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channel for today's video we're going to discuss more restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares
and reveal if they're still open today i just want to give a quick thanks for the continued support
so without further ado let's get right into the content guys old hitching post for this episode
chef Gordon Ramsay decides to visit the historic old hitching post purchased by a man named tom
caceres despite the fact that he bought the restaurant for his daughter andrea he doesn't let
her have a say in anything having worked alongside her father for seven years she expressed that
she wouldn't have signed up to help had she known that she still wouldn't be in a position of power
supposedly tom believes that she isn't ready since she doesn't have the drive nor does she work hard
enough even though the owner claims to buy quality ingredients old hitching post is losing close to
eight thousand dollars a week needing some help and really fast tom calls out to the legendary
Chef Ramsay for some valuable guidance when arriving Ramsay finds out that angie's husband
was brought in to help out with the kitchen wanting to test the food he gets the cranberry
haddock some meatloaf and lobster ravioli which all predictably taste really bad everything
was either cold watery bland or undercooked which was really disappointing to the chef
as he witnesses the dinner service he catches a lot of frozen food being used and there's tom to
show the customers what he's using to make their meals not wanting to do so out of embarrassment
Chef Ramsay exposes to the customers that their food isn't fresh and they clearly weren't happy
soon after the customers begin to complain about a range of things from feeling sick because of
the food to the dated decor of the restaurant passing on the comments tom he promises to
change and visits two locals who teach him that making fresh meatloaf is not as hard as he thinks
ready to make some changes Ramsay redecorates the restaurant removing all the hideous and dated
decor revamping the menu everything was designed to be made fresh Ramsay added things like clam
chowder new england lobster rolls and best of all fresh meatloaf after the relaunch andrea finally
gained the control over the restaurant she desired and customers were seemingly happy with the food
today the restaurant is still very much open and even rocking a solid 4 stars on yelp across
81 unique reviews it appears now that andrea is the official owner manager of the restaurant and
she is keeping standards really high reviewers seem to praise their delicious comfort food the
general atmosphere and the good staff you can say that changing the ownership really made
this rescue a complete success el greco owned by jake constantinidas and his mother athena
el greco is a greek restaurant that was featured in the fifth season of the show for the first six
months of its existence the restaurant was doing great but for some reason things began to decline
it became especially worrisome for athena who put all of her money into the restaurant
so this dire situation called for the help of chef Ramsay upon his arrival Ramsay meets with both
owners and learns that their chef jake is trained yet shows up really late when he finally gets to
the restaurant a whole argument breaks out since athena blames the restaurant's failures on jake
meeting with manager anthony he reveals that a lot of arguments break out and that jake only
works three hours a day because he likes to play video games already feeling disappointed
this is pushed even further when he orders some food which comes back tasting disgusting
the food is branded by the famous chef to be inauthentic and embarrassing to which the server
dustin says it was cooked by the chef mike as in microwave going into the kitchen feeling irritated
jake defends his cooking calling it high-end quality food which makes Ramsay believe he just
doesn't care anymore while observing the dinner service he talks with diego the line cook who's
amazed with the fact that they use the microwave so much and don't cook on the burners jake claims
that he only reheats food with the microwave and isn't cooking food which makes chef ramsay the
man that he respects what he's cooking following this the kitchen nightmare's host comes back the
next day to yet another fight due to jake's lack of punctuality ramsay urges jack to come to work
earlier but he tells him that he hates coming to the restaurant because the owners always nag him
telling athena and kiki to stop pressing him every time he tries to work they agree and some changes
could finally be made throwing the microwave out of a third story window and revamping the
menu to bring jake's passion back things seem to be going in the right direction once ramsay left
some progress was made however since their debts were so incredibly high and too difficult to cover
el greco closed down in december of 2011. before closing down a lot of the staff left
the restaurant including the lead line cook james since there were too many disagreements after the
