# Would you eat at a Kitchen Nightmares restaurant?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking, reality-or-game-show\
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-at-a-kitchen-nightmares-restaurant/952522 "2021-10-15T00:42:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-at-a-kitchen-nightmares-restaurant/952522/40 "2021-10-16T11:10:04Z")

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> [@pullin](#):
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> Maybe something like Shark Tank for struggling restaurants (never actually watched it)?

On a tangential note, I’m going up to Seattle on Sunday, and while I’m there I plan on visiting a recently-opened location of a chain restaurant that was funded by Shark Tank.

> **[Home - Fat Shack](https://www.fatshack.com/)**
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> Fat Shack serves Burgers, Wings and our FAMOUS Fat Sandwiches. Open for lunch, dinner and LATE NIGHT with 28 locations across the US.

Partly because it sounds delicious, and partly because the concept of “THE FAMOUS FAT SANDWICH” has haunted my nightmares ever since 2008 when I read about them in this thread;

> [@Weird things that have happened to you in restaurants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-have-happened-to-you-in-restaurants/473039/2):
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> Last night, my husband and I were walking home from the train station after a long day in the city. We were trying to get to our car, which was parked a few blocks down and in somewhat isolated area. It was dark and rainy, with few people on the streets. I turned to him. ‘‘I am starving.’’ He agreed, and at that exact moment in time, we stumbled across an otherwise deserted parking lot with rows of what I can only describe as tiny trailers plastered with menu items. The two in the front we…

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