@@trumpet12345he looks like Penn ate Teller. Fat heavy breather wanting his free meal. They used to advertise on Craigslist and the sheep would line up for hours just to get a free meal and hoping to be on tv.
I could be reading too much into it but I thought it was a Irish inslut since they were all about ND. Because that randomly is just so odd. Throw in bigotry to explain it 🤔.
Granted he did the same thing in the UK Kitchen Nightmares but it made sense considering the restaurant was formerly a church (The Priory). In this it just looks weird.
to this day, i always thought "j willy" was a play on jesus christ. looking back, how on earth did i think that??? JC is not the same as JW. maybe all the religious stuff in this episode had me confused
Former SB resident here. The town's got a huge religious background, what with Notre Dame being right next to it. The church they were at was literally a stone's throw away from the restaurant, so it's likely one producer saw it and went "put Gordon in a confessional and make him look like he's absolving that dude's sins." Also, SB is a trash fire of a town. Don't go there.
That's what debt does. A lot of companies have gone under just because of massive debt payments. There's even a meme on the Company Man channel that once you hear "leveraged buyout" (where the debt is added to the company being bought), it's over.
It’s not an outlandish amount. If my business only makes 1 million per year there likely will not be any profit. Wages, rent, insurance, food, electricity, plus obvious loans they’ve taken out, it adds up
For an FYI. Most fast food restaurants generally will do like 2.5-4.5k/day in sales depending on how good and busy the store is. That's 105k average if you're saying 3.5k/day average. I've been in a company that had 75 stores, and that's probably the average daily sales. They generally have about a 8-12% profit margin. Meaning if you used an average of a 10% profit margin, they'd need to make 94.5k/month to break even, rest being profit. Actual dine-in restaurants normally have a higher sales, but less profit margin, unless they sell alcohol, which is a huge profit maker. Since these are failing restaurants their sales are really low though, but they still have similar costs minus as high of a food cost since they aren't going through food if they don't have customers purchasing food. Probably if they were actually busy and going through food, they'd need maybe 100k/month to break even. But 88k/month is not unreasonable. Especially with high debts. edit: Also forgot this is 2008 so probably need to halve most of these numbers for them to equate lmao. But also, probably half of that cost was debt, so still makes sense. They were basically on their last leg.
Did seem kinda dramatic, but tbf sometimes if ur hungry enough it can mess with your hormones and make you more emotional lmao. It's happened to me a few times, where a small set back made me well up or really snappy and irritable and then I realised I hadnt had anything to eat in a while
@@ananonymousbean2731it’s scientifically proven that hunger affects people mood swings. Because hunger is a natural response from your stomach to your brain telling you that nutritional deficiency is in affect and your body needs the nutrients to function properly. Without that natural response, us humans and other animals wouldn’t be able to survive
It's so funny -- I lived in South Bend for awhile, driven past where J Willy's used to be several times, yet I had no idea until a year and a half after I moved that it was a place, let alone one featured on Kitchen Nightmares.
That's what I hear! Somebody told me it's all of the negatives of suburbia, rural life, and city living, but without a lot of the benefits you'd get from any one of those situations.
Northwest Indiana resident over here. Nobody likes South Bend unless you’re a Jesus Freak or go to either Norte Dame/ Saint Mary’s. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to drive through.
@@RealityTVRescues no. In fact in this videos you make i saw things that i never liked , even more the ones that came out from italian or italian-american places (but i never judge the italian-american places because i know that italian immigrants created that recipes because they had to use what the united states gave them with the few Money they had)
@@RealityTVRescues we strongly dislike It but we understand that for immigrants among 1850-1960 It was harder to find the exact same ingredients to use in their cooking.
@luciagianquitto4010 I wish everyone had your attitude about it sooo many don't and it earns you guys the rap of being REALLY snobby like French level of snobbery
@@NyanyiCpeople will always mock Jesus and God no matter what, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. But as a Christian it didn't really offend me
A BBQ restaurant is a great idea. But to do it correctly is very difficult and requires training and equipment. When done right it can be incredibly profitable. Done wrong word of mouth will close the place.
Pulled pork cheese boat?! How are you supposed to order something that immediately is a horror to picture in your mind? I have no idea how old these two owners are. I thought maybe in their 50s, but then talked about having a baby?