episode aired james expressed that jake was too difficult to work with and he quickly started to
cut corners on ramsay's new menu according to the local press the regulars of the restaurant
were not happy with the changes the famous chef made calling his dishes inauthentic and generic
it's clear that this rescue was a complete failure spin a yarn steakhouse saki cabuniaris purchased
spin a yarn steakhouse in 1995 since it was struggling to stay open hiring a woman named
jen as a waitress they got into a relationship and eventually got married two years later
as business began to decline jen persuaded her husband to remodel the restaurant but overspent
on their three hundred thousand dollar budget spending over nine hundred thousand dollars on
the court she didn't check the prices of anything she was buying which was incredibly irresponsible
as a result of the increased pressure to survive their daughter michaela reveals that her parents
are on the verge of getting a divorce in urgent need of some aid the owners reach out to the
kitchen nightmares team and gordon ramsay for some help meeting with jen at their home she admits
that she's seen as a trophy wife and lied to get her job though she quickly fell for saki later
arriving at the restaurant ramsay's shown around by saki and is impressed to see that they have an
80 000 bathroom though ramsay's not exactly fond of the fact that the servers are over dressed and
wear tuxedos ordering some food he's unimpressed that everything tastes like it was cans nothing
is fresh and ramsay's left feeling disgusted during the dinner service ramsay's shocked to
see that the cook victor is stuck washing dishes instead of cooking since saki rejects the idea of
getting a dishwasher any food that does come out of the kitchen is sent right back since it's been
cooked without their head chef going on to inspect their walk-in freezer ramsay finds a bunch of old
meat and rotting vegetables which results in him forcing the owners to clean their freezer sitting
down with saki and jen he gets them to resolve their clear lack of communication in hopes that
they could rescue the business and their marriage following the discussion between the pair ramsay
was finally able to start making some valuable changes specifically the kitchen nightmares host
decided to slim down the menu and improve on practically every item that they had one of the
biggest hits on the new menu upon the restaurant's relaunch were their delicious prime ribs
overall reopening the restaurant when successfully and ramsay praises the couple for their teamwork
today the prime rib is still the restaurant's biggest attraction and draws in tons of customers
thankfully the couple is working together unlike before which definitely improved their
relationship shortly after the show was taped reviews were mostly negative but things somehow
got better in the recent years rocking a pretty decent 3.5 stars on yelp across 651 unique reviews
you can say this was a success cafe hun in 1992 the vibrant cafe hun was opened and became known
for the giant flamingo on its front side being purchased by entrepreneur denise whiting while
it was successful at first business slowly went downhill when the owner began to take it out on
her staff asking chef ramsay to help he arrives to find out that the business has fifty percent less
revenue and that whiting invested the last of our money wanting to test the food he orders something
called the big bay club english style fish and chips and the much better than mom's meatloaf
ramsay surprisingly thinks that the crab in the club dish was delicious though the other
ingredients were cold and spoiled the other dishes he ordered come back tasting dreadful
with no flavor and yet again some parts were stone cold ramsay can tell that the moral is low and he
soon is revealed that the employees don't like the way they're spoken to nor do they like whiting's
management style most feel like her behavior is terribly negative and they feel like the business
is better off when she isn't there though talking with some locals it comes to ramsay's attention
that whiting's business lost customers due to a local boycott whiting trademarked the word hun
which is a popular term of endearment in cafe hun which alienated a lot of the locals many felt like
the owner was just a bully who wanted to profit off of others by trademarking a widely used word
some of the locals admit that if she drops control over the word they would consider
visiting the restaurant which she thankfully did in order to give the restaurant a boost ramsey
revamps a restaurant and menu and tells whiting to apologize to the public on a local radio station
fast forward to after ramsay came the restaurant is still open but with some very mixed reviews
there are negative reviews about both food and service some even bringing back up the trademark
issue while she doesn't own the word anymore people still hold it against her well that'll
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