The Worst Episode Of Kitchen Nightmares Ever
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2024
- Today we're FINALLY going to be taking a look at a show that's taken me two years to cover, Kitchen Nightmares. More specifically the WORST episode of Kitchen Nightmares and arguably the biggest failure I've ever seen on the show... for now... until I have to make another video. So anyways sit back and enjoy as we take a look at the infamous "Amy's Baking Company" episode.
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missed u guys thanks for not forgetting about me after such a long break
Great episode! 👍
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Still watching ya homie
We love you, man! We could never forget about ya.. 😊
Thank you for the new video! It was awesome. I had heard of this episode but never seen it so thanks for doing a video on it!
She claims the customers don't know good food because they eat processed foods, but then she proceeds to serve frozen ravioli.
And then when fucking GODRON RAMSEY, a master chef tells her that her food is bad, it's still a mistake.
Every kitchen nightmares ever
Frozen food is not all “processed,” you can just freeze normal food.
@@Yoshimitsu4prez yeah, it'd make more sense if they said canned ravioli.
lol
This is what my social anxiety tells me will happen when I tell the waiter they got my order wrong
True 😂 and now i know its a legit possibility 😅
I'm an outgoing and loud person but I still get anxiety from having to mention an issue with my food order and it must be really wrong to actually make a complaint so you're far from alone on this.
Nope not even gonna get out of my car, I pick up outside very little interaction.
@@bradblumhof6917 for real !! I’ve also worked in the service industry for a very long time, and I’ve dealt with some of the meanest people. I think the thought of me making another person feel even a fraction of what Ive felt in those situations makes me feel sick a little.
@@bradblumhof6917 is it "really wrong" if it's accurate, though..? If you buy a shirt that comes to you ripped, you would get a replacement; Paying for food (which can come out different every time) is no different, it's just how you say it.
Always be kind, courteous, thankful, & never rude to the waitstaff (bc it wasn't their fault).
Now if it isn't accurate, and you're just trying to get free food, then *obviously* that is wrong, of course.
"She's a poisonous little viper."
Tell me you're projecting without telling me you're projecting Amy.
The funny thing is, Amy herself was initially confused about the tables, so the server asking "Are you sure?" Was legitimate.
@@rebeccablackburn9487
Oh, I have no doubt that was a legitimate question. Amy strikes me as the type of person who dives headfirst into the most shallow end of the pool.
😆
Best part is that Vipers are venomous, not poisonous. She can't even get vocabulary right, did she really think she can understand running a business and cooking?
Did you really mean 'projecting', or did you mean 'protecting'?
Wonder if Amy was ever tought the difference between poisonous and venomous
Amy calling someone else poisonous when she's a walking septic tank who married a dusty gremlin for his money. I really feel bad for those three cats.
Me to but at least you can't emotionally abuse a cat or have a toxic living situation
@@olivegaming9386Well, screaming all the time and being angry actually does have a negative effect on animals, including cats. My friend knows someone, who neither of us like, who neglects and screams at his cat, and the cat was so stressed it needed medication 😢
Kitty is OK now but it's awful.
(Cat hissing)
Those poor cats never had a chance
Fugetaboutit
Some additional drama: It turned out the desserts that they had were all bought in. After the episode of Kitchen Nightmares aired, they blew up on facebook, posted several bonkers things, then claimed that they were hacked. Samy had some immigration issues as he hid his previous charges for drugs and extortion and the fact he was banned from entering France or Germany. He was deported and they are divorced now.
Good. Thanks for the information.
K, but what of Miranda
I heard about it too. That they bought the desserts and Amy just cut them into slices which in her mind Mean she made it.
I always wondered when she found time to make those desserts and run a restaurant.
I'm amazed they got divorced. They seemed like a real power couple :P
Is it safe to assume that this restaurant is no longer operating?
I always thought the way Amy did her eye makeup just brought out the crazy in her eyes even more.
Accentuates the crazy 🤣
@@ivisitthezoo Exactly! Lol!
She looks like a crazed fish woman from the Shark Tale movie
Alarmingly accurate.
I'm not saying that Amy looks like a panda, but I think that the producers should thank the Arizona zoo for lending her to them.
-Jimmy Carr in that one Countdown episode.
Those two locking themselves in a freezer to avoid the tv people for a private chat while still 100% mic'd up is art
When was this?
@@jwbfushs 16:22 it's here
Imagine getting fired for "Are you sure?" I'd burn down the restaurant and have Sammy Deported... Oh wait
HE GOT DEPORTED?!!!!
@@SimpyImphe had issues with US immigration because he had hidden previous drug charges & i think it was a violent crime charge that weren’t declared to US immigration, i don’t know if he ever got fully deported, but he did get in hot water for previous convictions and relations with organised crime so yeah, him saying he was a gangster may have been a subtle threat to mr ramsay
Yes he did n they live in another country now😂 good riddance
@@lucymueni3459They’re also apparently divorced now and Amy moved back to America.
Gordon pulls on the door, it's locked. Cameraman on the inside getting a shot of him pulling on the door: there's nothing I can do boss.
"Not my job, Sir."
They could have left that secretly from the previous filming or something lol
It's s Shane the camera man had to sleep there overnight
Imagine being married to that
@@TheFinalBoss25 *cocks shotgun* yeah I'd be out
Gordon: "You can't take criticism."
