Kitchen Nightmares Fake. Literally every episode of the UK version is awesome. The lawsuit alleges that "unknown to the viewing audience, some or all of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares shows are fake and the so-called 'problems uncovered and solved' by Ramsay are, for the most.
At Burger Kitchen after Kitchen nightmares, the menu and kitchen staff at Burger Kitchen in LA were changed numerous times. I am close personal friends with someone whose restaurant was on the American version of Kitchen Nightmares, he said that there aren't directly scripted scenes word-for-word, but there are plenty of staged scenes (producers tell them "we want to have a fight here or an argument there"), and did ask them to be more loud/animated/excited. With Gordon Ramsay, Arthur Smith, Kim Seeley, Michael Cabbibo.
The UK version seems a lot less staged or edited.
The made-for-TV drama of it all — and the general level of over-the-top absurdity — can make you wonder if Kitchen Nightmares is just totally fake.
But Fox executives weren't quite ready to lose the show, and so they figured out a compromise: shelve Kitchen Nightmares, wait a few years, and then revamp the concept with a different. If there's anything in life Gordon Ramsay doesn't suffer, it's fools and undercooked scallops. Joe was a brilliant chef, and our thoughts go out to his.