So I’ve now seen a couple episodes of Kitchen Nightmares. I much prefer the UK version. It appears the US producers tried to jazz things up, create more tension, etc. It’s not as cool. It is apparent, however, that the US version has a lot more money to spend. Watching the whole UK first series, it is apparent that the restaurant owners really had to turn the places around on their own with some direction from Ramsay. In the US version, he seems to take a much more active role—and the network money is used a lot to refurbish the restaurants. I kind of liked the low-key British version better.
There is one constant: the kitchens are pretty much universally disgusting. It seems to always be the first step to strip down the kitchen and clean the hell out of it. In the first few US episodes, Ramsay shut down two restaurants for a night because the kitchens were so atrocious.
Rule 1: don’t poison customers. Duly noted.
On a related note, I had a dream last night involving a terribly salty miso soup (as in, salt block salty). Perhaps I’ve been watching too much Kitchen Nightmares.
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