The staff was great, this is one of the rare times in Kitchen Nightmares where the kitchen staff was actually good, the kitchen wasn’t a mess, it just didn’t have a system and it was Shelly’s way.
This episode was a roller-coaster of highs and lows, the Red Velvet cake part was extremely sweet and wholesome, highly quotable dialogue from Gordon and of course insinuating Gordon Ramsey planted a dead rodent. It's really got it all!
The missing roof tiles are for set lighting and cameras. The kitchen nightmares crew did that and they fix it before they leave, you can see them in a lot of episodes
Thanks for that context, that makes sense since the production schedule consists of an advance team setting cameras up everywhere so they can get footage of how the restaurant operates before Gordon arrives. I’ve noticed the omni-directional cams in roof tiles of other restaurants on the show
I feel like if anyone deserved their restaurant to keep falling it's Shelly, but on the other hand I feel so sorry for her mum. She definitely didn't deserve to be screwed over with her money like that. Considering that cake too, she probably could've had a successful bakery or dessert shop.
Well Shelly is now working as a school chief "lead" or somewhere around that order, might be in a hospital or something. Where the chief she punched down all those years has a career of a successful chief. Shows just how much care Shelly really has and the lack of anything ambitious outside of her comfort of control.
This is the moms fault. The daughter didn’t forever her to spend the money. The daughter could of got a loan from a bank…. Probably didn’t have good credit. A lesson for parents. Be honest with ur kids.
You can tell she worked her *ss off to make sure her daughter had more than she did growing up... Sadly, you're usually away and end up with a ungrateful, spoiled child. Just the fact she was dating that young guy and had the nerve to have him working there is a problem. Had he been half investor and they did it together, worked on accounting, ordering (talking directly to chefs), outside of the restaurant. Now to find out her mom invested her retirement, i'm heartbroken. Had Sheely used her own money maybe it would have been different, or worse, who knows.@@KyokujiFGC
Who knows how she was in her youth, you know, children do learn their basic instincts from their parents like being stubborn and all, but being absolutely build was totally her, not giving a crap how to run a business but just satisfying her ego, just get a chef if you are bad at cooking and server the tables or bus them.
Chitterlings are absolutely a thing, my neighbor used to make them all the time and my grocery store sold a ton of them. They have to be cleaned VERY THOROUGHLY or else they stink to high heaven when they're cooked.
@@triggeredcat120 it's country food aka soul food. The working class and slaves ate these foods because they found ways to make things noone else wanted delicious. Japanese. food is the same. Btw southern/soul food is delicious And no thry absolutely arent supposed to look like that
One of the chefs said the collard greens tasted like "peppered soil". Collard greens usually taste like dirt/soil if they're not cleaned properly. You also have to clean chitlins super well before cooking them cus they're, well, intestines and they stink when you cook them. So if they didn't bother to clean their collard greens, I bet they didnt clean their chitlins either. Sorry, shitlins 💩
Maybe this is my migraine talking but the thought of eating intestines makes me sick. I think I'll pass. Thanks. That just doesn't sound good to me. Then again maybe I'm wrong, maybe they are good but no thanks.
@@cmpvariety1764 they can be good if cleaned properly but yeah i get you, i also get funny feelings in throat whenever i eat shrimps because i had one too many encounters with people who dont clean the literal shit off the shrimps.
The people running this restaurant were definitely among the most annoying to have been on the show, along with the jerk chicken doctor and the maine lobster scammer
Watch Calumet Inn which is from Hotel Hell. There are 2 spoiled sisters who took care the hotels. The oldest was 32 years old crybaby and even gone for 3 months while the youngest was 27 years old lazy and irresponsible.
A point I have heard Gordon make in one episode was "As a restaurant, you need to be making food that's BETTER than what people can make at home". So even if the food that some of these restaurants serve would pass as decent if a relative made it for you at home, the point of going to a restaurant is for the better than home cooked food. It's gotta be worth the customer's time and money.
@@TheBluePony3 💯 . I remember that quote! He's also pointed out is that restaurant food should be priced about 4 times what it cost to make so that you can make profit and cover overhead and everything. I always keep that in mind when going to a restaurant. Not only does the food have to be better than what I can cook at home, I have to be willing to pay 4 times what it's worth. We don't eat out much. You can get a Tomahawk steak at Costco for 55 bucks and feed a family of 4 and have a bone for the dog. It Takes some effort and it's best done on the grill. You just have to take your time and get used to timing. Throw in 5 bucks of potatoes, butter, milk and chives and you have a 60-70 dollar meal that YOU KNOW is fresh, cooked in a clean kitchen or on a clean grill, a treat for the dog and its fucking delicious. At a restaurant, they would charge you at least 50 bucks for a single plate of steak and potatoes. Smh. I can make a giant thing of spaghetti for about 10 bucks. It lasts our small family 3 days. No way I can find even a single serving for 10 bucks. And don't get me started on lasagna. It's more expensive to make than spaghetti. Maybe 15 bucks but it makes such a giant amount that you can feed several people and have left overs. Not to mention that it costs about 2 dollars to make a giant batch of cookies (after dividing up the cost of a pound of flour and a pound of butter and all that) or that MOST people already have everything they need in their kitchen to make a cake with a simple frosting. Got going. Lol. Tldr cook more. It's cheaper. And you eventually get really good at it and get to the point where you can just sort of make stuff up. If you go out to eat, know that you can probably do better with practice. Unless it's sushi because that shit is hard. Everything has to be absolutely perfect and single pieces are cheaper than buying sushi grade salmon. Omg I need to stop replying while fasting. Lol
“You should take your restaurant and stick it. I’m gone.” Mother Mary cared so much for the business that Gordon stayed because of her and the staff as well since all of them really wanted the restaurant to succeed. I’m just so glad that Sous Chef Mateen had a good career as an executive chef. What I would die for to get a taste of Mary’s Red Velvet Cake 🍰 😋
I'm glad Shelly's mom is not spoiling her but she's always telling her right in her face what to do and what to not to do. She's even calling her daughter "A spoiled woman" or something.
Makes me wonder what the daddy did… maybe he was the spoiler/enabler. It’s possible the mum was very overindulgent towards at one time or both folks were guilty of spoiling her in the past & she was simply trying to right her prior wrongs, which is a noble thing to do. Showed tht she really loved her. Maybe the father was absent & made up for it by giving in to her demands as this is not real love. Then again, I’m only making creative speculations. it’s plausible that she was born this way or some unfortunate stuff happened to her that was out of anybody’s control. However this is NOT an excuse for her behavior!
It makes me wonder how she was raised or if she just happens to be that way… always being critiqued at home can lead one to be very defensive of the things they do once they’re grown.