Amy: "What the f*ck do you mean I can't take criticism! Why are you attacking me! You're all stupid! How dare you question my ability to take criticism!"
Basically the logical equivalent of "I'M THE MOST HUMBLE PERSON I'VE EVER MET!" lmao
Too much punctuation. She’s speaks in run ons
My MiL acts like this.. thank god my husband realized how bad it truly was shortly after we got married 🤷🏻♀️
It’s funny cuz she even admitted she can’t
Women 🙄
"Dont call police! Are you crazy?!"
"Only Sammy is allowed to use the pos" (point of sales, a system to record orders, purchases and running credit/ debit)
Iykyk
Do you think the use of the POS was linked to possible illegal activities?
@RobinZasch seeing how he was a known launderer, yeah. He can rack up a bill, pay it himself with illegal tender and it seems like a typical cash transaction of an upscale bakery. That's why most drug dealers do a tip based job. They can call their illegal earnings as tips and depending on that service i.e. pizza delivery driver they can use the cash for gas and maintenance and write it off on their taxes.
Another big alarm for me was that they were constantly hiring people for certain duties, making them do totally random unrelated duties while they were "working," and then firing them shortly after. The clip of the guy who complained that he was hired as a food runner and instead was washing Sammy's car during dinner service was presented as "Look how narcissistic Sammy is!" but to me that's a telltale sign of laundering. They hired a "food runner" but didn't actually need a "food runner," they just needed a warm body to "pay."
why would he bring attention to himself with kitchen nightmares then if he was a money launderer? would that not make him the dumbest one alive to be bringing himself so much attention and the likelihood of getting himself caught
@@droplemmyI kind of understand the logic that might have been behind it. If they were doing tax fraud, they could say, "but look! we're on the brink of failing to the point where we even asked Gordon for help!". Not to mention they definitely expected Gordon to say their food was amazing - it would have given them the credibility they needed. It's just that things didn't go according to plan.
My favourite part about the follow-up episode was that it showed cut footage, and one part was how Amy would regularly complain how she'd need to clone herself several times to perfectly run the kitchen, but Katy and Miranda pointed out the Amy clones would kill eachother within minutes of service starting.
And then it came out that Amy didn't even make those desserts; She bought them, had them shipped to her, and then she unboxed and sold them as her own.
seriously?? when did that come out? i’ve never heard that 😭
@@yxgctybgvgfvfvfbh4663 After the show.
Yeah I heard about that
Oh you're kidding, that's hysterical
@@yxgctybgvgfvfvfbh4663 it was proven back in the day, almost right after the episode came out
Here's the thing about Gordan, he's not really an asshole, he just hates lazyness and complacency.
There was an episode of Hotel Hell where the owners had gotten really screwed over by life in general and were living out of one of the rooms. The hotel dominated their lives, they weren't lazy, they were just overwhelmed despite sacrificing everything. Gordan went above and beyond for them. No screaming, no freakouts, he just helped. Considering it was one of his American series where the conflict is usually dialed up to 11 as opposed to the UK versions, that really says a lot.
Is that the one where the wife had to be the chef at the restaurant? That was so sad. They really just fell on hard times. It was the best they could do. Gordon really did right by them in the episode.
That hotel hell episode was so sweet cause he knew the couple could have a good business but had their heads underwater and he did what he could to pull them up. From what I saw their hotel is still working and had good reviews
I saw that episode and loved it. Gordon is really a sweetheart.
Gordon actually IS what people who say "they tell it how it is" THINK they are. He always knows who he's talking to and what's appropriate. Hell go ballistic sure but it's never for no reason. If he's calling you a fucking idiot 99.99% of the time you just did something idiotic
There's a Kitchen Nightmares that shows that too. It had a hardworking, skilled owner, but it genuinely was a case of her starting her business at a bad time, with a bad location.
It's illegal to keep an employees tips in Arizonia. Unless it goes into a tip pool for bartenders, bussers, or other servers. It is illegal for any portion of tips to go to managers or the house. They should have called the states labor board.
The same in my state, Massachusetts. I had to call a manager out on that.
Not everybody knows their rights.
@@DVeritasif he didnt know at first he definitely found out after firing 100 people, ignorance prevailed i guess
I actually walked into this resturant before it went out of business. I was with my family, it was super busy, and it seemed like there were no tables and no one to seat us. A woman by the door said "don't bother waiting here the food isn't even that good" and gave us the address to a nice burger place a few streets down. Very nice burgers and we went back to that other restaurant multiple times.
It is odd that the restaurant was full if the food wasn't good. Were people really there for the experience?
@@TheNewRobotMaster It was the location I think. It was by a movie theater and a bunch of shops. My family stopped in because my mom wanted a pedicure at a nearby place and this was just a short walk from it at the strip mall/shopping center. So I think it was just convenient to stop in and get something to eat, even if it was mediocre or not that good. We would have stayed if there were any tables available just bc my mom didn't feel like hopping in the car and driving somewhere else but there was no tables and we got that warning so to the burger place we went.
@@demonninetaledfox Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.
I love how Gordon consistently stands up for servers and other underappreciated staff members at these restaurants. He knows that the problem starts with the owners and he doesn't like seeing employees get mistreated.
