Top 10 Moments from Kitchen Nightmares

Any fan of Kitchen Nightmares should have seen this one coming. Amy's Baking Company is truly legendary because of Amy's inability to handle criticism and Samy taking the servers' tips and being rude to customers.

When Gordon first arrives, he is impressed with the decor and how the kitchen is clean and organized. However, some of the food items leave much to be desired, like an undercooked pizza. When he observes how the staff are treated, Ramsay is horrified. Whenever people try to critique the Bouzaglos' food items, Amy digs in her heels and fires back, both in person and online.

Furthermore, the couple do not allow the restaurant to open without them, and they went through over 100 employees in just a year. After giving it much thought, Ramsay realizes that Amy only brought him to her restaurant to be her yes man and that any changes he tries to make would only be temporary. He is then forced to do the one thing he never thought he would have to do: just walk away.

This is easily one of the saddest episodes of any reality TV show because the Bouzaglos were absolutely close-minded and couldn't handle hearing any criticism. Unsurprisingly, the restaurant closed down two years after the episode aired, and the couple even appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil. Truly unbelievable.

Nino's Italian Restaurant had been open for over 50 years when Ramsay visited the place.

The eldest son, Nino, didn't understand how to be a restaurant manager and needed to realize that there was a lot more to keeping a restaurant going than just cleaning the place and taking pictures of himself doing it. To further add to the drama, Nino's mother had to keep taking money out of her retirement fund to keep the place going.

As usual, none of the food items pleased the iron-tongued chef, and the decor was an eyesore. In the end, it looked like things had turned around. However, the restaurant eventually closed in August 2016. While the restaurant is long gone, this meme will live on.

This has to be one of the worst-managed Mexican restaurants in culinary history.

When Gordon Ramsay first arrived, there was no proper sign directly on the restaurant, and it said Grill 303. The menus were also left over from the previous restaurant, and that was just the tip of the dung pile.

When Gordon inspected the coolers, he was mortified by how old and rotten everything was. What pushed him over the edge was how the refried beans were stored in a garbage bin. He took the bin out to the dining room to show the customers and told them that not only was the restaurant closed, but they didn't have to pay for anything.

Later on, he discovered cockroach-infested dishes while trying to organize a burrito cooking contest. The highlight was when Ramsay told Victor, "I wouldn't trust you to run a bath, let alone a *beep* restaurant!" Despite a drastic turnaround, Fiesta Sunrise actually closed before the episode could air due to financial issues.

Before Gordon Ramsay took his show overseas, he was helping struggling restaurants in the United Kingdom and certain parts of Europe.

The first ever episode was in the small town of Silsden, England, where he helped a struggling restaurant with two major problems. The menu had no appeal to the working-class locals, and the head chef was 21-year-old Tim Gray, who was totally inexperienced in the culinary world.

To further add fuel to the fire, Tim served Ramsay some scallops that were well past their best-before date, causing Ramsay to vomit in the back alley. By the end of the show, it looked like Bonapartes had finally turned things around with solid bookings for Valentine's Day.

However, when Ramsay returned a month later, he found the place in even worse shape than when he first arrived. The fridge was worse than ever, and Tim still couldn't make an omelet. Sue, who owned the restaurant, fired Tim and closed the place.

If there's one thing you must never do when talking to Gordon Ramsay, it's lie about your credentials and experience. That's something Joe of Mill Street Bistro learned the hard way. When the two first meet on Joe's farm, Joe tells Ramsay about how he trained with some of the best chefs in the world and that a lot of the food served at the restaurant goes from the farm directly to the plate, figuratively speaking.

However, Joe finds out that Ramsay can tell the difference between what's fresh and what's frozen. Much to Ramsay's disappointment, it was the latter. He even interviews a former employee who was originally hired for Garde Manger and eventually had to do more work than she was hired for. The menu items were overpriced, and talking in the back of the house was very restrictive. But the best part was when he verbally eviscerated Joe after hours, much to the delight of his staff and the viewers.