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE SHE TOLD HER MOM WHEN SHE WENT IN TO TALK TO THAT DISRESPECTFUL HEFFA KNOWN AS HER DAUGHTER SAID "MOM, WILL YOU GET OUT OF MY FACE?" WHUUT? WTF DOES THAT?😳😨😳😰 HAD I SAID THAT TO MY MOMS, I WOULD BE RESIDING IN THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL. SHE TOTALLY DISSED HER MOTHER. CHILE, IF I HAD SUDDENLY BECOME CLINICALLY INSANE AND SAID THAT TO MY MOMS, SHE WOULD HAVE KNOCKED TF OUT OF ME SO TOUGH I'D BE WAKING UP IN MY NEXT LIFE (IN THE AFOREMENTIONED SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL😮). HER MOM INVESTED HER ENTIRE RETIREMENT FUND. EVERYTHING THAT SWEET WOMAN WORKED FOR. I COULDN'T IMAGINE THE SOUL CRUSHING HEARTBREAK IN THAT SWEET WOMAN'S HEART. I HAVE A FEELING SHELLY WAS A SPOILED 'DADDY'S GIRL'..I PAID ATTENTION WHEN HER MOM WAS ON THE PHONE WITH SHELLEY'S DAD - AFTER MOMS SAID WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY, SHE STRAIGHT HUNG UP IN HER HUSBAND'S FACE WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE. VERY TELLING.
I can confirm as someone who ate there before that Blackberries did indeed have a mouse problem. I remember sitting in one of the booths there and between the booths and the wall was a tiny alcove in which I noticed a dead mouse. We left afterwards lol.
“ignorant” says it all. Especially with denial with an undertone of violence. People like this use shame and violence to try and control others. This is why when these types approach you need to be prepared for all outcomes.
Shelly is a prime example of a spoiled brat. She can do no wrong, she's the "queen" of everything in her life except owning her mistakes or even admitting that she has ever made one.
Those kind of people (like Shelly) are perpetual victims. They can do no wrong, everything bad that happens to them is out of their control and they will never apologize for anything.
She honestly seems kind of like a narcissist. She has a pre-program that everyone and everything has to follow, where she's on top, and when this is challenged she gets aggressive and often refuses to take responsibility, especially woth the mouse bit. She did seem to welcome some of the changes made, but given they shut down with some pretty harsh reviews prior to shutting down, her saying she would consider the changes mightve just been her keeping up appearances to look better.
It's textbook narcissism. Arrogant, manipulative, and passive aggressive, while always playing the victim and having no accountability or self awareness.
Having a world class chef come in and guide you is such an incredible opportunity for your average local restaurant owner and so many of these people are just unbelievably ungrateful.
The moment it was revealed that the mom took out her retirement savings, I was completely confident that the owner was going to be narcissistic, stubborn, and/or a terrible leader. No one, nor the elder, should never use the retirement savings for something other than exactly what it's for.
The thing that bugged me about the mouse is if you show me a place that hides holes in the wall behind records, I'm going to assume they have a pest problem regardless. I don't need to see a mouse at that point, so it would have been wholly unnecessary to plant one.
As someone who lived in the same city as this restaurant it’s really sad to see. BlackBerrys was the first black owned restaurant opened in Plainfield and even now we barely have any left. Such a shame that Shelly ruined it, a piece of our towns history is gone forever now.
@@hisokamorow8388 yes and no. There were other families who offered to buy the restaurant and take over. She was just too egotistical to accept defeat. She did get what was coming to her, I just wish the restaurant itself is still there
We REALLY need one of these on Amy's Baking Company. The episode so batshit insane it broke the show. Of course, there have been like 90,000 videos on it, but come on. It's legendary, and I need to see MermaidGrove's drawings fighting with Sam and Amy.
Technically Gordon didn’t fix the place since Amy refused to take any advice. Everything I’ve heard is the place tried to do it’s own reopening and still was the same shit shop it was on the show.
@@alyssarichardson2544Is Amy actually mentally unstable? I've seen the way she carries herself and even just the way she looks around her... she strikes me as somebody with serious issues, and obviously I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone with a mental illness, but seeing that even Sammy seems scared of her and those burning eyes, I wouldn't be too surprised. If so, I'm more concerned with her getting proper help.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the mom and Shelly had a falling out after this. I like to think family can stick through anything but Shelly’s attitude and her consequences push their relationship past the borderline.
I love these videos so much. I clicked the moment I got the notification! These deep drives are something I’ve been trying to find in the community and I love the way you present them!
I really don't understand why Shelly acted like she did, at no point did she even try to co-operate with Gordon, a guy who is literally trying to save her restaurant. It's like she wanted the place to fail. This combined with her complete disregard for everyone else involved in the business (including her own mother), easily makes her one of the most thoroughly unlikable owners featured on the show.
I believe it would’ve been cool if Blackberry’s became a cake restaurant. Mainly because the cake was the only good thing that Gordon ate, and also because I personally don’t see any cake restaurants, and believe it would have been an interesting thing
There's this place near my town called Rick's Dessert Diner. Their main deal is cakes, pies, cheesecakes, sundaes, all that kind of stuff. I've been meaning to go back sometime.
Chitterlings are a huge southern cuisine. Just gotta clean them thoroughly. I personally can’t the dish but one of my childhood friend’s mom use to cook them every weekend and you could smell down throughout the neighborhood lol.
Thank you for the video. I've been hoping for an update on this place. I had hoped he could have just given the mom the set up for a bakery. She was the only one cooking with love. Also the animated part was great 😂
Oh! I know Ms. Marie personally. We went to the same church before the Rona hit. She would cook for the church's morning service and it would be the highlight of my Sunday to eat one of her cakes
Kitchen Nightmares was a very good show though formulaic. Most of the restaurants failed even with the help but almost all of them were in massive debt and/or just went back to their old ways
And even some of the ones that succeeded turned around and sold their business to fund other careers. It's a tough industry even if you're succeeding, and not everyone wants to stick around.
So funny enough Shelly was actually my high school lunch lady. Like no joke after some of my friends saw the episode we connected the dots and realized that the lady giving us terrible cafeteria food was actually famous for that.
I am convinced that Gordon asks if something is microwaved as an olive branch to just admit it’s bad food because he clearly knows when something has been microwaved he doesn’t need to ask
Those reviews that were posted years after the restaurant closed are genuinely from the worst kind of people. Like they're saying "I saw you on a TV show and you didn't look good so I'm gonna try and damage your business even more". Review sites should try and verify genuine reviews so the fake ones don't get through.
Another great episode I NEED proper closure on is "Sushi Ko." That episode hits HARD, because the owner/chef is just SO DEPRESSED, and its a rare case of an owner being verbally abused by his staff on KN instead of the other way around.
Aramark is a food service temp agency. I worked for them while getting my culinary arts degree. They usually hired us to work in college campus cafeterias or sports stadiums. The writers of her update definitely added some fluff.
If I have to give a suggestion for your next episode to cover, you should definitely look into Chappy's. It's one of the only few episodes where the ending had the narrator implicitly say that Chappy was just hosting a front all along, and that he immediately returned back to his old ways as soon as Ramsey was out of the door. Would be really interesting to see where he, Starr, and the rest of the staff are now.
Some people are so spoiled, it's insane. If my parents chipped into my business, I'd be busting my ass day in & out. Remember boys & girls, if someone ever takes a chance on you, you repay it back tenfold.
Best kitchen nightmare episode is Amy's baking company. Favorite gems from the episodes are " you should know what you like to eat then sir" , " my food is not store brought, it is delicious did you even try it " , Banishing customers for complaining where is their food, and husband think he is a gangsta.
I feel bad for Mary and the staff they are really good people and deserve the best. But not Shelly she is a spoiled brat and is ungrateful for what was given to her. When my parents give me something I make sure their generosity is not taken for granted and work hard for it.
