Most Restaurants 'Saved' By Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' Are Now Closed

Most episodes of reality reveals about equipping distressed companies --"Kitchen Nightmares,""Bar Rescue,""Tabatha Takes Over" -- accompany a narrative arc as reassuringly predictable as people in"Law & Order." Into the company, the expert comes in the first action and finds an array of issues. Information is resisted, although in the next action, the specialist attempts to convince the company owner to modify. And in the next act, the company owner follows the host information sees the error of their ways and finds success.

In the event of Gordon Ramsay's"Kitchen Nightmares," at least, the restaurants frequently neglect.

We know this since the straightforwardly named "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Website" monitors the failure and success of restaurants once they appear on the show. The site's careful research shows that a whopping 61 percent of all of the restaurants who have been"stored" from Gordon Ramsay are currently closed.

Unsurprisingly, the failure rate is best for restaurants which were showcased on the series longest past; all but two of those restaurants around the first two seasons of this American"Kitchen Nightmares" are closed. And stay open. Of these six survivors, the men and women who possessed them when Ramsay stormed through their kitchens still own only three.

The restaurant business is incredibly hard, so we should not be overly surprised that some location that has been open and fighting back in 2004, if the U.K."Kitchen Nightmares" premiered, has since shuttered. However, it will take a few of the magic from shows such as this. Then again, maybe we ought to have ceased thinking in that form of magic long past.