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Recap / Kitchen Nightmares S4 E12 "Capri"

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Location: Eagle Rock, California

Capri is a restaurant on its last legs and owned by overgrown identical twins Jim and Jeff, both of whom have a... unique idea of how to run a restaurant and seem oblivious to the filthy reality of their business.

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  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Twins Jeff & Jim. They spend the episode slacking off, cracking under pressure in the kitchen, and bursting into tears of self-pity from their own incompetence. They somehow managed to acquire serious cooking and business savvy out of nowhere, since Capri stayed in business for more than seven years until September 2019, when they sold the restaurant and retired.
  • Just Here for the Free Snacks: Jeff half-jokingly says that they bought the restaurant in order to get free pizza.
  • Manchild: Jim and Jeff, the twin brothers who own and operate the restaurants. Both of them alternate between acting childishly petulant when Gordon tries to help them to bursting into tears at the slightest provocation.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: At the start of the episode, Capri is only open for on Wednesdays through Sundays for dinner service, because Jeff and Jim don't want to work the lunch shift.
    Jim: I'd rather go on the computer, watch TV, play poker, sit in the sun...
  • Record Needle Scratch: Used when Gordon finds out that the meatballs are ordered from a company rather than made in-house.
  • Twin Switch: Jim and Jeff pull this on Gordon when introducing themselves. Gordon is amazed, to say the least.

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