Imagine accusing the known helper you called for of sabatoging the resturant... The balls that guy had of blaming Ramsey for the rat that THEY never noticed in broad daylight when he had no excuse to explain it, if its dead, then its been there for a while, before Ramsey even turned up Its almost as if HE was the one that planted it, not Ramsey
I binged all of your earlier entries in the What happened to _____ from Kitchen Nightmares (and hotel Hell) series in a day after getting one recommended, nice to see another one
@1:30. I love that you made this reference hahah, there is actually an episode of kitchen nIghtmares where this happens. The owner would basically stop service to belly dance during a dinner rush, force the servers to do it with her, and there is a great scene where gordon laboriously explains to her that soup of the day means different soup daily, not today we have a soup. When I can look up the episode I’ll edit this but all I can remember now is that her name was Rishi and it was a restaurant in Texas, but I’m sure searching “bellydance kitchen nightmares” will get you there hahah
Are there any similar places in the area? I personally never heard of the place until seeing the episode about it, even though I only lived a few blocks away. It wasn't until I saw this video right now that I found out where it was. I know some people who used to regularly go to another soul food place in Plainfield, but they closed down also, before I could ever go there.
Have been watching your videos, some more than once. Always like your tone and pace. Glad to see you add the drawing as they’re funny. Know that you don’t update frequently probably because of other stuff you’re busy on, but will keep on supporting and looking forward to the next one. Happy 2023.
That Shelly was high on her own narcist stench, serving barf and burnt chicken as quality food speaks of itself. She's is a massive self-centered failure that blames everything but herself. Poor grandma if she had her opportunity long ago this restaurant would have been a gold mine. Smh
“Soul food is made with love and soul, not in a wok. We’re not a Chinese Soul Food restaurant, we don’t need a wok, ok?” - Mateen Also, Mother Mary’s desserts are just so lovely. ❤❤
@@BJGvideos I think the general idea is that soul food usually involves long dedicated cooking times whereas cooking in a wok is about extremely high heat and fast cooking. Think high quality macaroni and cheese vs. stir-fry.
If i remember correctly (i looked it up intensely when i saw this episode lol), the neighborhood where the restaurant wwas located was known to have mice, which is why they got an exterminator to come once a month. the fact that the mouse was found by the door is a good indicator that it probably came from outside and died due to the preventative measures. Also why they could only remember one other instance of seeing a mouse (at least according to the edit of the episode) I do also want to add, that if you pay attention to a lot of the cut-aways, they are wearing stuff from earlier in the week and they add it so it looks like they're saying it at different times (rewatching has taught me that one lol) but this was a good video! (and hope this didn't seem condescending! just wanted to add a bit more info lol)
Honestly Shelly going on to work at Aramark makes so much sense. They feed college students the same food as prisoners! Also prisoners have protested rather than eat their garbage. Back when I had a meal plan in undergrad, Aramark was infamous for serving undercooked, overcooked, spoiled and stale food on a regular basis, and they never properly filled out or changed over the nutritional information which for me as a type one diabetic trying to get an accurate idea of carbs in the food was infuriating. Shelly must have fit right in.
Now that you mention it, I'm kind of surprised I never hear about diabetes as one of the larger issues for the fight for nutritional food in schools, prisons, colleges and workplaces. It's definitely something that should be spoken about more.
The vast majority of restaurants that are on Kitchen Nightmares ended up closing. The main reason is that by the time Gordon comes to help they are so far in debt that the improvements aren't enough to pay off the bills. If you owe 500k and start making $2500 profit a week more that's only 10k a month. It'll take 50 months to pay off that 500k, with no interest and making the same 10k a month more. Including increases is costs etc. So the business often can't dig themselves out no matter how much it improved.
I hope you've done a video on that hotel or restaraunt who's owner kept stealing all the tips and didnt pay his workers and they all quit on him mid-episode
Apart from Amy's bakery Shelly's restaurant was one of the restaurants that I wanted it to shutdown because of Shelly she was spoiled and didn't care about the restaurant one single bit if anything I feel bad for the mom she was honest and put so much love in her cakes
Old, bitter people don't change. If they go their whole lives acting entitled & rude, they don't EVER change. They're like that their whole lives. So she definitely didn't deserve Ramsey. Couldn't even thank him for HIS hard work. Notice after her kitchen appliances & decor were updated, she wanted Ramsey gone?
Oh god the one with the chitlins, dead mouse conspiracy accusation, another "crazy" owner...glad to start 2023 strong with another good MermaidGrove video.
One of my favorite parts from this episode is when Gordon and James are arguing about the mouse by the front door and James keeps asking, "Where?" and Gordon asks, "Where's the front door in your mind!?" 😆
I was born in Plainfield, NJ. The hospital I was born at was shut down because so many people got blood borne illnesses from transfusions, including my mom who got Hep C.
They never completely closed down, although most of the buildings were torn down. They now operate as JFK Medical Center-Muhlenberg Campus. I don't know about any ilnesses from transfusions or anything happening there, but I've always known they weren't a good hospital. I was born there too. When I was 4 years old my brothers friend dropped a broomstick out of a tree and it split my head open. I rode in an ambulance with my mom to go there. I couldn't tell you the exact conditon of the ambulance, but I know the electrical system was definitely screwed up. They were trying to keep me calm since I was bleeding everywhere from a head wound, so they told me to flip the 2 switches on the wall that looked like regular house light switches, to turn on the lights and sirens. I flipped the switches, and nothing happened. They seemed very surprised, and tried flipping them back and forth several times. I remember them saying "they must have cut us off" and giving up on the switches. Then when we got a few blocks from the hospital they stopped and said that my mother and I would have to walk the rest of the way because they had to go pick somebody else up. SERIOUSLY? Making a mom walk with her 4 year old son whose bleeding from the head the last few blocks?!? I really don't remember having to walk. Maybe she carried me. I know she complained about it for many years afterwards though.
Can I say that I LOVE your artwork 😂 people often think you have to make super cute/realistic art to make a video funny. But the stick figures actually crack me up way more than any cartoon you could have done.❤ I actually love the idea and say keep doing it.
Honestly… as a music nerd… the vinyl record deco is kinda sick, ngl. A lot of the rest of the aesthetic could be changed but I bet you could pull off that vibe.
OKAY I’ve watched all your videos and I need MORE PLEASE!!! Need more kitchen nightmares and hotel hell deep dives. Obsessed with your channel. You are a god, please keep going!
I love how the mouse was this huge point of contention for the episode, Ive worked at good places but my entire greater area is mostly either at or below sea level and the most urban areas are built ontop of a city we wrecked and built ontop of *not london seattle or paris* so we have rats eveywhere and mice, just an hour ago i was walking through the busiest area of the city (at 2 am) and saw mice doing their thing, every restaurant or grocery store I've worked at just simply did their best to stay ontop of the problem, regular pest control and occasionally they'd get inside because we were hot and left the back door open and they were hungry/hot/cold so they wanted in. the fact that her and her boyfriend got so defensive about it makes it sooo much more suspicious!! like at night we;d be sitting outside and just watch the rats run around right outside the restaurant and this is totally normal. rats gunna rat and theyre way too smart(most of the time) for posion traps so these folks are leaving food out- in short, and thats probably what killed it. more birds got in then anything, i feel so bad for the night staff who had to find them before the customers did-that was a chain grocery store though, i still dont understand how the pigeon got in that one episode...
