Dave Smith I don't know why you'd want to watch Kitchen Nightmares more than once. The entertainment wasn't really Ramsey so much as the people running the restaurants. The first place was just indescribably awful, Ramsey got food poisoning from the sample meal! The kindest thing you can say about the owner and the "chef" is that they were both simpletons.
As the show progressed the restaurants actually improved until they got to the final place which once been a famous gourmet establishment that depended for its success on the pbuttion of the original owners. One of the big problems for the new owners, if I remember correctly, was getting decent staff to leave London for the provinces. And of course they had to get on top of the financials, which Ramsey understands very well.
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Ramsey is quite competent as a chef and, I would say, very competent as a businessman. He is naturally short tempered and foul mouthed, but I reckon he plays to the camera. Rick Stein would never do for a show like this, he's too much of a gentleman. (And of course, here we come to the English clbutt thing that is the subtext to all their popular entertainment - Ramsey's an unashamed oik, which adds to the fun when they let him loose on the posh place next to the golf club.) The shows are not what I would call food TV, they are reality TV.
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