I would love it more if he had not gotten into legal trouble for one of his own restaurants failing to pay staff, not paying overtime, paying under minimum wage, and got banned from a hiring agency he used to use for failing to make payments.
❤
There have been a few occurrences where at least part of the fault lay with the servers and he, rightly, urged the owners to let them go
@@bloomleaf8310 I mean... to be fair that does prove his point...
@@polocatfan i mean my comment was in regards to Gordon running into those legal troubles, so none of that proves the original posts point?
I think Sammy sank a million into the restaurant, because he was laundering money through it. He has a long criminal history and has been kicked out of more than one country. I believe that it came out in the episode that she doesn't necessarily make all the cakes either.
yea everything about them is fake..
That’s why those little $10 tips make a difference when it’s all illegal
That is the only explanation that makes sense to me.
Also explains why he won't let the wait staff touch the POS system.
It’s true
Remember when Amy admitted on camera to making a pizza really spicy, just to hurt a customer out of spite? Considering this was in Arizona where such a stunt can land you up to 20 years in prison, it's a miracle her joint didn't close down years ago.
Also, threatening to hurt people if they send back your cake -- your store-bought cake -- brings a whole new meaning to the word narcissism.
The way Sammy follows up matter of fact “They are cats” after Amy explains the kids trapped in cat bodies always sends me
I always assumed Amy's Baking Company was a means of laundering money
It was ! Her husband is a illegal drug addict / dealer
Considering Sami's actual history of money crime, its very much possible
On Sammie end it was, maybe not Amy’s. Sammie put 1,000,000 into the company where tf would he get that money? Considering he’s forever barred from a few countries now the USA for drug trafficking crimes. So I think this restaurant is a drug front, given the ingredients are apparently frozen from Walmart and deserts are Sysco. Amy probably wanted be a chef but the drug front is on the back burner.
@ashleywilson5251 Amy has a criminal history, too. Credit card and identity fraud.
You’re not too far off, Sammy was involved in the mob.
my favorite thing about this episode is gordon is from a country that does not tip but even he knows its beyond tacky when the owner keeps the tips for themselves -- and YES I know it is theft, at least in most US states. Thank you to everyone who needed to inform me, especially the ones that talked down to me :) Love yall the most
Real
I'm fine with people actually paying their workers enough so customers don't have to tip, but if/when the customers do, don't take it from the server
Wild
Its not beyond tacky, he rightly calls it out as simple theft.
Not tacky, straight up illegal
It’s illegal. Tipped employees within restaurants are paid less per hour. The tips they make go towards their wage. If a supervisor, manager, or owner takes the gratuity or service charge it is a crime. A lot of restaurants get slapped with class action lawsuits because of wage/tip theft. Tipped employees are also taxed on this.
Call the labor board and document every time it happens. It's wage theft and not allowed in any state of the USA
Small clarification. It's not illegal to have non-tipped waitstaff as long as they make at least minimum wage hourly. What is illegal is allowing customers to give tips to the waitstaff and then taking them.
Yeah iirc the servers were making $10/hr back when that was pretty damn good for a waiting job
I've seen other comments stating that taking tips from the wait staff is illegal in Arizona. Even if that's not true, customers are tipping under the impression that's the only way the wait staff gets paid, because that's the way it commonly works in the US. How much they tip is meant to be reflective of the service those specific people are providing.
So they're paying extra for something under false pretenses, unlike in European countries where everyone's salary is worked into the price of the meal. It's illegal at worst and dodgy at best, no matter what.
@kimd7835 that's what I said. They have the option to say no tips and that's legal as long as they pay them enough, but once they allow customers to tip the waitstaff they can't then go and take those tips from the waitstaff like they allegedly did here.
@@FormerRuling sorry yeah, in hindsight I should have directed that more to the guy replying to you
All the waitresses look so young and wholesome and frightened- making Amy seem even MORE like the Evil Queen/Stepmother, lol this episode was TV gold
I thought it was revealed on the show, but those baked goods were bought from someone else. I remember Gordon wondering why there were no baking ingredients or items in the kitchen.
It was theu admitted to just buying from other places and lying to customers
And it's called Amy's Baking Company 😂 More like... Assholes who are Bad at Cooking
It was never proven on the show but it came out in the aftermath. I think someone made the connection to whoever actually made the cakes.
They seem like an emotionally balanced and grounded couple who understands interpersonal expression and constructive problem solving. Also... cocaine.
Surprisingly, they actually divorced. I'd say there's no way she'd find someone else who would put up with her but people like her somehow trick men into it despite how obviously crazy they are to everyone.
There's no tricking necessary, some people actually find this level of conflict and confrontation attractive and want a relationship like this. Shit is wild
@@bradblumhof6917 She reads as being overwhelmed by fear. Fear of being accepted. Respected. Listened to. Loved. Liked etc. Her histrionic lashing out is a defense mechanism she uses to keep people at a distance. She feins aggression, but it's based completely on fear. Her inability to take any sort of criticism is insecurity based. Her not accepting responsibility is her way of hiding from accountability.
Her husband was doing the exact wrong thing. Being codependent and shielding her from her faults while showing her that he's willing to defend her weaknesses and therefore keeping her from changing and growing. He was hungry for her happiness and love, but he was actually only helping her to be miserable. It's good they went their separate ways.
@bradblumhof6917 damn man. I was going to say thanks to Sammy all the rest of the men dodged a bullet with her, but fuck she's back on the market.