Hanging up without saying goodbye is not uncommon, especially in the South. I don't know why, but my brother used to do this and it would drive me crazy!
I am from the south...whenever my mother or aunties start bringing out the chitlins,I leave the house and don't come back until they are done lol. I just can't stomach the smell of them....
Shelly, apart from Amy, is probably the best example of this weird phenomenon with the restaurant owners on this show. I get you'd wanna make food that you would eat and enjoy, but at the same time I don't understand how they don't get that people just like them is a very, VERY small minority of customers they'll get. Amy is a psycho, but Shelly I feel like was ready to actually stab Gordon, she visibly looked like she was hiding a meltdown and trying to laugh it off. Hope her mother is doing well, though. Poor woman invested her entire retirement into it and her dessert was the only saving grace because of how awful her daughter was at managing the place and its quality.
Imo, women like Shelley & Amy are solely in the business for the “prestige” of calling themselves an owner & the dream of riches and being a “spoiled princess” in their own warped minds. They are the ultimate narcissist’s. Selfish, self-centered, manipulative, and perpetually whiny & mean; always blaming their behaviors on their self-anointed“victimhood.” I’m surprised megan (princess of Canada😂) mharkel isn’t a failing restaurant owner. She’d fit right in with Shelley, Amy, and many others!
Do Amy's Baking Company next. I know a lot happened and it's all been televised but it's such a fun ride. Love your content! This is one of my favorite channels. I dont click the bell often but I love your channel. I think I've gone back and commented on every single one. But Amy's Baking Company. Maybe also highlight the fact that it wasn't the first time Gordon walked out OR the first time he's been locked out of a restaurant.
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Shelley's mom was arguably the only good thing about the restaurant and it's a shame her own daughter didn't give a shit about the business.
If I remember correctly, the only food he liked was the dessert made by Shelleys mom, and it made shelley so jealous 😂
Mateen definitely cared, too
The staff was great, this is one of the rare times in Kitchen Nightmares where the kitchen staff was actually good, the kitchen wasn’t a mess, it just didn’t have a system and it was Shelly’s way.
@@Tortilla.Reform It was made by her mom
And that one staff member that called out everyone to stop bullsting Gordon.
This episode was a roller-coaster of highs and lows, the Red Velvet cake part was extremely sweet and wholesome, highly quotable dialogue from Gordon and of course insinuating Gordon Ramsey planted a dead rodent. It's really got it all!
Agreed
I hope the sweet lady who baked the cake is still around
Gordon Ramsay should’ve just left after he accused him of doing something so heinous and he should’ve just left that restaurant sink
It makes a lot of sense why they would plant it. Kitchen Nightmares in America is very focused on drama
Sweet? Like, cake? BADUM TSSSS
The missing roof tiles are for set lighting and cameras. The kitchen nightmares crew did that and they fix it before they leave, you can see them in a lot of episodes
ohh i had no idea abt this! neat!
Thanks for that context, that makes sense since the production schedule consists of an advance team setting cameras up everywhere so they can get footage of how the restaurant operates before Gordon arrives. I’ve noticed the omni-directional cams in roof tiles of other restaurants on the show
Interesting. Makes sense, probably get better angles putting them up higher
@@MumwaW that and people are more likely to forget about them. Outa sight, outa mind type beat
I mean why should I believe this just because you said it tho.
I feel like if anyone deserved their restaurant to keep falling it's Shelly, but on the other hand I feel so sorry for her mum. She definitely didn't deserve to be screwed over with her money like that. Considering that cake too, she probably could've had a successful bakery or dessert shop.
Well Shelly is now working as a school chief "lead" or somewhere around that order, might be in a hospital or something. Where the chief she punched down all those years has a career of a successful chief. Shows just how much care Shelly really has and the lack of anything ambitious outside of her comfort of control.
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What pissed me off the most about this episode was how upset she got over the fact that Gordon liked the cake.
@@RaynmanPlays She really couldnt cope with reality and made her mom suffer the consequences
This is the moms fault. The daughter didn’t forever her to spend the money. The daughter could of got a loan from a bank…. Probably didn’t have good credit. A lesson for parents. Be honest with ur kids.
One of the worst parts of the episode was seeing how disappointed her mom was. Like damn, how’d someone so shitty come from someone so sweet??
IKR??
AND HER MOM INVESTED HER RETIREMENT MONEY.
You can tell she worked her *ss off to make sure her daughter had more than she did growing up... Sadly, you're usually away and end up with a ungrateful, spoiled child. Just the fact she was dating that young guy and had the nerve to have him working there is a problem. Had he been half investor and they did it together, worked on accounting, ordering (talking directly to chefs), outside of the restaurant. Now to find out her mom invested her retirement, i'm heartbroken. Had Sheely used her own money maybe it would have been different, or worse, who knows.@@KyokujiFGC
Who knows how she was in her youth, you know, children do learn their basic instincts from their parents like being stubborn and all, but being absolutely build was totally her, not giving a crap how to run a business but just satisfying her ego, just get a chef if you are bad at cooking and server the tables or bus them.
She probably spoiled Shelly as a child. There’s such a thing as too sweet
Sweet + sour = shitty
Chitterlings are absolutely a thing, my neighbor used to make them all the time and my grocery store sold a ton of them. They have to be cleaned VERY THOROUGHLY or else they stink to high heaven when they're cooked.
Id expect so of literal shit pipes
also helps if you give them a soak in buttermilk (this also applies to other offal -- works great with liver)
It’s been forever since I’ve eaten that, but yeah, I do remember the smell!😅
Looks disgusting.
@@triggeredcat120 it's country food aka soul food. The working class and slaves ate these foods because they found ways to make things noone else wanted delicious. Japanese. food is the same. Btw southern/soul food is delicious
And no thry absolutely arent supposed to look like that
One of the chefs said the collard greens tasted like "peppered soil".
Collard greens usually taste like dirt/soil if they're not cleaned properly. You also have to clean chitlins super well before cooking them cus they're, well, intestines and they stink when you cook them.
So if they didn't bother to clean their collard greens, I bet they didnt clean their chitlins either. Sorry, shitlins 💩
Heh...shitlins
I don’t even eat chitlins and when Gordon said they stank I was like…damn they didn’t clean them smh lol
This little revelation is horrifying.
Maybe this is my migraine talking but the thought of eating intestines makes me sick. I think I'll pass. Thanks. That just doesn't sound good to me. Then again maybe I'm wrong, maybe they are good but no thanks.
@@cmpvariety1764 they can be good if cleaned properly but yeah i get you, i also get funny feelings in throat whenever i eat shrimps because i had one too many encounters with people who dont clean the literal shit off the shrimps.
The people running this restaurant were definitely among the most annoying to have been on the show, along with the jerk chicken doctor and the maine lobster scammer
Lol the one so in denial she needs therapy?
@@themug406 No, it's The Jamaican doctor. The one in denial she needs therapy is Abby from Down City.
Who’s the guy? Was it tarry?
Maine lobster scammer was The Black Pearl.
