Kitchen Nightmares/Awesome
- The quote on the top of the main page comes from the American episode "Sebastian's", where the owner was a complete egomaniac nutcase who pretty much tried to actively sabotage Ramsay's efforts to improve his restaurant, hurting not just the business but the staff as well. After Sebastian tries to push his "concept" one final time, Ramsay pulls him aside and calmly tells him that. After watching this guy act like a massive Jerkass the whole episode, I practically cheered when Ramsay put that schmuck in his place.
- In that same episode, Sebastian is crowing that "I just won that one!" after Ramsay walks out on an arguement to clear his head. Upon returning, Ramsay announces, "You have won jack fucking shit!"
- In the Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse episode the owner, Saki, has his wife serve the restaurant's new signature prime rib table-side. Being new to the task she cuts enormous portions, practically giving away the meat. After an entire sports team arrive and all unanimously chose to order the steak, the owner, wife and Ramsay find out that (to their horror) there was only about 2 pounds of Rib left, certainly not enough to serve an entire team. Cue Victor, the head chef (who earlier in the episode was reduced to washing dishes during dinner service because of the lack of help) mentioning that he prepared one last Rib roast just in case something went wrong.
- It's not made entirely clear to the viewer just why this is so crucial. Prime rib is different than some other steaks because it takes much longer to prepare properly. First, it (i) sits at room temperature for about two hours, then (ii) spends another two hours in the oven at varying temperatures. Without the "emergency" prime rib, then it would have been literally impossible to fill the order and no amount of chef wizardry could have done anything about it.
- In the Park's Edge episode, one of the line cooks has voiced opposition to including chicken wings on the new menu, and begins to intentionally screw up orders during the relaunch night. The head chef, who had no previous experience outside of cooking school, tells him to stop complaining and just cook the food properly. When the line cook mouths off again, the head chef fires him on the spot in the middle of dinner service.
- In the Black Berry's episode, the owner/head chef walks off the line in the middle of the relaunch after being called out for interfering with the other chefs and reverting to her old ways, which including meddling in dishes that others were cooking. The sous chef, with some encouragement from Gordon, steps up and gets every dish served properly once she leaves.
- Another in that episode is basically anytime that Mama Mary opens her mouth: First, she tells her daughter to shut up, ditch her arrognace, and accept the help that Gordon is offering, and the second is when she confronts her daughter for walking out of the dinner service, telling her that if she is going to behave like this, she should just close the restaurant down.
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