😂😂😂 nailed it
2:45 I love how the lady beat him to his own punchline 🤣☠️
Samy: "It's your first time?"
Lady: "Last time."
Samy: "And last time. Don't come back madame!"
She committed a felony while being recorded for TV, overspicing food on purpose is food tampering
The way she talked to the server made me want to rip HER hair out. It was lowkey aggression at that point, but she was reprimanding her for doing her job. That has always irritated me. I've also come to appreciate Gordon's gentleness when dealing with the people who aren't the problem. He has the reputation for screaming, which he does do and it's kept me from watching most of his shows, but it's nice to see that wasn't all there was.
Watch the UK Kitchen Nightmares, he doesn't spice up the rage like he did for the US version. He's a lot more like you'd expect someone to conduct themselves.
Yea the shouting is largely a production decision for the US version of the show. I agree with the previous reply that I think you'd prefer the UK version. He's really sweet to some of the staff he deals with in that series.
Gordon isn't a screaming monster barging into restaurants like a beast. He's a man that LOVES food, and HATES people that think they know/loves food. He's never yelled at a waitress who was innocent of contributing to the issue. Even on the UK Kitchen Nightmares he's WAAAAY more casual and understanding, the episode with the lady that had a soul food restaurant in the UK was a SUPER wholesome one.
Worse than that. She told her to walk away. Then got mad at her for doing exactly that
Lowkey... That's just straight personal aggression to that poor girl
In case you were wondering, their restaurant closed in 2015... And in 2018 they moved to Israel after Samy was deported... Apparently, Samy has a history of drug and extortion charges and had been fighting a case since 2008, which concluded in 2018.
And in 2022, they got a divorce, with her returning to The States, and Samy remaining in Israel.
... oh. he's an Israeli? that makes sense...
@@ianianio IKR?? It explains SO much. Lmao
@@ianianio
wow just being antisemitic on main? real cool
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that he made a lot of money evicting Palestinians and then selling their homes to Israelis.
@@McBehrerit’s about him being Israeli, not him being Jewish.
I'll be fair: Gordon doesn't really try to destroy the companies, unlike a lot of other shows out there: He does legitimately try to help them out and clearly puts in a lot of work in every restaurant that he visits. I do get wanting paid for being on a TV show, but on the other hand what's more important: A bit of money upfront, or your entire business literally being saved by the most popular chef in the world?
A lot of the time the show also pays for seemingly very expensive renos/equipment for the restaurant
@@leahbrigeman9252Not to mention bringing publicity. People go to the restaurant when they hear Gordon Ramsay is coming, and it’s an excellent way to show the redemption and earn repeat customers. He also sets up community events to promote the relaunch.
Unfortunately some, too many, restaurants fall back into bad habits or are just too far gone (such as being in too much debt) for even Ramsay to save.
16:29 Fun Fact! All Walk-In Freezers have emergency handles on the inside in case someone gets locked in!
I never understood that whole "stuck in the freezer" trope. Was that really a thing that could happen at one point?
@@IkeFanBoy64
Well, I would assume that it's a fear a lot of people have, especially if you were unaware of an emergency handle on the inside. Or if the emergency handle AND the regular handle was busted. So i get why a lot of people would be afraid of that. Add on the fact that 20 years ago, not everyone was walking around with a portable phone.
So it's definitely an understandable fear, but its a LOT less likely nowadays to be stuck in a walk-in freezer for more than 30 minutes. The trope is basically out-dated in modern television, unless the person who's trapped doesn't have their smartphone or the batteries are dead.
@@atomicko That still feels like one of those tropes you hear about but have never heard actually happen.
Well here's a little problem, well it happened to me, but many restaurants have a prohibition that employees must keep their cell phone in the locker and in poorly maintained or poorly cleaned freezers tend to stuck.
I worked in a KFC for 8 damn months (worst mistake of my life) and once I got stuck for 2 hours, obviously the door got stuck (the handle to be exact) and I still wonder how come nobody noticed that I wasn't at my post for 2 hours.
Luckily I like the cold and I was wearing the dirty safety jacket but I learned that getting stuck in a freezer is very easy.
@KodeKhot worked at arbys for a few years, on the earlier side we had someone jokingly lock a coworker in the walk in fridge (I wasn't there that shift), the coworker decided to ram the door as hard as he could to escape and snapped the emergency release bolt. Never got fixed so we could never lock the fridge after that
The "Sammy thinks he is the only one doing anything, but he's just messing everything up" line is absolutely managers I have had lmao
I also love when the staff tells Gordon shit, he'll ask them and they'll be like "This is literally the worst food ever made, they grind up sewer rats for the food, they pay me in Amazon gift cards, and the boss cheats on his wife in the back." Owners taking staff's tips is like the worst thing you can do to Ramsay, and as someone who used to work at a place that did that; I really like how mad it makes him (and its also illegal). God I wish one of those "Um actually" people would have been there to tell Amy that vipers are venomous and not poisonous.
I am one of those "its venomous!" people lol I have it on a t shirt, even. My eye twitched when she said that lol
when the staff starts singing like songbirds to gordon that's how you KNOW it's gonna be a good episode
I mean the only thing I'd assume would be even worse for him is intentionally poisoning customers, which she also technically did with the spicy pizza (like she said she hopes it hurts him).