@@Lobsterwithinternet I rewatched that one recently. That guy was insufferable
I have never seen anyone act as spoiled as Shelly.
that one woman from one episode with short hair and glasses who gordon calls a "stuck-up precious little..."
Down City, Abby
Michon?
@swordkirby537 "You stuck-up precious little bitch."
Watch Calumet Inn which is from Hotel Hell. There are 2 spoiled sisters who took care the hotels. The oldest was 32 years old crybaby and even gone for 3 months while the youngest was 27 years old lazy and irresponsible.
These shows make me terrified that I'm not actually a decent cook and everyone lies to me when I cook for them
Trust me. If they were lying, you'd know
If you seeing regular customers coming back your good.
Restaurant cooking is very different from home cooking
A point I have heard Gordon make in one episode was "As a restaurant, you need to be making food that's BETTER than what people can make at home". So even if the food that some of these restaurants serve would pass as decent if a relative made it for you at home, the point of going to a restaurant is for the better than home cooked food. It's gotta be worth the customer's time and money.
@@TheBluePony3 💯 . I remember that quote! He's also pointed out is that restaurant food should be priced about 4 times what it cost to make so that you can make profit and cover overhead and everything. I always keep that in mind when going to a restaurant. Not only does the food have to be better than what I can cook at home, I have to be willing to pay 4 times what it's worth.
We don't eat out much. You can get a Tomahawk steak at Costco for 55 bucks and feed a family of 4 and have a bone for the dog. It Takes some effort and it's best done on the grill. You just have to take your time and get used to timing. Throw in 5 bucks of potatoes, butter, milk and chives and you have a 60-70 dollar meal that YOU KNOW is fresh, cooked in a clean kitchen or on a clean grill, a treat for the dog and its fucking delicious. At a restaurant, they would charge you at least 50 bucks for a single plate of steak and potatoes. Smh.
I can make a giant thing of spaghetti for about 10 bucks. It lasts our small family 3 days. No way I can find even a single serving for 10 bucks. And don't get me started on lasagna. It's more expensive to make than spaghetti. Maybe 15 bucks but it makes such a giant amount that you can feed several people and have left overs. Not to mention that it costs about 2 dollars to make a giant batch of cookies (after dividing up the cost of a pound of flour and a pound of butter and all that) or that MOST people already have everything they need in their kitchen to make a cake with a simple frosting.
Got going. Lol. Tldr cook more. It's cheaper. And you eventually get really good at it and get to the point where you can just sort of make stuff up. If you go out to eat, know that you can probably do better with practice. Unless it's sushi because that shit is hard. Everything has to be absolutely perfect and single pieces are cheaper than buying sushi grade salmon.
Omg I need to stop replying while fasting. Lol
After being accused of planting that mouse, I'm surprised Ramsay didn't just say "F you" and leave.
He almost did
He was going to but was persuaded by the owner’s mum. I really pitied the mum. She cared for the restaurant more than the owner ever did.
It probably was planted, everything else was scripted for dramas sake lol doesn’t change the fact their restaurant was failing though I guess
“You should take your restaurant and stick it. I’m gone.”
Mother Mary cared so much for the business that Gordon stayed because of her and the staff as well since all of them really wanted the restaurant to succeed. I’m just so glad that Sous Chef Mateen had a good career as an executive chef. What I would die for to get a taste of Mary’s Red Velvet Cake 🍰 😋
character development
I'm glad Shelly's mom is not spoiling her but she's always telling her right in her face what to do and what to not to do. She's even calling her daughter "A spoiled woman" or something.
she’s a narcissistic woman.
Makes me wonder what the daddy did… maybe he was the spoiler/enabler. It’s possible the mum was very overindulgent towards at one time or both folks were guilty of spoiling her in the past & she was simply trying to right her prior wrongs, which is a noble thing to do. Showed tht she really loved her. Maybe the father was absent & made up for it by giving in to her demands as this is not real love. Then again, I’m only making creative speculations. it’s plausible that she was born this way or some unfortunate stuff happened to her that was out of anybody’s control. However this is NOT an excuse for her behavior!
It makes me wonder how she was raised or if she just happens to be that way… always being critiqued at home can lead one to be very defensive of the things they do once they’re grown.
@@WileyCylas Her father is still there as she and her mom called him in different times.
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE SHE TOLD HER MOM WHEN SHE WENT IN TO TALK TO THAT DISRESPECTFUL HEFFA KNOWN AS HER DAUGHTER SAID "MOM, WILL YOU GET OUT OF MY FACE?"
WHUUT? WTF DOES THAT?😳😨😳😰
HAD I SAID THAT TO MY MOMS, I WOULD BE RESIDING IN THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL. SHE TOTALLY DISSED HER MOTHER. CHILE, IF I HAD SUDDENLY BECOME CLINICALLY INSANE AND SAID THAT TO MY MOMS, SHE WOULD HAVE KNOCKED TF OUT OF ME SO TOUGH I'D BE WAKING UP IN MY NEXT LIFE (IN THE AFOREMENTIONED SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL😮). HER MOM INVESTED HER ENTIRE RETIREMENT FUND. EVERYTHING THAT SWEET WOMAN WORKED FOR. I COULDN'T IMAGINE THE SOUL CRUSHING HEARTBREAK IN THAT SWEET WOMAN'S HEART.
I HAVE A FEELING SHELLY WAS A SPOILED 'DADDY'S GIRL'..I PAID ATTENTION WHEN HER MOM WAS ON THE PHONE WITH SHELLEY'S DAD - AFTER MOMS SAID WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY, SHE STRAIGHT HUNG UP IN HER HUSBAND'S FACE WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE.
VERY TELLING.
Gordon has no need to plant a mouse, the show'll be a success purely on the owner/cook's incompetence, there's no need for him to risk a thing.
THANK YOU!
I can confirm as someone who ate there before that Blackberries did indeed have a mouse problem. I remember sitting in one of the booths there and between the booths and the wall was a tiny alcove in which I noticed a dead mouse. We left afterwards lol.
@@bluehawkfighter1132 dunno man, you could have planted that there 🤔
@@jelleluyten5017 naw he didn't do it, I did
@@Dilapidated_Dilo How many mice can you fit in one crappy restaurant?
They planted the mouse, but forgot to water it, put it in good soil and leave it in sunlight, so it never grew into a rat.😢
I'm more of the mind that Remy was killed by their cooking.
@@Lobsterwithinternetthis is why there is no ratatouille 2 😢
I feel so bad for the mother who blew her retirement on her ignorant daughter.
Same
Rotten daughter garbage !
“ignorant” says it all. Especially with denial with an undertone of violence. People like this use shame and violence to try and control others. This is why when these types approach you need to be prepared for all outcomes.
I really like these deep dives into what happened to the restaurants.
Shelly is a prime example of a spoiled brat. She can do no wrong, she's the "queen" of everything in her life except owning her mistakes or even admitting that she has ever made one.
Those kind of people (like Shelly) are perpetual victims. They can do no wrong, everything bad that happens to them is out of their control and they will never apologize for anything.
She honestly seems kind of like a narcissist. She has a pre-program that everyone and everything has to follow, where she's on top, and when this is challenged she gets aggressive and often refuses to take responsibility, especially woth the mouse bit. She did seem to welcome some of the changes made, but given they shut down with some pretty harsh reviews prior to shutting down, her saying she would consider the changes mightve just been her keeping up appearances to look better.
