As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
- The episode "The Juniper Hill Inn" has an extremely arrogant owner who is mismanaging finances by underpaying his staff and spending most of his money on antiques that turn out to be reproductions. Eventually, Ramsey does his best to get the owner to turn it around but the hotel went into foreclosure anyway. According to the new owners, the place was left with dirty dishes for the years it was closed.
- The Cambridge Inn closed before the episode could air - the place that invented Pie A la Mode. Even Ramsay couldn't save the hotel from all its debt problems. The hotel was also bulldozed and is no longer a hotel, the biggest Tear Jerker of this series.
- In the "Four Seasons Inn" episode, after Gordon tells the kitchen staff how bad his meal was and being informed that literally everything he'd eaten had come from a can or a bottle, Steve, one of the chefs, goes out back and bursts into tears. Regardless of his years of chef training and expertise, the fact he'd been reduced to serving such crap by an owner that didn't care had actually broken him.Chef Steve: (tearfully) How do you expect something magical when it's coming from a fucking can? Twenty-three fucking years I wait... to give him fucking apple juice concentrate! (voiceover, as he slowly breaks down in tears again) I just feel absolutely destroyed. My food is so much better than what I just fucking gave Gordon. You know, how am I going to face my kids when they're all proud of me, and I'm like: "he fucking dogged our food", you know? That's not why I became a chef.
- In the "Hotel Chester" episode, when Gordon realizes that saving this hotel has especially high stakes: the failing hotel is all that David and Sukie have left. David is still recovering from the serious accident that left him unable to run the hotel in the first place, the owners are $900,000 in debt, their house has been lost to foreclosure, and they are having to live in the hotel's windowless handicapped hotel room. Sukie, who also serves as the head chef since they can't afford a proper one at one point confesses she will go for up to a week without setting foot outside the hotel itself. Becomes a happy tearjerker at the end when Gordon, after pulling his usual makeover of the hotel itself, takes David and Sukie on a car ride to the final surprise: a furnished apartment, with the rent covered for six months.
- The two owners of the Calumet Inn clearly have no passion for the business their parents bought on their behalf, and Ramsay confronts them on this to force the family to decide what they actually want from the hotel. Ramsay gets through to the girls, with both of them admitting that they are not happy in their position and that they know they can't manage it properly, an admission that causes the older of the two sisters to burst into tears. With it all out in the open, Ramsay leaves the family to decide their futures alone, after which the girls have announced their decision to leave the hotel to their parents and their much more competent general manager, opting to step down and resume their lives pursuing their studies in Minneapolis.
- The Angler's Lodge was once thriving and full of love put in by the family that built it from the ground up, but when the family lost their 10-year-old son, the parents fell out of love with the business. The mother of the family became despondent for years and would refuse to get out of bed, while the father was left with all the burdens and having to pick up the slack. Their other son came from San Diego to work as the restaurant manager only because he felt terrible for his parents, but had no love for working and wanted to leave. After a heated argument with both the father and the chef and talking to the mother, Ramsay quickly turned from frustration to sympathy.
- It's pretty clear that the employees of the Towns Inn are at their wits' end with the incompetence of their boss Karan, who wanders around assuming everything's fine and refuses to comprehend the horrendous conditions that the hotel's actually in. The head chef has a brief meltdown in the first half of the episode because he's been telling Karan for years about what Ramsay's seen in the past day, and when Ramsay almost Rage Quits after finding out how bacteria-laden his own room is, one of the staff members begs him not to go. Later when Ramsay has a talk with Karan's son, he admits being deeply worried about her mental state. Ramsey rightly guesses that he wouldn't put up with nearly as much crap if she wasn't his mother.
- Brian Rutherford being completely crestfallen and dejected after the stress from work caused him to lose his passion for cooking. The stress was so bad that he collapsed mid-interview and had to be taken to hospital as his boss callously deflects responsibility by blaming Gordon for stressing him out. After the episode, it was revealed that Brian left the Keating Hotel; with some saying he was fired while others stated that he left of his own accord. Considering the chef's reignited passion for cooking and Eddie Kaen's disregard for his wellbeing during the interview, he most likely left out of disgust for his boss.
