimpressed
soon after keith and his son van who also works at the restaurant gets into an argument about
being transparent and things get heated very quickly when his wife lisa tries to calm them
down keith tells her to shut up which results in her breaking down but ramsay finally intervenes
being as brutally honest as ever the kitchen nightmares hosted mesare's meals were disgraceful
and hideous with their business as well as their marriage on the line ramsay tries to dig deeper
and gathers information about the restaurant's financial state supposedly the restaurant is
months away from closing down and the family is going to be homeless if they lose the cafe
additionally lisa admits that she's wanted to get a divorce on multiple occasions and probably will
if the business fails before moving forward ramsay decides to observe the dinner service which was
absolutely chaotic not only was the food pre-cooked and sent out at a snail's pace
but the owners dined in the driveway as their staff scrambled around trying to fulfill orders
confronting the owners soon after he tells them that they lack any drive to run a restaurant and
simply don't care boarding up the restaurant the following day to prove a point the owners are
stunned by their impending reality and finally wake up holding a staff meeting later on both
keith and lisa apologize for their behavior and promise to do better next ramsay introduces a
new family style menu they'll be using for the upcoming dinner service which will force both
owners to work together while the customers seem to really enjoy the new items those who
ordered from the old menu were left to wait and ended up being disappointed with their meals
since keith was very overwhelmed he decided to walk out forcing the restaurant's chef michael
to step up and rescue the service overall things went pretty well and ramsay congratulated the
kitchen for pushing out the family menu dishes very quickly by the end of the episode after the
famous chef got everyone on the same page and renovated the interior the restaurant's future
was looking pretty bright weeks after the taping of this episode the owners reportedly ditched all
of ramsay's changes which didn't help them out one bit obviously they ended up closing down
in december of 2010 not even three weeks after the famous chef had helped them out as a woman
of her word lisa left her husband soon after the restaurant failed which we don't blame her for
supposedly keith hoped to reopen the restaurant in 2011 but due to his lack of funds this was never
realized a lot of the staff including michael were hired at another establishment called b-line bar
which has decent reviews jack's waterfront gordon ramsay heads over to sinclair shore michigan to
save jack's waterfront from impending failure owned by three men named bill tammer and scott
their restaurant was met with relative success especially during the summer but is normally a
ghost town during the winter the owners understand that they have a reputation for bad food which is
the main reason why their business is failing however tamar's father aj who's the general
manager makes things even worse since he flirts with female customers and drinks on the job
being 500 thousand dollars in debt and unsure how to move forward the owners call out to ramsey for
some aid when he finally arrives ramsay speaks individually with aj scott and bill who have
differing reasons as to why the restaurant is failing supposedly billy expresses that the
reason they aren't growing is due to their awful food while aj thinks that the meals they offer are
great and isn't sure why the restaurant is failing on the contrary scott says that aj is the biggest
problem especially since he drinks all the time sitting down to order some food ramsay gets a
crab omelet pecan salmon as well as fish and chips as expected everything the famous chef receives
tastes either dreadful or is clearly store-bought entering the kitchen soon after to speak with the
staff the restaurant's chef aaron points out that the crabmeat ramsay aids had been frozen in bulk
long before he even worked there expressing that he isn't in charge of the food has no control over
shopping for produce and is incapable of changing the menu the famous chef is left feeling appalled
observing the dinner service later on ramsay's embarrassed on how slow orders are being sent
out with the first few dishes taking close to an hour to reach the customer's table on top of
this the food wasn't worth waiting for since many patrons sent it straight back making the service
a complete disaster inspecting the kitchen the following day ramsay finds salmon marinating in
italian spices tuna dyed pink and solid mushroom risotto stuck to a pan moving on to the fridge
the famous chef finds spoiled condiments stored next to fresh food which is incredibly disgusting
while the owners who were forced to deep clean the kitchen bring it back up to standards ramsay
visits a local fisherman as they both attempt to catch some fish ramsay learns the fisherman
hates the restaurant since they drown their fish in sauces returning later on with the fishy cots
the famous chef teaches both aj and aaron how to make chowder served in a bread bun as well
as poached salmon both of which would be served in the upcoming service later on when the service
finally starts aaron tries to give instructions to his staff but they don't listen and leave the
customers waiting for over an hour to get their food despite the fact that things were disastrous
yet again ramsay decided to proceed with the renovations anyway a while after the taping of
this episode aaron managed to gain full control of the kitchen menu and staffing which allowed
him to fire two incompetent cooks and replace them with talented sous chefs aj was thankfully fired
since he was only a burden to the restaurant which made space for a new general manager sadly their
efforts amounted to nothing since the restaurant closed down two years later in december of 2010.
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