Sounds like my ex, LOL
It's textbook narcissism. Arrogant, manipulative, and passive aggressive, while always playing the victim and having no accountability or self awareness.
Having a world class chef come in and guide you is such an incredible opportunity for your average local restaurant owner and so many of these people are just unbelievably ungrateful.
The moment it was revealed that the mom took out her retirement savings, I was completely confident that the owner was going to be narcissistic, stubborn, and/or a terrible leader. No one, nor the elder, should never use the retirement savings for something other than exactly what it's for.
The waitress was the best part of the episode,most of the employees are always so nice in kitchen nightmares 😊
That moment with her praying with Gordon was some of the funniest things on the whole episode
There’s definitive list of Kitchen Nightmares Waitresses I’d simp for
Bad management will ruin any business.
@@jaycrisp536 W h a t
Ah I remember this episode. Shelly’s mom and Mateen are the absolute gems of this episode. Sad to say, this restaurant didnt last long.
The thing that bugged me about the mouse is if you show me a place that hides holes in the wall behind records, I'm going to assume they have a pest problem regardless. I don't need to see a mouse at that point, so it would have been wholly unnecessary to plant one.
As someone who lived in the same city as this restaurant it’s really sad to see. BlackBerrys was the first black owned restaurant opened in Plainfield and even now we barely have any left. Such a shame that Shelly ruined it, a piece of our towns history is gone forever now.
For what her and her restaurant were worth, I guess it’s a good thing lol
Lol
@@hisokamorow8388 yes and no. There were other families who offered to buy the restaurant and take over. She was just too egotistical to accept defeat. She did get what was coming to her, I just wish the restaurant itself is still there
@@Richdotcom59 ?
Typical Black woman
We REALLY need one of these on Amy's Baking Company. The episode so batshit insane it broke the show.
Of course, there have been like 90,000 videos on it, but come on. It's legendary, and I need to see MermaidGrove's drawings fighting with Sam and Amy.
Meow lol
Technically Gordon didn’t fix the place since Amy refused to take any advice. Everything I’ve heard is the place tried to do it’s own reopening and still was the same shit shop it was on the show.
Amy is STILL fighting with people on the internet about it, you can actually find her in many a comment thread on videos related to her...
@@alyssarichardson2544Is Amy actually mentally unstable? I've seen the way she carries herself and even just the way she looks around her... she strikes me as somebody with serious issues, and obviously I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone with a mental illness, but seeing that even Sammy seems scared of her and those burning eyes, I wouldn't be too surprised. If so, I'm more concerned with her getting proper help.
@@octaviusroosevelt7355 she is far gone, nothing can save her
I wouldn’t be surprised if the mom and Shelly had a falling out after this. I like to think family can stick through anything but Shelly’s attitude and her consequences push their relationship past the borderline.
I much prefer these longer episodes rather than the shorter experiment, your animated segments are fun too~
I love these videos so much. I clicked the moment I got the notification! These deep drives are something I’ve been trying to find in the community and I love the way you present them!
I really don't understand why Shelly acted like she did, at no point did she even try to co-operate with Gordon, a guy who is literally trying to save her restaurant. It's like she wanted the place to fail. This combined with her complete disregard for everyone else involved in the business (including her own mother), easily makes her one of the most thoroughly unlikable owners featured on the show.
R.I.P mama Mary. She was so cute when Gordon loved her velvet cake.
She died?
@@Thomasmemoryscentral No rip means she’s alive
@@Kazasia-_- NOT FUNNY.
I believe it would’ve been cool if Blackberry’s became a cake restaurant. Mainly because the cake was the only good thing that Gordon ate, and also because I personally don’t see any cake restaurants, and believe it would have been an interesting thing
There's this place near my town called Rick's Dessert Diner. Their main deal is cakes, pies, cheesecakes, sundaes, all that kind of stuff. I've been meaning to go back sometime.
You mean a bakery? I've never heard of a cake restaurant
@@bajorekjon Yes, I don't know what I was saying lmao
@@JeriSmiler Lol I was like is that some new trendy thing I don't know about? I guess Amy's baking company is technically a cake restaurant
I was thinking the same thing, make mommas cakes/sweets the main thing.
Chitterlings are a huge southern cuisine. Just gotta clean them thoroughly. I personally can’t the dish but one of my childhood friend’s mom use to cook them every weekend and you could smell down throughout the neighborhood lol.
Tyrone and Shelly’s mom really are the MVPs of the restaurant. Tyrone keeps it real and Shelly’s mom makes some delicious fucking food.
Thank you for the video. I've been hoping for an update on this place. I had hoped he could have just given the mom the set up for a bakery. She was the only one cooking with love. Also the animated part was great 😂
Shelly is one of the most ungrateful owners on the show. She didn't deserve the remodel and stove.
Mateen and the rest of the staff also did exceptionally well.
Crazy part is there’s a bakery there now.
@@CleverCape I hope Mother Mary manages that bakery.
@@giantswingallday7001 I COULDN'T STAND SHELLEY'S SO CALLED FIANCE JAMES.
Oh! I know Ms. Marie personally. We went to the same church before the Rona hit. She would cook for the church's morning service and it would be the highlight of my Sunday to eat one of her cakes
Hi, just read your comment. Kind and polite request-can you please call it Covid? I don’t wanna be an illness! Thanks, Rona
@@ronatopaz2793 i dont think you should be taking it too personally
Kitchen Nightmares was a very good show though formulaic. Most of the restaurants failed even with the help but almost all of them were in massive debt and/or just went back to their old ways
And even some of the ones that succeeded turned around and sold their business to fund other careers. It's a tough industry even if you're succeeding, and not everyone wants to stick around.
@@Duothimir it is an absurdly tough industry with incredibly long hours. When your career requires 12+ hours a day easily that's a huge commitment
I started using microwaves few years ago, now I understand how Gordon able to tell if the food is heated up with it
IT'S NOT HARD TO TELL IF IT'S BEEN REHEATED BY A MICROWAVE.
Microwave or not food is food why u give and f and how can u tell I can’t even tell myself
@@AmandaYee-yn9dk I dont expect a person who destroyed their taste bud with fast foods and Starbucks everyday to know the difference
@@KenBladehart some of us just eat 2 live 2 survive we don’t live 2 eat food doesn’t have 2 look and taste good it just has 2 be edible
@@AmandaYee-yn9dk What make you think Im a billionaire? Im just a regular person that cook his own food. I can taste thing that is wrong
So funny enough Shelly was actually my high school lunch lady. Like no joke after some of my friends saw the episode we connected the dots and realized that the lady giving us terrible cafeteria food was actually famous for that.
Wait how long ago was that?
💀
I am convinced that Gordon asks if something is microwaved as an olive branch to just admit it’s bad food because he clearly knows when something has been microwaved he doesn’t need to ask
i feel bad for mary, shelly doesn't give a damn about her mother and puts her ego at the front
Those reviews that were posted years after the restaurant closed are genuinely from the worst kind of people. Like they're saying "I saw you on a TV show and you didn't look good so I'm gonna try and damage your business even more".
Review sites should try and verify genuine reviews so the fake ones don't get through.
he shouldve seen throuh that
@@teleportingpotatoe he typically does.
