The original Kitchen Nightmares episode was aired in May 2013 but filmed in December 2012. So I’m a little amazed that the restaurant is still in business. (They have a webpage, of course, on which you can buy t-shirts with charming slogans like, “Here’s Your Pizza go F**K yourself!”)
I can understand. The place is right across from a movie theater I go to, and sometimes I am tempted to go in there, just to see for myself how bad it is. Never have, never will, but there must be others, curious like me, but with less will power. 
Thanks for the bumps. I’ll see how long I can stomach this tonight. 
It’s not the least bit surprising that these two assholes thrive on the attention. But how it god’s name has their restaurant not been firebombed yet?
Amy: “It’s like Disneyland for the crazy!”
And you’re Annette, bitch!
People have started going exactly to wallow in the abuse?
Wait, somebody is running a real-life Coffee of Doom?
Those poor people! It was all because of how the show was edited! 
Yeah, if, instead of gorgeous hipsters and Dale, the staff consisted of crystal meth Hanners and Fredo Corleone.
Clueless… Dr. Phil told them not to engage, but apparently that is not what they can do. (Shrug)
I wouldn’t blame you, but the episode is an amazing train wreck. I generally don’t care for the American versions of shows done by Ramsey but this is one time I don’t think the producers did any editing to falsely create drama.
I was disappointed with the “return to Amy’s Baking Company.” Most of the hour included a recap of the first episode, a description of the media shitstorm that resulted and extra footage from that episode. The only new bit was about ten minutes at the end in which a reporter went back to that restaurant.
The original episode seemed to raise two questions that I didn’t see addressed. One was the rumors about the husband’s questionable immigration status. The second was regarding the tips kept by the owners. Is that legal?
We were discussing whether the producers may have edited it unfairly and The Fella made the comment: “They may****have edited out some of the sane, but you can’t edit IN that much crazy.”
I have to admit, if I were in Scottsdale, I would have an odd desire to go. Just to see for myself–order the cheapest thing on the menu and just people watch.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that if you pay minimum wage it might be OK. But I’m of the opinion that it’s wrong for the owners to keep any tips that are left.
I must say, I thought it was pretty weak sauce that one two occasions, while showing the Internet’s reaction to the ordeal, they showed a brief clip of Pizza Burning, which had absolutely nothing to do with ABC, and in fact predated that episode by a few years.
It is hilarious and awesome, so you’re doing yourself no favor by avoiding it.
Huh. Well that’s just an AGIF of the youtube clip, but I guess I can easily see someone from the show pulling that up as a search result and including it in the examples.
It’s LEGAL but it leads to customer and server dissatisfaction.
If you do it, you have to micromanage the crap out of the servers to get good service out of them… and if the customers find out, they will never tip again. Which means you might as well just ban tipping.
That;s the thing. There are plenty of no-tipping restaurants. (Fast-food places, for example, but even nicer, more expensive places.) But in those cases, there are signs, or a notice on the menu that tips are not expected or accepted. This place didn’t seem to be doing that; people were leaving tips and expecting them to go to the servers, not the owners.