This was a two-part episode where it looked like Joe had turned over a new leaf with the new name Maple City Tavern. However, this closed in February 2016.

"YOU'RE SO IN DENIAL YOU NEED THERAPY!" Those are probably the first words that come to mind when we think of this episode.

Even when Ramsay walked through the door of the restaurant, Abby was totally defiant and close-minded. Whenever someone tried to tell her something, she would dig in her heels and not listen. To make things worse, she fired the head chef some time before the episode started airing, which meant there was no real leader to take control of the situation.

As per the norm, the fridge was full of moldy, rotten food, with the lamb bones being one nasty example. At the end of the episode, Abby had an epiphany and agreed to let Gordon help her. However, the chef's changes didn't sit well with the old customers, and the restaurant closed in December 2011.

In the UK version of the show, Ramsay heads to Haywards Heath, England, and finds that this restaurant has more business than any other restaurant to date. However, that's only because of the two-for-one coupons that they keep giving out. The biggest sin of the whole place was the carvery, which wasn't up to par. Not to mention that he was the only customer who wasn't a senior.

After examining the back of the house and discovering how filthy it is with old food and derelict equipment, Ramsay immediately quarantines the kitchen and reprimands the staff, head chef Toby in particular. Near the end of the show, after a dinner service, it looks like things are turning around. When Ramsay revisits the place a few weeks later, he's glad to find that the new head chef Matt is steering the restaurant in the right direction and that Toby, who was demoted to sous chef, was fired for serving expired chicken. However, Ramsay becomes concerned when Matt tells him that the carvery is returning on weekends.

The first U.S. episode to feature a restaurant specializing in seafood followed Ramsay's usual pattern of sampling the food, getting customers to come in, and inspecting the kitchen.

This was easily the most disgusting kitchen in the history of the show, with nothing being cleaned in who knows how long. The restaurant was closed until it was spotless.

The highlight of the episode was when Ramsay introduced a new menu item that head chef Doug refused to taste. Sous chef Charles continued to not care about the quality of his work. Because this duo refused to make the necessary changes for Seascape to survive, the owners, Peter and Irene, had no choice but to fire them. Naturally, YouTubers destroyed them in the comments section.

Despite a drastic turnaround, the restaurant closed in October 2007, and a new one opened in its place.

Once upon a time in Brooklyn, New York, a restaurant called Sal's Pizzeria was one of the city's most popular restaurants. In the 1990s, they were able to purchase Maria's next door. But soon after, Jon's mother was stricken with cancer and passed away, with his father also dying not too long after. He decided to rename the restaurant Mama Maria's to honor his parents' legacy.

However, while the neighborhood around the restaurant certainly changed, Mama Maria's stayed the same, and business started to plummet. Dinner service was a disaster, with a vegetarian finding a bone in the pasta sauce and Jon refusing to do anything about it. Things came to a head when they had to call an ambulance after a customer got sick from a bad lobster tail. What really pushed Ramsay over the edge was how much frozen food was being stored.

In the end, Jon was able to leave the pizzeria behind to work full-time in the restaurant. Mama Maria's is one of the few restaurants still open. But feel free to reply to my comment if it closes.

Located in the rural reaches of Llanddewi Skirrid, Wales, this quaint inn obtained a Michelin Star under the leadership of their head chef. However, without one, the food has risen in price but fallen in quality, and it's definitely reflected in the empty dining room.

Ramsay had some seafood stew that he said was like eating a bowl of clay. He tells the current owner, Francesco Mattioli, that without a head chef, he could kiss his Michelin Star goodbye. Gordon and Francesco interview a couple of candidates to help turn the inn around.

Most people doing an interview go by how well the candidate is dressed and how polished their resume is. Gordon Ramsay wasn't one of them. Instead, he took them into the kitchen and charged them with making something delicious. However, they were rejected because they couldn't cook anything that pleased the two. Not to mention that one of the candidates knew nothing about the place before coming.

Although it closed in 2007, it was reopened with new owners and given a new Michelin Star in 2010.