# Any updates on Amy's Baking Co?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 10, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-amys-baking-co/709466 "2015-01-10T13:18:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-amys-baking-co/709466/21 "2015-01-11T20:27:16Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> The thing is, why go on Kitchen Nightmares in the first place, then? Money-laundering kind of depends on being just one of the millions of faceless small businesses barely hanging onto life. Why go on an internationally-seen cable show hosted by an internationally famous chef? It’s stupid. Not that anything else they’ve been doing is SMART or anything, granted.

My theory is that Samy the Israeli gangster set up the place for his wife _and_ to use it to launder money, but his wife is unaware of the restaurant’s real purpose. She applied to _Kitchen Nightmares_, and then Samy did everything possible to make sure the show left in a hurry. Turns out his wife helped him in that endeavor by being a nutjob anyway.

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**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-amys-baking-co/709466/22 "2015-01-12T08:41:02Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> My theory is that Samy the Israeli gangster set up the place for his wife _and_ to use it to launder money, but his wife is unaware of the restaurant’s real purpose. She applied to _Kitchen Nightmares_, and then Samy did everything possible to make sure the show left in a hurry. Turns out his wife helped him in that endeavor by being a nutjob anyway.

**Friedo** , your theory makes a _lot_ of sense. It’s the best explanation of those two that’s heard yet.

Would it be catty to say it’s a pity he didn’t spend some of his money on a better plastic surgeon for Amy? That inept nosejob, ugh!

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-amys-baking-co/709466/23 "2015-01-13T03:27:14Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> That is the purpose of the show- to try to save failing restaurants. When Ramsey went in and said they can’t act that way and they need to improve their food, the owners flipped out.

No, the purpose of the show is to get people to tune in and watch outrageous train wrecks then a sudden turn around for the happy “ending”. But even the places that are supposedly saved tend to shut down within a year or two. If you have to go on reality TV for your business, it’s already doomed.

This is the US version, the UK version is more of a documentary where they perhaps are trying to save things. I don’t know the track record there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of those closed as well.

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