No fr and the lady who went to the kitchen to complain? Like I know the producers probably encouraged it but it’s like …. If u don’t like it just leave. Nobody has a gun to ur head LOL
Even though she cried, she spoke in a nice way to the staff about the bad food, which makes me want to believe that she didn't breakdown just because of the subpar food. She probably had a bad day or something, heard that a famous chef is in town to save a local restaurant from closing, and decided to dine there to end the day on a high note, but the bad experience was her last straw. Regardless, the situation was ridiculously funny 😂
I love sourdough, but yes it needed to be toasted. But I bet they didn't even toast the buns before they ran out. Sad. Because otherwise I'd prefer the sourdough over a bun anyway.
I can update. I live in New Orleans. The owners won some sort of lawsuit, which ripped the video off of both tv syndications and TH-cam- they’ll also take down any video talking about it. The ownership changed at some point, but it’s still the exact same kind of restaurant it was: frozen food poorly reheated. Locals DO NOT eat there, and it’s kept open with lines out the door with drunk Bourbon Street tourists who outrageously voted it the #1 restaurant in New Orleans. Which, is the biggest insult to NOLA cuisine we’ve ever heard. Staff turnover is extremely high, but notably the wait staff make massive tips with how successful it is, regardless of the deplorable way it’s run. In short, nothing sank in, they’re the same restaurant they were in the episode, and they just have good lawyers and brilliant marketing team.
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Imagine, you’re hungry and you go to a restaurant. They have a burger special and you order it. You see other people getting the burger and it looks good. You’re excited, but your food is taking a while. You’re tired and when it finally arrives: you get a frozen beef patty between two oversized pieces of sourdough. Every element that really defines the burger has been substituted out with a cheap farce of what you had ordered. You’ve been waiting patiently, you didn’t do anything wrong, other people got theirs fine, but yours is a mess. You don’t yell at anyone, you don’t rip into the server, you just point out how what you received isn’t what the restaurant said they could make, and then the emotions set in and you start crying. Then the entire world sees you crying, calls you a Karen, and says that you’re entitled because “of course they would run out of the burger special at this crap place” or “it’s just bread lady, get over it.” I know it’s reality TV guys. But, if you can’t see why somebody could reasonably get upset at receiving a mucked up order after a long wait, then you are simply heartless. Learn some empathy
Nah she's dramatic. Going to a restaurant for kitchen nightmares means 50/50 chance that she took. Maybe id cry if I got a reservation at hells kitchen and they sucked.
I think that is a valiant attempt to justify an overreaction. I am not sure if she missed all of the cameras and Gordon Ramsey running around the restaurant floor, but she was on a TV show called Kitchen Nightmares. There is a chance the food won't be great. Unless there was an underlying issue we are unaware of, it was a ridiculous overreaction.
I can't believe the waitress is defending j willy during that debate, the other 2 owners is clearly too far to be able to deal with the restaurant, which was under j willy's name. Willy is like a deer in headlights and he clearly did not carem
Crying because your burger 🍔 was placed on sourdough bread???…. This Karen should be crying for the many people (most of which are children) that have to endure days without any food or water. Geez, give me a break lady. I seriously hope this was money gets shamed online for her poor behavior 🤡 Typical Karen.
@RealityTVRescues It really is. Every place around here will at least have a chicken, bacon, ranch pizza. Dipping any pizza in homemade buttermilk ranch is where it's at though 😋
Entertainment but also to overall improve the restaurants but one of the reasons why the show ended in the first place before it being revived is because Gordon was disappointed at most of the restaurants he helped being closed down.
I completely lost focus after that woman started crying over her burger. I mean, seriously? It makes me wonder if something terrible must have happened to her before, or if she's just the most pampered person in the world.
She was nice after that so really, she had a bad day. And honestly, it is understandable because scientifically, if you are not in a good mood and haven't eaten, your emotions are really different which I been there a lot of times.
It's amazing to me how people can't accept responsibility for their own failure. you can blame the economy all you want but it sounds like you were and continued to serve bunk a$$ food and the sauce could not save you. The sauce you didn't even come up with. Just admit your restaurant was awful and you failed. Plenty a place stayed open. Your 💩 just sucked. Sorry.
