"Michelin-starred celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay visits struggling restaurants to help turn the business around. He critiques the food, usually gets into a verbal sparring match with the owners, and then recommends an overhaul of the menu and décor. Most restaurants seem happy with his involvement by the end of the hour, but not always. The real question is what happened after the cameras stopped rolling, and the numbers don't look good. Only 30% of featured restaurants are still open."
""Kitchen Nightmares" has aired irregularly since 2007, spanning nine seasons with the most recent airing in 2025. There was a 10 year gap between seasons seven and eight. Ramsay has sought to help 97 restaurants in that time. Some of the transformations were incredible, but only 29 of them remain open. A 30% success rate isn't anything to brag about, but all the fault can't lie with Gordon Ramsay."
Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares premiered in the U.K. in 2004 and debuted on FOX in the U.S. in 2007. The series has aired irregularly through nine seasons, most recently in 2025, and Ramsay has attempted to help 97 restaurants. Only 29 of those establishments remain open, yielding a roughly 30% survival rate. Many featured restaurants entered already struggling, carrying heavy debt or suffering fundamental mismanagement. Episodes often show owners reluctant to accept Ramsay's recommendations, confrontational interactions, and discoveries of poor food quality and sanitation. Some transformations succeeded, but many restaurants failed to sustain changes after filming.
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