Honestly, good for Mateen. Glad he's had some success.
Another great episode I NEED proper closure on is "Sushi Ko." That episode hits HARD, because the owner/chef is just SO DEPRESSED, and its a rare case of an owner being verbally abused by his staff on KN instead of the other way around.
Aramark is a food service temp agency. I worked for them while getting my culinary arts degree. They usually hired us to work in college campus cafeterias or sports stadiums. The writers of her update definitely added some fluff.
If I have to give a suggestion for your next episode to cover, you should definitely look into Chappy's. It's one of the only few episodes where the ending had the narrator implicitly say that Chappy was just hosting a front all along, and that he immediately returned back to his old ways as soon as Ramsey was out of the door. Would be really interesting to see where he, Starr, and the rest of the staff are now.
The fact shelly and the waitress laughed abt Gordon throwing up in the bathroom says alot..
Vomit is hilarious
@@IamtheSpy2005 It’s really not. Especially if you think about how the person who is doing the vomiting is feeling.
@T S not when it's your business causing the vomiting lawsuits coming there way
@@andrewmpachetti I found it hilarious
@@TFoxhound Vomiting isn't illegal.
Some people are so spoiled, it's insane. If my parents chipped into my business, I'd be busting my ass day in & out. Remember boys & girls, if someone ever takes a chance on you, you repay it back tenfold.
man i really missed your vids,honestly appreciate the work that you put into these vids
Dude, chitlins literally taste and smell like feces. Grossest thing I’ve ever eaten. Solid video 🤙🏻
Yoooo donut
as much as i love soul food, you’re 100% right. chitlins are horrible
@@goatedbasketball THEY ARE DISGUSTING.
Hahaha donut operator
My mans knows what's up. My family makes em every Christmas and I swear once grandma goes the chitlins go with her
Best kitchen nightmare episode is Amy's baking company. Favorite gems from the episodes are " you should know what you like to eat then sir" , " my food is not store brought, it is delicious did you even try it "
, Banishing customers for complaining where is their food, and husband think he is a gangsta.
Oh hell yeah, love your content! Would love to see more Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell, plus Bar Rescue if you're down to cover it
Yes I'd love to hear what some of those bars are doing after Jon rescued them. For a bit he did a back to the bar series.
I feel bad for Mary and the staff they are really good people and deserve the best. But not Shelly she is a spoiled brat and is ungrateful for what was given to her. When my parents give me something I make sure their generosity is not taken for granted and work hard for it.
Imagine accusing the known helper you called for of sabatoging the resturant...
The balls that guy had of blaming Ramsey for the rat that THEY never noticed in broad daylight when he had no excuse to explain it, if its dead, then its been there for a while, before Ramsey even turned up
Its almost as if HE was the one that planted it, not Ramsey
I binged all of your earlier entries in the What happened to _____ from Kitchen Nightmares (and hotel Hell) series in a day after getting one recommended, nice to see another one
@1:30. I love that you made this reference hahah, there is actually an episode of kitchen nIghtmares where this happens. The owner would basically stop service to belly dance during a dinner rush, force the servers to do it with her, and there is a great scene where gordon laboriously explains to her that soup of the day means different soup daily, not today we have a soup. When I can look up the episode I’ll edit this but all I can remember now is that her name was Rishi and it was a restaurant in Texas, but I’m sure searching “bellydance kitchen nightmares” will get you there hahah
Rishi was like the embodiment of somebody who burnt their brains out on drugs in the 70’s
@@mrcritical6751 I think she’s always been that way hahah some people are ditzy from birth
I REMEMBER THAT MESS.
i loved this place! so sad it closed down. the red velvet cake really was all that
Are there any similar places in the area? I personally never heard of the place until seeing the episode about it, even though I only lived a few blocks away. It wasn't until I saw this video right now that I found out where it was. I know some people who used to regularly go to another soul food place in Plainfield, but they closed down also, before I could ever go there.
@@eric_d there’s a place on rt 22 called amazing taste that i love!
@@evieweiss7128 I'll have to check them out some time. They must be pretty new. I know they weren't there the last time I was at Zippo's.
When the owners are cunts its inevitable
Have been watching your videos, some more than once. Always like your tone and pace.
Glad to see you add the drawing as they’re funny.
Know that you don’t update frequently probably because of other stuff you’re busy on, but will keep on supporting and looking forward to the next one.
Happy 2023.
I genuinely feel sorry for the woman who lost her retirement fund over this.
That Shelly was high on her own narcist stench, serving barf and burnt chicken as quality food speaks of itself. She's is a massive self-centered failure that blames everything but herself. Poor grandma if she had her opportunity long ago this restaurant would have been a gold mine. Smh
I noticed how the mother just hung up without saying goodbye or I love you too 😂😂
As someone that collects vinyls this breaks my heart
Same tbh😭😭
“Soul food is made with love and soul, not in a wok. We’re not a Chinese Soul Food restaurant, we don’t need a wok, ok?” - Mateen
Also, Mother Mary’s desserts are just so lovely. ❤❤
I'm questioning how cooking it in a wok would somehow mean it wasn't made with love and soul.
@@BJGvideos I’m not an expert at cooking but I know soul food isn’t cooked in a Chinese wok. That’s kinda unusual imo.
@@BJGvideos I think the general idea is that soul food usually involves long dedicated cooking times whereas cooking in a wok is about extremely high heat and fast cooking. Think high quality macaroni and cheese vs. stir-fry.
@@JamesonYong Oh, so something being cooked very slowly?
@@BJGvideos yes, exactly. I think one of the chefs even mentions it in the episode.
If i remember correctly (i looked it up intensely when i saw this episode lol), the neighborhood where the restaurant wwas located was known to have mice, which is why they got an exterminator to come once a month. the fact that the mouse was found by the door is a good indicator that it probably came from outside and died due to the preventative measures. Also why they could only remember one other instance of seeing a mouse (at least according to the edit of the episode)
I do also want to add, that if you pay attention to a lot of the cut-aways, they are wearing stuff from earlier in the week and they add it so it looks like they're saying it at different times (rewatching has taught me that one lol) but this was a good video! (and hope this didn't seem condescending! just wanted to add a bit more info lol)
Honestly Shelly going on to work at Aramark makes so much sense. They feed college students the same food as prisoners! Also prisoners have protested rather than eat their garbage. Back when I had a meal plan in undergrad, Aramark was infamous for serving undercooked, overcooked, spoiled and stale food on a regular basis, and they never properly filled out or changed over the nutritional information which for me as a type one diabetic trying to get an accurate idea of carbs in the food was infuriating. Shelly must have fit right in.
Now that you mention it, I'm kind of surprised I never hear about diabetes as one of the larger issues for the fight for nutritional food in schools, prisons, colleges and workplaces. It's definitely something that should be spoken about more.
The vast majority of restaurants that are on Kitchen Nightmares ended up closing. The main reason is that by the time Gordon comes to help they are so far in debt that the improvements aren't enough to pay off the bills. If you owe 500k and start making $2500 profit a week more that's only 10k a month. It'll take 50 months to pay off that 500k, with no interest and making the same 10k a month more. Including increases is costs etc. So the business often can't dig themselves out no matter how much it improved.
2:03 "I'm just giving the people what they came here for, officer!"
