Gordon Ramsay is the worst part of Kitchen Nightmares

I like the concept of the show so much, seeing various restaurants that are struggling for whatever reason, and trying to help them improve. It’s painfully obvious though that the point is to entertain the viewer more than actually help the restaurants.

The whole structure of the show is a great formula to create massive drama but a terrible one to actually improve establishments. Every episode goes somewhat like this:

1. Ramsay shows up and tries the food. He dramatises how absolutely disgusting it is and sends everything back.

2. Under the guise of “seeing how they work” Ramsay creates massive publicity for the restaurant. This creates a massive stress test. They are inevitably unprepared, overwhelmed, and fail miserably. Interlace with shots of pissed customers.

3. Ramsay does a whole extreme restaurant makeover thing.

4. New dishes added to the menu, and they do a big “grand reopening” dealio. Again publicised so its incredibly busy. Shockingly changing the colour scheme and replacing the menus hasn’t fixed the underlying staff issues and they are entirely unprepared again.

5. “Wow you guys have a really good foundation here, now you just have to keep it up” or some shit like that

Sprinkle Ramsay screaming at the top of his lungs at various staff.

He just says shit for shock value. “No offense. But your food is disgusting and you should be embarrassed.” I mean thank fuck he didn’t mean offense, can you imagine?

I want to watch poorly managed kitchen drama not watch Ramsay just fuck with people. He’s the epitome of the phrase “you’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole”.

Anyway, this is day 34 of total producer’s block. What do you guys do when you’re feeling uninspired?