I am a little late to the party on Kitchen Nightmares, but I PVR'd it, and I just watched it yesterday. The "Americanization" of the show was a little much for me at times. Far too much drama and not enough of Ramsay. I knew this was going to happen, but it's still disappointing. The parts of the old show I liked were the Kitchen side of things. The front house stuff is often too full of whining and complaining. I hope future episodes focus more on the food and the kitchen staff working with Ramsay. But since it's Fox and they feel the need to appeal to the lowest common denominator, they focus on all "shock" moments, like fighting/yelling/drama. And like everyone else I miss the part where he comes back to the restaurant a couple weeks later to see how everything is working out. I find that part interesting. Hopefully this episode was to get people hooked and the future ones will be more like the British show. But sadly I have a feeling the other episodes will be just like this one.
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