I pity their cats, imagine if they find out the cat knocked of something or scratched a furniture... you know how cats do. You know this behavior isnt only in the restaurants
They're probably messed up enough to have declawed their cats instead of training them.
On a more serious note, Amy holds the exact same behaviour that my narcissistic mother had.
The deflecting, lampshading, guilt tripping and victimization of herself is so reminiscent of arguments with my own mother where I had to omit details and sugarcoat in order to save the guilt tripping yelling
What’s so funny about this is they *BUY* the desserts pre made, she doesn’t even bake them 🤣
That's insane. 😂😂 Like they're cosplaying on another level.
@@bethanychatman9531 Yep, they're already decorated too but she felt justified calling them hers because she added a little more.
She's a baking chef
@@Subparfatyeah...she's a "chef" alright when all she does is get pre-made food for her restaurant.
"who is she" someone who doesn't have a million dollar bet in a failing business. She will have a new job in a week. Amy on the other hand gets deported with her husband.
Not how deportation works lmao she's a legal US citizen, she can't just be deported.
Amy is a US citizen. She didn't get deported. She voluntarily left with him.
@@kylemendoza8860she deported herself 😂😂😂
@@megand12345
Yes she did. I have seen other people in the comment saying that they divorced and she returned to the United States. She seems like the type that would last that info all over social media. So if it's true I'm sure it's out there.
At my restaurant, we once had a waiter asking if the table was correct and the guy working the line stopped. Read the ticket and said "You're all good, you can run it," and immediately went back to making plates. How hard is that?
I think the true treasure of this episode is that, if you don't know about the ending going in, the pacing of the whole episode feels off. It's subtle at first, but when you realise that you're not going through the normal sections at the normal speed, the dawning horror is delicious.
Something that people don't usually know about Amy's Baking Company was that it was actually a fairly popular target by trolls on 4Chan before Gordon ever went to the place. Like, for a year or two there'd be wild rumours about this weird restaurant where the owners would shout at people and respond to every negative review, and it became a thing that they'd try to get pictures of the restaurant's owners doing something crazy.
So, when they're saying things like "Oh, there's a conspiracy to shut us down and harass us," that wasn't them overreacting, they were already considered lolcows and already being targeted, the Kitchen Nightmares episode just introduced them to more people.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Of course if they had stopped feeding the trolls there is a possibility the harassment would have stopped but honestly who knows. Sometimes 4chan sinks its teeth in and refuses to let it go. They often go after totally innocent people too, but being hilariously reactive does increase risk of being targetted.
@@mommalion7028right it's not like they were innocent victims. They didn't take way too long on dishes, yell at customers on the regular, steal tips from wait staff and both showed to have incredibly thin skin because of some trolls, it was just put on a more prominent display.
It started because of her actions harassing that dude online after her husband rudely responded to that customers complaint. It still all boils down to their own bullshit.
I got in long, pointless, time-wasting fights with Amy on Facebook several times back in the day because between her narcissism and my experience in the industry, it was SO easy to bait her. I got Sammy on the phone once too. So much fun trolling those two. ...and they 1,000% deserved it.
Barbara Streisand effect in action😂😂😂😂
Anyone else get the feeling that she is so insanely jealous of that server? When her name gets brought up she throws a tantrum worse than her regular ones lol.
Probably because people actually like the server
Everything has to be about her
It's much more likely that she was embarrassed that Gordon took the server's side. She wanted to impress Gordon and she knew she blew it so she lashed out.
Amy: "What's wrong with the food?"
Gordon: *describes what's wrong with the food*
Amy: *dial-up internet noises* "There's nothing wrong with the food, you're just wrong!"
Isn't taking the hard earned tips from your employees like, illegal? It seems illegal, and if it is not, it sure as heck is immoral.
it is 100% illegal in all 50 states
It is illegal. In the written labor laws, tips are included under wages. Even "celebrity" chefs have been sued for withholding tips from their servers and lost.
@@rebeccablackburn9487 Oh in that case the employees should sue but depending on the statue of limitation perhaps it would already be late. Dang it.
Supposedly if paying actual minimum wage not server minimum wage it isn't, but it's also scummy as fuck to not tell customers where their tip will go.
@@stefanmilicevic5322Unfortunately it's ofen far to costly to sue someone especially if your already underpaid. If you steal they call the cops if your boss steals you have to spend a crap ton of money for the possibility of getting some form of compensation.
When Gordon Ramsey says directly to you: “Don’t, FUCK, with me!” you better pray he’s feeling nice enough that day to not make a 5 Star Dish with your shattered teeth. 😂
I love that Amy had the GALL to say SAMMY was going to hurt Gordon.
As though the drug dealer wouldn't go down before he could blink.
Ramsey is JACKED
Gordon does Karate, boxing, and MMA.
He'll send your ass into orbit.
Looks like Sammy thinks he’s in The Godfather 😂
Strangely enough, Sammy is a no-bullshit gangster who fled his home country for protection.
@@linksbetweendrinks7032 source?
I remember hearing there was evidence of his mafia connection and a few years after the episode, he got in trouble for stabbing someone. The only thing I could find, for sure though (after like 3 minutes of googling), was that he was deported back to Israel.
