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Kitchen Nightmares (2007)

Kitchen Nightmares poster
Genre
reality television, cooking show
Country
United States
Length
6 seasons, 92 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 180 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Chef Gordon Ramsay visits failing American restaurants and spends a week trying to help the owners turn their businesses around. He identifies problems with the food, service, and management while often clashing with stubborn staff and owners.

tensefrustratingconfrontationalhigh-stakescatharticredemptivehonestintense

What happens

Kitchen Nightmares, also is known in the UK as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA, is an American reality television series originally broadcast on Fox, in which chef Gordon Ramsay is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. Produced by ITV Studios America, it is based on the British show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. The show originally premiered September 19, 2007, on Fox. On June 23, 2014, Ramsay announced that he was ending the series; the final episode aired on September 12 that year. In June 2018, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, a series similar to Kitchen Nightmares albeit with a shorter timeline, premiered on Fox. In May 2023, Fox announced that the show would re-enter production for an eighth season, which premiered on September 25, 2023. The show's ninth season began airing on January 7, 2025. On May 11, 2026, the show was renewed for a tenth season, which is set to premiere on July 21, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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