History Recap / KitchenNightmaresS5E7BurgerKitchenPart2

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: Alan realizes he's turned into his own father and apologizes to his son, therefore setting the restaraunt back on track. Sadly, the restaurant would close in February of 2012 and Alan would pass away in April of 2020.

* ChekhovsGun: Earlie in the two-parter, Alan had lent Gordon a copy of his memoir of his own paternal relative. When Gordon reads it, he finds that the father-son situation from the past was repeating itself in the current times. When he makes light of it with the entire family gathered around, it comes across as a pretty brutal slap on the head for the father. ManlyTears were shed at that moment, as well.

* GenerationXerox: Alan, the owner, gave Gordon Ramsay a book he wrote about his abusive father [[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Saffron Abe Saffron]], who happens to have also been one of the most notorious mobsters in Australia[[/note]], whom he hated for trying to make him stay in Australia and work in his business. As revealed earlier in the episode, it seems that Alan's son, Daniel, has suffered a similar fate.

The explosive drama continues as Gordon is still in Los Angeles struggling to bring together the fragmented Saffron family and their failing restaurant, the Burger Kitchen. Last time, son Daniel nearly came to blows with the head chef, and Gordon was shocked to learn that dad Alan had taken from Daniel's inheritance, without his knowledge, to help fund the start-up of the restaurant.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Gordon's description of the new wall art after the makeover.
--->"They're hip, they're cool, and they're very trendy."

* HypocriticalHumor: Alan criticized the chef's burger, saying that it was cooked medium rather than medium-rare. However, the amount of juice seen leaking from the burger that the owner made showed that his burger was rare, at best.

* GenerationXerox: Alan, the owner, gave Gordon Ramsay a book he wrote about his abusive father [[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Saffron Abe Saffron]], who happens to have also been one of the most notorious mobsters in Australia[[/note]], whom he hated for trying to make him stay in Australia and work in his business. As revealed earlier in the episode, it seems that Alan's son, Daniel, has suffered a similar fate.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The owners fail to recognize that their son's resentment comes from using his money without his permission.

* ChekhovsGun: Earlie in the two-parter, Alan had lent Gordon a copy of his memoir of his own paternal relative. When Gordon reads it, he finds that the father-son situation from the past was repeating itself in the current times. When he makes light of it with the entire family gathered around, it comes across as a pretty brutal slap on the head for the father. ManlyTears were shed at that moment, as well.

* AbusiveParents: Daniel's parents ''stole'' a quarter million dollars out of their son's inheritance without his knowledge to fund the restaurant, and leaving their son to shoulder the responsibility of running a business where he was not treated as an equal partner. When asked what will happen when the restaurant goes deeper into the red, the dad's response is to use the remaining $160,000 in his son's account.

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