It's cause he's dealing with random jerk offs at his restaurant... all he did to Ramsey was yell some empty threats and then do nothing ... he's just a bitter old crook who's way past his prime ... just cause you do some white collar theft doesn't make you a gangster
He's a angry man, and his wife thinks he's a total bad ass, bro your 65years old, Gordon Ramsey is a Englishmen the have mad squabbles, you really think he hasn't had to defend himself from a drunk hooligan 🤔
The height of maturity.
She called someone a "little weenie"😶
They're both unhinged.
I can only come to the conclusion that Sammy IS a gangster, and the restaurant is a money laundry gig.
I'm no doctor, but i think there may be some mental health issues that need to be addressed.
Good call ha ha
Or maybe a drug problem?
Drug problems are a mental health issue, genius.
@@justinwatson1510 true, but that's a bit unnecessarily aggressive of a response lmfao
@@Jane-oz7ppit's OK he's just on mental health issues
6:46 I love how that guy just laughs when Amy says she makes excellent food. And if you want another episode, Cafe Hon would be interesting.
But Cafe Hon did really well, they only closed cause lady retired.
This the one where she trademarks the name hon and sues those who use it right?
@@anotheruser133Yup.
is that the 1 with the bellydancers?
@@dualcaster No.
I still genuinely believe that Sammy had no idea what a reality TV show was when she signed them up for it and was genuinely using a restaurant that gets no business and the POA system to launder money while keeping his wife occupied.
It also turns out that the good cakes on display were in fact not made by Amy like she claimed. It was made by some local bakery and she just doubled the price and sold them as her own. Someone working at the bakery reached out after the episode aired and thanked Gordon for the compliments along with giving this information.
I wish ABC was still open. It would have been awesome for Chris to cutscene to him sitting in the restaurant with Samy yelling at him.
Amy was never told no or disciplined as a child. As you can tell.
If she didn't have a rich husband, she won't make it long as a worker in anything.
Either never disciplined, or seriously over-disciplined.
And her husband was the same ! Illegals have that ability to feel no remorse and tend to make everyone around them suffer
Her husband is 1000x worse. But of course you're blind to that, John.
@@ky9933 You must be on your period or something. lol
Man, if that's a "poisonous little viper", I'd love to meet and befriend every single one in the world.
"I have a god given talent for cooking" *literally serves raw food and food she bought from someone else*
literally the "no soup for you" episode of Seinfeld
Except he made *good* soup lmao
That's exactly what I thought 😂 @@brennenlee488
Soup Nazi made amazing soup though. It was worth it to submit to him.
No, this is Kitchen Nightmares. Completely different show.
@@robertbeecroft5570I think “literally” means something different than what he thinks it means.
Sammy actually is insane and is banned from a shit ton of countries. He ended up getting deported (which is why he stopped Amy from calling the cops because he was already here illegally) and he ended up getting deported and moved back to Israel and Amy went with him. She is still running a “baking company”.
But amy divorced him and she at moment on her own.
“Cooking” the books!
Fun fact. After this episode aired Sammy attack a person with a knife
@@MASTEROFEVILoh my god, seriously?!
@@ChunkyMonst3r Yeah it was all over UA-cam and TikTok. He chased a person with a butchers knife
23:36 The doors are locked - no one is inside, er, except for the cameraman who got the shot FROM INSIDE of Gordon trying the locked door! 😂
Yeah, the editing on this show was always whack. The sound editing was also really bad. I think even Hell's Kitchen had a better editing team. And don't get me started on how the producers (AKA Gordon himself) would very-obviously coach the young female servers to say something about how hot Gordon is 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Why is it so hard to imagine that it's not a manned camera
Seriously, I've seen people who's first explanation was "Oh, that was clearly a reenactment done after the door was unlocked", as opposed to the much simpler explanation of "It's just a camera thats already been set up and doesn't need a cameraman"
I find it funny that the show blurs out the mouth one saying the cuss words, but doesn’t bleep out the cuss word
It’s uncensored on UA-cam. But when it was on tv it had the beeps.
“Where’s the pizza?”
“It’s in the oven, he can SUCK IT”
Wtf 😂
oh, Amy's Baking Company.
A classic story of a couple of abusive narcissists trying and failing to pretend like they want to try to improve.
“It wasn’t 50. It was worse. It was 100.”
Well, at least for once he was being honest.
You definitely should do an episode of Hotel Hell. That show is obsessed with Gordon's naked ass
im pretty sure hes a producer of that show tho as well 😂
YES! The one with the couple who lived in the RV and had all the worthless "priceless" antiques...
Should do Karen the Kitchen Poop Witch episode
Do the hotel Chester episode I used to live right next to it
🤨
Amy reminds me of Dee from It's Always Sunny but is somehow even more unhinged 😂
Yea I thought that too 😂😂
All Dee does is take criticism 😂
Oh my god i knew she reminded me of someone 😂
Yeah but dee is prettier and a better person
@@philswift795 she's not a person, she's a bird.
I want to go to the restaurant, order just a drink (if they can't screw it up or just soda), then watch the drama.....
Last I heard Sammy was deported, the restaurant closed, and Amy just complains on social media.
26:36 "Nobody is listening to me!" Ma'am, you literally aren't letting anyone else talk.
I have never wanted to be a fly on the wall in anyone's life more than Sammy and Amy theyre just so demented
Might end up in one of the drinks, lol.
