Episode
Kitchen Nightmares: Classic American
Overview
The Classic American restaurant is out of food, out of cups, out of menus, and nearly out-of-business with almost a million in debt. Can Ramsay help the two well-meaning servers turned owners?
Details
- Series
- Kitchen Nightmares
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2011-01-28
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Classic American is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Kitchen Nightmares. It aired on 2011-01-28. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 1: Spanish Pavillion
Chef Ramsay visits Spanish Pavillion in Harrison, NJ, a family-run business established in 1976 whose owners, brothers Michael and Jerry, have allowed their differences to compromise the quality of the restaurant. With a head chef consistently absent from the kitchen and an unhappy staff, Chef Ramsay is determined to transform the outdated ambiance and menu in order to keep the family business afloat.
Episode 3: PJ's Steakhouse
PJ's Steakhouse is dying from a lack of control from management to food quality, with one slightly rude owner and her husband, the co-owner, sitting at the bar drinking the business day away.
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Episode 4: Revisited #1
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Episode 5: Grasshopper Also
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Episode 6: Davide
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Episode 7: Downcity
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Episode 8: Revisited #2
Chef Ramsay returns to Lido di Manhattan, Anna Vincenzo's, and Le Bistro to see if the owners have implemented his changes.
Episode 9: Café Tavolini
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Episode 10: Kingston Cafe
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Episode 11: La Frite
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Episode 12: Capri
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Episode 13: Zeke's
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