I hope you've done a video on that hotel or restaraunt who's owner kept stealing all the tips and didnt pay his workers and they all quit on him mid-episode
Love what you do, you are appreciated ❤️
Just to clarify those missing ceiling tiles are from the production team adding lights.
As someone who's whole family has worked in restaurants owners and chefs are typically the most arrogant and stubborn people you will ever meet
Went here with my family as a kid, even then I knew this place wasn’t good
Apart from Amy's bakery Shelly's restaurant was one of the restaurants that I wanted it to shutdown because of Shelly she was spoiled and didn't care about the restaurant one single bit if anything I feel bad for the mom she was honest and put so much love in her cakes
Blackberrys was my favorite episode of the show, so I was hoping you would cover it
i’m so glad someone else noticed the phone thing, it always get me. i’ve rewatched this episode so many times just for the moment 🤣 5:46
Old, bitter people don't change.
If they go their whole lives acting entitled & rude, they don't EVER change. They're like that their whole lives. So she definitely didn't deserve Ramsey. Couldn't even thank him for HIS hard work.
Notice after her kitchen appliances & decor were updated, she wanted Ramsey gone?
Oh god the one with the chitlins, dead mouse conspiracy accusation, another "crazy" owner...glad to start 2023 strong with another good MermaidGrove video.
Thank u for all the work and research you put into making these videos, they're really fun and interesting to watch.
happy new year! not even partway through the episode, and i'm already loving the new animations!
If you are also the animator for those amazing stick figure cartoons lately in your videos then double hats off to you!
Tyrone just slowly shakes his head is my new phrase
One of my favorite parts from this episode is when Gordon and James are arguing about the mouse by the front door and James keeps asking, "Where?" and Gordon asks, "Where's the front door in your mind!?" 😆
I was born in Plainfield, NJ. The hospital I was born at was shut down because so many people got blood borne illnesses from transfusions, including my mom who got Hep C.
They never completely closed down, although most of the buildings were torn down. They now operate as JFK Medical Center-Muhlenberg Campus. I don't know about any ilnesses from transfusions or anything happening there, but I've always known they weren't a good hospital. I was born there too. When I was 4 years old my brothers friend dropped a broomstick out of a tree and it split my head open. I rode in an ambulance with my mom to go there. I couldn't tell you the exact conditon of the ambulance, but I know the electrical system was definitely screwed up. They were trying to keep me calm since I was bleeding everywhere from a head wound, so they told me to flip the 2 switches on the wall that looked like regular house light switches, to turn on the lights and sirens. I flipped the switches, and nothing happened. They seemed very surprised, and tried flipping them back and forth several times. I remember them saying "they must have cut us off" and giving up on the switches. Then when we got a few blocks from the hospital they stopped and said that my mother and I would have to walk the rest of the way because they had to go pick somebody else up. SERIOUSLY? Making a mom walk with her 4 year old son whose bleeding from the head the last few blocks?!? I really don't remember having to walk. Maybe she carried me. I know she complained about it for many years afterwards though.
Shelly is the type of person who looks at moldy bread and says that it's still good
Can I say that I LOVE your artwork 😂 people often think you have to make super cute/realistic art to make a video funny. But the stick figures actually crack me up way more than any cartoon you could have done.❤ I actually love the idea and say keep doing it.
*Mermaid Grove uploads*
Me: Some good fucking content
It’s always a good day whenever this man uploads a video
Another MermaidGrove upload! Always a fun watch. Love the new animations and whatnot. Hope you had a happy holiday and a good New Year's!
Honestly… as a music nerd… the vinyl record deco is kinda sick, ngl. A lot of the rest of the aesthetic could be changed but I bet you could pull off that vibe.
if only everything else didn't look cheap and kitschy
It's funny how the owner clearly asked Gordon for help but get super defensive and angry when he tells her what is wrong with the place.
OKAY I’ve watched all your videos and I need MORE PLEASE!!! Need more kitchen nightmares and hotel hell deep dives. Obsessed with your channel. You are a god, please keep going!
The first thing I thought when I saw a clip was, "Where are they? Planet Fitness?"
niko pfp :0
I love how the mouse was this huge point of contention for the episode, Ive worked at good places but my entire greater area is mostly either at or below sea level and the most urban areas are built ontop of a city we wrecked and built ontop of *not london seattle or paris* so we have rats eveywhere and mice, just an hour ago i was walking through the busiest area of the city (at 2 am) and saw mice doing their thing, every restaurant or grocery store I've worked at just simply did their best to stay ontop of the problem, regular pest control and occasionally they'd get inside because we were hot and left the back door open and they were hungry/hot/cold so they wanted in. the fact that her and her boyfriend got so defensive about it makes it sooo much more suspicious!!
like at night we;d be sitting outside and just watch the rats run around right outside the restaurant and this is totally normal. rats gunna rat and theyre way too smart(most of the time) for posion traps so these folks are leaving food out- in short, and thats probably what killed it.
more birds got in then anything, i feel so bad for the night staff who had to find them before the customers did-that was a chain grocery store though, i still dont understand how the pigeon got in that one episode...
Hanging up without saying goodbye is not uncommon, especially in the South. I don't know why, but my brother used to do this and it would drive me crazy!
I'm always excited when I see a new video from you, you do super in depth research and always make great videos!
Dude, your editing and presentation is really improving! You're doing great! 👏
I am from the south...whenever my mother or aunties start bringing out the chitlins,I leave the house and don't come back until they are done lol. I just can't stomach the smell of them....
Shelly, apart from Amy, is probably the best example of this weird phenomenon with the restaurant owners on this show. I get you'd wanna make food that you would eat and enjoy, but at the same time I don't understand how they don't get that people just like them is a very, VERY small minority of customers they'll get. Amy is a psycho, but Shelly I feel like was ready to actually stab Gordon, she visibly looked like she was hiding a meltdown and trying to laugh it off.
Hope her mother is doing well, though. Poor woman invested her entire retirement into it and her dessert was the only saving grace because of how awful her daughter was at managing the place and its quality.
Imo, women like Shelley & Amy are solely in the business for the “prestige” of calling themselves an owner & the dream of riches and being a “spoiled princess” in their own warped minds. They are the ultimate narcissist’s. Selfish, self-centered, manipulative, and perpetually whiny & mean; always blaming their behaviors on their self-anointed“victimhood.”
I’m surprised megan (princess of Canada😂) mharkel isn’t a failing restaurant owner. She’d fit right in with Shelley, Amy, and many others!
Purple and yellow do look good in some stuff, but for sure not in walls and chairs!
"Soul Pizza."
KRUSTY CRAAAYAAAYAAAB AAAAYAAAAB PIIIZZZA...
IS THE PIZZA, YEEEYAAAH, FOR YOU AND...
*MEEEEeeeeeeEEEEEeeeeeeee...*
Time to ride on a rock for miles like we were pioneers!
Do Amy's Baking Company next. I know a lot happened and it's all been televised but it's such a fun ride.
Love your content! This is one of my favorite channels. I dont click the bell often but I love your channel. I think I've gone back and commented on every single one.
But Amy's Baking Company. Maybe also highlight the fact that it wasn't the first time Gordon walked out OR the first time he's been locked out of a restaurant.
The soul pizza line killed me. 😂