Alright I have never comment on any video of yours yet but wow. The line “ she’s throwing accents around like she does ingredients on a burger” slayed me
This restaurant was so bad, that it's the only one in the entire history of this show that Ramsay walked out on. That's an impressive level of terrible.
I do love how respectful Gordon is to servers cuz he knows that poor girl just needs the job
" A small business loan of 1 million dollars" - a President
He takes criticism as well as Amy
@@Womper1992Ain't that the truth, they both love to call people dumb names and make fun of their appearances but as soon as someone says anything to them...
That's just crumbs... According to NP 🤣
@@thestraydogcare to give examples)
@@ChaosAngel9151 Tricky Nicky, Lyin' Ted, Sleepy Joe, Beijing Biden, Lazy Jeb, Little Marco, I can go on and on. Ron Desanctimonious, Crooked Hillary, etc.
chris PLEASE do mill st bistro!!! it's two parts and it's the most quotable episode ever. it's got everything. waitresses that hate the place, a weird menu, a crazy owner, MICRO CARROTS!!! even if you don't make a vid on it, you have to see those episodes at least once in your life.
Worst episode of Kitchen Nightmares? Nah bro, you're looking at it the completely long way. Amy and Samy absolutely deserved to be clowned on and this episode provided that.
One of the restaurants my family frequents has a waiter that actually CAN remember every order. Not only does he remember everyone’s drinks, appetizers and mains, he doesn’t even have to ask who gets what when he brings it out, he remembers that too! And yes, even if it’s a table of 12+. Absolute legend
Sounds like an eidetic memory if he's doing it perfectly every time without any mistakes.
@@shadenox8164 yeah, that’s what I thought lol. He also gets jokingly mad when someone changes their order or people switch seats after he’s taken them bc that’s the only thing that might trip him up, but even then it’s rare.
Rewatching this episode reminded me of my first restaurant job out of school. Couldnt keep a chef, money was so poorly managed by the owner cuz he drank it all, no one got checks for fucking months and i got evicted cuz i wasnt getting my checks and my second job couldnt pay the bills. Yeah, fuck that place.
Id argue this one wasnt a failure. It just shows how some dreams just arent meant to be achieved, and thats okay
I’ve always been curious why people stay when checks aren’t coming. Is it out of loyalty or just a shit job market
Why tf would you keep showing up for a job that isn’t paying you?
its usually psychologically abusing vulnerabe people@@liz5089
I would say you're wrong about your final coclusion but also very sorry you got whiffed by your first ever job...I got paid two weeks late for mine and ate porridge the whole time.
My mom was a server for like 10 years and then the owner unalived herself. Her son took over and ran the place into the ground, used it as his piggy bank, and was a huge druggie.
It was so sad to see.
As a chef of 20 years, I'm finally ducking out. I'm doing something else come next week that's better pay, significantly easier work and it was offered to me because of my reputation in the past 20 years. I've worked all over Canada Coast to Coast. Fine Dining to Dive Bars. The industry is on a downwards trend in 10 years it might be something different. However the old guard got to let go of their dying businesses. This business is beyond toxic and exhausting with excessive poor treatment. No room to expand and less owners even offer profit sharing like it was 20 years ago. It was depressing.
The standards of working really have lowered so much across industries in America that restaurants really, REALLY suck now
The best piece of advice I ever got about cooking jobs is: Don't be a cook or a chef. Be a baker. A chef or a cook is going to be underpaid, treated like shit and expected to do free labour on top because chefs are a dime a dozen these days. There's no bargaining power. The hours are rough, the conditions are rough and the competition is rough.
Fuck cheffing, bake instead.
@@Jane-oz7pp I work in a bakery as a Culinary Manager with a fellow Baker who knows less than me and who owns and operates the business. He uses recipes that he was taught in Bakery school and has no creativity or passion other than to put on his uniform and tell others he's a baker.
One of the reason I have to leave.
I have 20 years no business to call my own
He has 5 years experience and his own bakeshop and doesn't know how to run it.
However since I'm not paid enough to run his business I simply manage the Culinary side. However like I said though I just recieved a job that is 4 x the pay, a 1/4 of the work and in my industry is considered retirement.
I'm excited for life again.
Well now i’m invested… Congratulations! Hope all goes well!🤗
@@paige. thank you. A new chapter. I'm still tied to the industry but I'm doing something a lot healthier for my mental health now. Thankfully because of my work ethic and not burning any bridges all my work relationships will benefit me going forward.
Amy and Samy just... lived in their own realities, clearly.
Gordon sounded genuinely disappointed when he left, both because he knew that Amy's incapability of taking criticism (and just being a textbook Karen) was gonna doom the restaurant, and because he completely wasted his time there.
EDIT: And the fact that Samy has the backbone of an invertebrate (which is to say, he has none) and can't just be real with Amy. And fights customers when they have legitimate concerns.
The realism you bring to this episode is peak. Holy fuck. Thought I was going into a standard Amy’s baking company trash talk video but you showed the pure lunacy the restaurant operates on is top tier
I've heard the cake was actually bought, sliced up, and resold
Yeah of course. Amy would have to work all day to prepare all that stuff and yet she’s only just cooking at lunch and dinner. No way she has enough time to do all that when she takes forever to make pizza.
I was JUST thinking about binging Kitchen Nightmares again when your video popped up, great timing and hilarious commentary as always!
