History Series / HungryInvestors

** The owner of Elements is currently the worst owner seen on the show. How bad was he? [[spoiler: He caused Taffer to walk out from even investing in him ''before the initial meeting was even over''. The fact that he also threatened to call the cops on the entire production team at one point certainly puts didn't help his case.]]

* BrilliantButLazy: Sort of. The owner of Tamale Man from "Tacos and Tantrums" claimed he had one of the best tamales in Los Angeles and the investors agreed. However, he didn't put nearly as much effort into his other food, and he didn't stay open for dinner because he preferred to spend evenings with his friends. [[spoiler: He shaped up in time to get the investment, however.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: "Diva Las Vegas" was this. Two high end styled restaurants tried to compete. The Bistro had cleaning issues, but fixed that, only to reveal the other problem was their slow times wasn't letting the tables be flipped fast enough. In Elements' case, the owner was an arrogant InsufferableGenius who kept on back talking and insulting the investors, and getting angry in the kitchen. End result? The Bistro's owner gets a friendly handshake for being a decent guy with a polite "thanks, but no thanks". Elements, on the other hand, gets a much less kinder HaHaHaNo. No one gets the investment.]]
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* HopeSpot: Accidentally in "Motha Shuckas," due to one of the owners mishearing Taffer. [[spoiler: He said that they would invest in Neyow's, but the owner of Bistro Orleans thought John had said "y'all's," and actually hugged the investors believing that they had chosen him for the investment. You can see how heartbroken the investors were when they had to clarify that they wouldn't be investing in him.]]

** The first episode, "Brisket Beatdown", featured the Baby Back Shak, whose owner proclaimed himself "the King of BBQ", and played this hard. [[spoiler: It actually helped him ''win'' the investment for that episode as the investors reasoned that kind of attitude would be great for marketing.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: John and Ki from "Sake Bombed." [[spoiler: It was John's Red Oni tendencies that eventually lost them the investment, since he refused to take money with strings attached.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: Taffer pulls this on Elements in the episode "Diva Las Vegas", before he gets done with the initial greeting with the owner. He makes it bluntly clear throughout the episode, he is ''not'' going to invest into Elements.]]
** [[spoiler: John from "Sake Bombed" apparently didn't realize that the money from the investors would come with strings attached, and RageQuit right before the final presentation. As a result, they didn't get the investmet.]]

* [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Chef?]]: "Westbound and Ground", an episode between two Los Angeles burger joints featured Outlaw Burgers. The investors thought the food was good, but there was one major problem: the owner refused to listen to customers dietary requests, such as those regarding allergies. As the owner reasoned, "If you can't eat it, then don't". It did not make him look good. [[spoiler: It ended up being one of the major reasons leading to him to lose out on the investment.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: From the "Sake Bombed" episode, we have the Mr. Sushi restaurant, which served [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything extremely phallic]] sake shots out of hollowed-out cucumbers. In case the implication wasn't already clear, they then doused the tops in cream and [[CrossesTheLineTwice started licking one of them suggestively.]]