The more I watch Kitchen Nightmares the more convinced I am that I could own a restaurant. Okay, I probably couldn't, but I am convinced that I could do better than the people at the two restaurants we saw this evening. I don't know where the show finds these people, but it thrills me to watch the incompetence on display weekly.

Running a restaurant might look like a really easy thing to do – after all, you just hire a cook, get some local teens to wait tables and you're pretty much good to go, right? Yeah, not so much. However, in the cases of both restaurants tonight on Kitchen Nightmares it kind of looked like that's all the owners figured they had to do.

As much as I like Kitchen Nightmares, it probably wasn't a good idea for me to watch the show with a bad case of heartburn, especially when the restaurant in question was an incredibly greasy greasy spoon. And yet, just for you, I did it.

Gordon tackles another restaurant in distress on Long Island. This one, The Handlebar steakhouse has a few major problems in the works: the food, the decor, the state of the walk-in refrigerator, the chef and the owner's attitude. It's hard to pinpoint which is the biggest problem.

It's been a year since Gordon Ramsay crisscrossed the United States trying to re-invent restaurants (and their staffs' attitudes). In the season premiere, of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon goes back to see how six of these restaurants are faring since his visit. Continue reading...