The tip thing makes me more furious than anything else, because if I as a customer tip my waiter, I intend that money to go to my waiter, not to the rich scumbags exploiting them. These bastards literally just stole money from all of their customers and employees, and then had the gall to say that the employee who tried to keep the tip was the one stealing. I'm so glad their business failed, and I'm glad that people continue to make a public mockery of them all these years later, because that's exactly what they deserve.
Person from Arizona here so interesting facts about that couple and their job history. So that restaurant was shut down by the health department and their license to own an operate any business was revoked. They then thought of reopening a new restaurant without the legal authorization and they got shut down for a second time then they tried to move to Tucson Arizona and got rejected to being able to buy or rent any building because they were attempting to open another restaurant without legal authorization. They then moved to California and got shut down 7 times for the same shit. Then they moved to Colorado before going to jail again for the same stupid shit.
Surprised they had time to do all that. Cuz I know I wasn't too long after that show they left the country. Do you know what became of the space of ABC?
Then samy got his ass deported and they move to Israel since samy is banned from nearly everywhere and amy got a restaurant started out there but they divorced and amy went back home and trail ends there for now but i am highly sure she may had tried yet again to open a new restaurant
@@evandaymon8303
Do we have any idea why they divorced? A machine like a person that would blast her version of events on social media.
@@kylemendoza8860Dunno the actual motivation, but I'm certain anyone living on the block they resided in could provide a blow by blow. This was not likely to go down quietly.
@@kylemendoza8860 Beats me pal. That's all we know, and we should respect their privacy. just know they are divorced and Amy return to the states afterwards. (Because Amy is a legal US citizen and Samy isn't she only left the states to be with him, but I guess things didn't work out especially considering Samy is a criminal who track record is massive he is banned from many countries for drug dealing apparently.)
Kitchen Nightmares is a gem.
Outside of his travel shows, Gordon is an absolute nightmare on every cooking show he's made. Save for one: Master Chef Junior. He is so sweet, gentle, and paternal with those kids that I genuinely smile the whole way through it.
@@linksbetweendrinks7032Yeah. Although a part of me wants to see him ream them out like he does the adults. 😂
“It’s ROTTEN!!”
“I’ve eaten this!!”
😂😂
@@linksbetweendrinks7032I do have to say, through UA-cam I learned in the comments that his European version of the show is so much kinder and after binging it for months now it's very true. I know he plays it up for his American audience
NINOooOooOO
The UK version has probably the most wholesome moments in "reality TV" history.
But that's not what we're here for. Bring on the train wrecks!
I’m so glad you did a video on this episode, I watched it and immediately thought it would be Chris James gold!!
Been with you since 10k subs, loved to see ya grow, keep up the good work
I lose faith in humanity every single day, without exception.
Then there are the windows of time where there is a brand new Chris James upload.
Those...those are good times.
There are some restaurants, esp higher end ones, that pay their servers a fair wage and therefore do not require tipping ("gratuity is included with the price of the meal" might be something you see/hear), but it is also CLEARLY STATED in writing everywhere a customer could see it: on the menus, on the bill, the receipt. The bill won't even have a place to calculate a tip. The servers will tell them that. The fact that we never see any evidence that Gordon sees that information anywhere tells me that Sammy and Amy aren't TELLING customers this and they are still being prompted to tip. Even if they were paying servers 20 an hour, that is what would still make it dodgy.
Yep, the customer is giving that money to the server. They need to be told if that's not happening.
It is widely speculated that Samy made his money illicitly before he immigrated to America. He apparently served time overseas, and is banned from entry in France and Germany.
the way she said "there's a lot of online haters and bloggers" makes it sound like she just doesn't like random bloggers in general
I remember this one. Easily the worst restaurant owners in terms of just awful human beings
"I've since grown up and realized the world is a black hole that sucks up dreams..."
Chris has certainly mastered the "what am I doing with my life" face to go with that realization. Seriously, the expressions are some of the best part of these vids.
Also, that lady has the perfect blend of thin skin + lack of self-reflection. Perfectly disastrous, that is.
"Sammy is going to hurt him!" that man couldn't scratch Ramsey if he wanted to
Chris love your channel have you ever seen edge of Alaska. Feel that be a good one to do. Keep it up man.
Who would work around Amy with knives around?
Based on the turnover they were getting, pretty much no one
If it makes anyone feel better, Sammy got deported back to Isreal in 2018, and she went with. Makes me feel great 👍
They have a nice little boardwalk bakery
I thought I saw somewhere that they divorced.
With the state of things.... not surprised he is Israeli, the aggression is magnified for the world now. He was only afraid of losing America. As America is afraid of calling their country out now
These people are so beyond unhinged. I just saw a comment posted on their official business Facebook page (yes, they replied *to every troll with their official page because of course they did* lmao) and it said this (yes in all caps):
"I AM WONDER WOMAN. I AM A GREAT CHEF, A GREAT WIFE, AND A GREAT MOM TO MY KIDS. AND WE WILL BE PARENTS TO A HUMAN KID, ONE DAY TO. WE WILL SHOW ALL OF YOU."
as an old mike'c mic fan, the "it's christmas let's go home" absolutely knocked me on my ass
I love how that woman says "THREE fruit flies" as if it were only one or two it would have been fine