My favorite one is a restaurant called Sebastian's from early in the show's run where the owner was a piece of shit who made terrible pizza from frozen dough, but the end of the episode shows him having a ”change of heart” because they wanted to have a happy ending.

If you went online, you could easily find out that the guy continued to be an insufferable small business tyrant, went back to using frozen dough and the restaurant went bust not long after the episode. It was hilarious how forced the ending was.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

That happened to a lot of the restaurants. The ones that lasted were the ones where the owners were overall not that bad and very willing to listen to Ramsey, but just needed a few adjustments, like modernizing their menu or something.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

The funniest episode of all time is the burger restaurant run by those Australians. The episode itself is hilarious but the family money comes from being descendants of one of the most infamous highwayman mobsters in Australia, and the protagonist of the episode, the owner's son, later went on to run crypto and NFT scams