Ramsay definitely has never said that he has "saved" the restaurants for sure on the program. He usually says in his closing comments that it is up to the owners or managers to make sure that they stay on the right track (and considering on the U.S. version the stubbornness of most of the subjects--or at least the way they were presented--I'm sure a lot of bad habits came back). The episode count doesn't include the "revisited" episodes, where Ramsay returns to some of the restaurants to see how things are going. Generally, they do three or four in those episodes and at least one of them in each episode seems to have gone out of business. In the regular episodes, usually after Ramsay's closing comments is a "since Chef Ramsay left" segment that has mentioned (if the program was made in time) if the restaurant closed.
And as even people who don't watch "Kitchen Nightmares" know, the only restaurant that Ramsay walked out on was the infamous Amy's Baking Company, which is still in business, probably continues to get business from people who want to see if it's as bad as it looked on TV--and (allegedly) the owner's running it as a money-laundering scheme anyway (allegedly). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:15 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A scorecard on GrubStreet >> <http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/06/gordon-ramsay-kitchen-nightmares-restaurant-closure-rates.html> >> (link) shows north of 60 % of the eateries the show visited, have since >> closed. >> >> The Easton venue, the last show's subject, survives as a new location of >> DeLorenzo's <http://www.delorenzosrestaurant.com/> (link), which moved >> about 2½ miles north. >> > > > I don't want to be in the position of defending Gordon Ramsey, but > GrubStreet's analysis seems inadequate and potentially misleading to me. A > very high percentage of restaurant's close in any one year, and my > understanding is that the establishments featured on this program are > already in crisis. To meaningfully interpret the 60% closing rate, we would > have to know what percentage of similarly situated restaurants have closed > within a similar time period - I would be surprised if that number was not > at least 60%. > > I guess if Ramsey has made the claim that he has saved all of the > restaurant's that appear on his show (I have seen a small percentage of > these programs, but I can not recall if he makes such a claim) then these > data would be enough to dispute that. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
