History Fridge / KitchenNightmares

* Chef Ramsay's angry admonishments may seem like abuse to the casual eye. But when you think about it, he's really trying to get them to adopt his mindset that these kinds of things should be absolutely intolerable to all of them.

* While only around 1/3 of the restaurants on the show remained open, if it hadn't been for Chef Ramsay's intervention, it's safe to say that all of them would have gone under within months.

** More brilliance when you realize that most of these restaurants are in trouble because the owners/chefs are in serious denial about the true problems. Customers will "vote with their feet" rather than face an ugly scene in public, and staff tends to stay quiet out of fear of losing jobs, which only allows the issues to fester in silence. By his anger and F-bombs, Gordon brings the dirt out into the open where it can't hide anymore, forcing them to confront it. The first step to healing is admitting the problem...
** Gordon is also quite pointedly never loud and angry with people unless they deserve it; he's more often than not calm, complimentary and caring toward servers and kitchen staff -- who are not terribly likely to have a lot of says in how poorly the restaurants are run. He justifiably calls out managers, owners, and chefs who are often the root of their problems or at the very least not helping matters.

** In her Website/{{Reddit}} AMA, waitress Katie from the infamous was asked why she isn't suing Samy and Amy for her tips. She answers she only worked for them for a couple of weeks and this tiny amount of money isn't worth the hassle. This answers why Samy and Amy were never sued by past employees -- they were there for so short of a time that they figured it was easier to just move on and write the abuse and stolen money off.

* Ramsay infamously has a habit of spitting out food that tastes weird to him. This makes more sense if you know that Bonaparte's is the first ever thing Ramsay ever filmed for TV and he almost got food poisoning; in that episode he asked for the chef's signature dish and ended up being fed a rancid scallop. Ramsay had to induce vomiting to get it out of his system since rotten seafood can be lethal. In chronologically later episodes he mentions being food poisoned many other times during the production of the show. No wonder by the time of The F Word and his US Kitchen Nightmares series, he's developed a habit of not swallowing anything that doesn't make his tastebuds sing.

* The turnover at Amy's Baking Company, by Samy's own admission, was over 100 staff in a year. That's about an employee EVERY THREE DAYS. Which means even ''one week'' without a firing was probably rare.
** That's supposing they don't quit first.
* The sheer number of unseemly, acrimonious arguments at Amy's Baking Company -- all just during this episode's filming over two days -- makes one wonder how many ugly scenes happened before, and how they may have been even worse.
** Amy Bouzaglo could have well been a tragedy just waiting to happen. This woman is obviously not well, and she has shown she sees nothing wrong with physically harming somebody for criticizing her food. It's not a stretch at all that she may have grabbed one of those butcher knives and gone after a patron. Not to mention that nobody can fire her for her erratic behavior -- she ''owns'' the place.

* In her reddit AMA, waitress Katie from the infamous Amy's Baking Company-episode was asked why she isn't suing Samy and Amy for her tips. She answers she only worked for them for a couple of weeks and this tiny amount of money isn't worth the hassle. This answers why Samy and Amy were never sued by past employees -- they were there for so short of a time that they figured it was easier to just move on and write the abuse and stolen money off.
* A lot of Samy's obsessive behaviours, like not letting anyone but him use the till and stealing waitresses tips, makes a lot of sense if you interpret Amy's Baking Company as a front for some sort of money laundering operation. Samy's past in organized crime just makes this more likely.

** Gordon is also quite pointedly never loud and angry with people unless they deserve it; he's more often than not calm, complimentary and caring toward servers and kitchen staff - who are not terribly likely to have a lot of says in how poorly the restaurants are run. He justifiably calls out managers, owners, and chefs who are often the root of their problems or at the very least not helping matters.

* The sheer number of unseemly, acrimonious arguments at Amy's Baking Company - all just during this episode's filming over two days - makes one wonder how many ugly scenes happened before, and how they may have been even worse.

** The downplayed version of this is actually TruthInTelevision--many people (particularly in Asia) have kids mostly "to take care of them when they're older," and the parents get anywhere from confused to ''angry'' if they find out the kids don't want to do that, or want to work in a field or marry a partner that [[MyBelovedSmother the parent didn't pick for them.]]

* In her reddit AMA, waitress Katie from the infamous Amy's Baking Company-episode was asked why she isn't suing Samy and Amy for her tips. She answers she only worked for them for a couple of weeks and this tiny amount of money isn't worth the hassle. This answers why Samy and Amy were never sued by past employees- they were there for so short of a time that they figured it was easier to just move on and write the abuse and stolen money off.

* A lot of Sammy's obsessive behaviours, like not letting anyone but him use the till and stealing waitresses tips, makes a lot of sense if you interpret Amy's Baking Company as a front for some sort of money laundering operation. Sammy's past in organized crime just makes this more likely.

* [[LiteralMinded Some restaurants have truly horrifying fridges]] - not merely the dirt, but it's a miracle they weren't causing all of their customers severe food poisoning.