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Really, it pretty much is. There are a few differences... Robert has a much tighter time constraint, being about two days, versus the week Gordon Ramsay would typically spend at a restaurant. Robert also has a strict budget of $10,000 as opposed to Gordon spending either no money at all or as much money as the show's producers would allow him to. Robert also doesn't get ''quite'' as into helping the staff with their personal problems, apparently figuring if the restaurant starts doing well the rest will sort itself out. Otherwise, [[Strictly Formula|the formula is almost identical]]: the celebrity British chef shows up to a failing restaurant, remarking on the terrible decor when he does. He tries the food, and with near-certainty finds that absolutely everything is terrible. Upon checking the kitchen, he will almost invariably find it filthy and staffed by people who have either never cooked well, been strangled by incompetent managing, or simply lost their passion and drive. Robert tackles the problems, freaking out along the way. (As opposed to Gordon's [[Cluster F-Bomb|swearing a blue streak]], Robert generally prefers to freak out by throwing up his hands and letting out an exasperated yell.) Now has its own imitator following it directly on the same network, ''[[Restaurant Stakeout]]''.
Like the UK version and later seasons of the U.S. ''Kitchen Nightmares'', each episode ends with a short epilogue of how the restaurant was doing after the episode. These are usually rather vague, though, often merely saying that business is "on the mend" or
The series was eventually [[Retool|Retooled]] into ''Restaurant Impossible: Ambush''. Robert is no longer particularly limited in the amount of money he can spend fixing up the restaurant, and the primary owners and operators of the restaurant are not alerted that he'll be showing up. He simply turns up in response to a video sent by someone else (often a family member or concerned employee), meaning that he gets to see how the restaurant operates without any preparation for his visit.
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* [[Adored by the Network]]: if you turn on Food Network and the show currently airing isn't a competition show or ''[[Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives]],'' chances are it's this show (especially on weekends). Given the $10,000 budget Robert has to work with (presuming it represents the largest single-item production expense for the show besides the salaries for crew and Robert himself, it represents a very paltry episode budget), [[Money, Dear Boy|it's not hard to guess why this show might be so frequently aired]].
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Robert will invariably do everything possible to yank open the skulls of everyone at the restaurant
* [[Berserk Button]]: Robert has several.
** Canned or frozen food. It's cost ineffective, not good quality and frequently used as a crutch by chefs who either don't know how or are unwilling to make things themselves. He looked like he was going to have a stroke when he realized that one chef's "family recipe" barbecue sauce mostly came from a bottle.
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