Location: Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
The Hawaiian-themed restaurant's decor is just as tired as its stubborn, elderly owner.
Note: the restaurant was renamed The Junction during production.
Tropes
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Gordon's reaction to the overly-pretentious Filet Mignon-Gordon: Next, Filet Mignon. Looking forward to a really nice, classic piece of meat...the Chef's dream, Filet Mignon. Something simple, something classic...[Beat as the unfinished Filet Mignon is shown being wheeled in on a cart by the now sharply-dressed owner]...and something that's not normally served on a trolley.
- Never Trust a Trailer: A particularly egregious instance of this happened in the trailer, which implied that the restaurant burnt down during the episode, which the "coming up" segments prior to the commercials also implied. Needless to say, this didn't actually happen; all that was going on was that they were burning the restaurant's horrible, tacky décor on a bonfire. The building itself was untouched.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Adele. She came out of retirement to run the restaurant, and often swore at her waitstaff when she found their behavior disagreeable. She was also rude to customers and would even vent to customers about her dislike of the restaurant relaunch after they expressed positive thoughts about it.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Adele was completely unappreciative of Ramsay's new changes, decor, menu... just everything about The Junction... she hated it so much, she would have rather shut the doors and go home. During interviews after the changes, Adele even insults Ramsay's attempts to help her failing restaurant and she had zero gratitude, nitpicking over every little thing just because it wasn't her precious tropical decor. To give you an idea, she complained about the new paint job because she hated the color blue while wearing a blue shirt and complained that Gordon's salmon dish tasted too much like fish. In fact, Adele hated the changes so much, she reverted back to the old ways sometime after the revisit (in which Gordon gave her a new crocodile to replace the old crocodile statue which was burned in the episode), rendering his efforts to save her restaurant in vain, something she admitted to doing in a comment on the Kitchen Nightmares' official blog. It's probably because of this woman's immense refusal to change for the better that the restaurant eventually failed.