"How do you run out of potatoes?" Said the man where literally every customer is ordering potatoes
Simple. They didn't buy enough. Not that hard to understand dude. 😂
Penn jillette's distant cousin is not one to question! (or at least I think he looks semi close to Penn of Penn and Teller)
@@trumpet12345he looks like Penn ate Teller. Fat heavy breather wanting his free meal. They used to advertise on Craigslist and the sheep would line up for hours just to get a free meal and hoping to be on tv.
I could be reading too much into it but I thought it was a Irish inslut since they were all about ND. Because that randomly is just so odd. Throw in bigotry to explain it 🤔.
Restaurants shouldn't run out of ingredients in the middle of service. It's unprofessional.
The confessional scene in the church is definitely one of Ramsay’s more bizarre tactics.
Granted he did the same thing in the UK Kitchen Nightmares but it made sense considering the restaurant was formerly a church (The Priory). In this it just looks weird.
This scene is actually cut from the UK broadcast of this episode!
It's not that bizzare. He often takes people to places locally to prove a point. The town probably had a lot of churches
to this day, i always thought "j willy" was a play on jesus christ. looking back, how on earth did i think that??? JC is not the same as JW. maybe all the religious stuff in this episode had me confused
Former SB resident here. The town's got a huge religious background, what with Notre Dame being right next to it. The church they were at was literally a stone's throw away from the restaurant, so it's likely one producer saw it and went "put Gordon in a confessional and make him look like he's absolving that dude's sins."
Also, SB is a trash fire of a town. Don't go there.
When breaking even is $88,000 a month that's quite a bit. Breaking even in a year is a little over $1 million
yeh i had to focus when that was said, that doesnt sound right at all
22,000 a week...
That's what debt does. A lot of companies have gone under just because of massive debt payments. There's even a meme on the Company Man channel that once you hear "leveraged buyout" (where the debt is added to the company being bought), it's over.
It’s not an outlandish amount. If my business only makes 1 million per year there likely will not be any profit. Wages, rent, insurance, food, electricity, plus obvious loans they’ve taken out, it adds up
For an FYI.
Most fast food restaurants generally will do like 2.5-4.5k/day in sales depending on how good and busy the store is. That's 105k average if you're saying 3.5k/day average. I've been in a company that had 75 stores, and that's probably the average daily sales. They generally have about a 8-12% profit margin. Meaning if you used an average of a 10% profit margin, they'd need to make 94.5k/month to break even, rest being profit.
Actual dine-in restaurants normally have a higher sales, but less profit margin, unless they sell alcohol, which is a huge profit maker.
Since these are failing restaurants their sales are really low though, but they still have similar costs minus as high of a food cost since they aren't going through food if they don't have customers purchasing food. Probably if they were actually busy and going through food, they'd need maybe 100k/month to break even. But 88k/month is not unreasonable. Especially with high debts.
edit: Also forgot this is 2008 so probably need to halve most of these numbers for them to equate lmao.
But also, probably half of that cost was debt, so still makes sense. They were basically on their last leg.
Moment I heard Southbend and $22,000, I knew it was a huge waste of time, even without the 2008 recession
Oh that’s right 2008 screwed over so many people and businesses.
Facts
The customer crying is such drama lol
I know, like lady chill
I know like I get wanting to have a good burger buts not the end of the world.
Yup definitely. Lady is a Karen.
Did seem kinda dramatic, but tbf sometimes if ur hungry enough it can mess with your hormones and make you more emotional lmao. It's happened to me a few times, where a small set back made me well up or really snappy and irritable and then I realised I hadnt had anything to eat in a while
@@ananonymousbean2731it’s scientifically proven that hunger affects people mood swings. Because hunger is a natural response from your stomach to your brain telling you that nutritional deficiency is in affect and your body needs the nutrients to function properly. Without that natural response, us humans and other animals wouldn’t be able to survive
Seeing Chef Scott walk into my place of work would put the fear of god in me
It's so funny -- I lived in South Bend for awhile, driven past where J Willy's used to be several times, yet I had no idea until a year and a half after I moved that it was a place, let alone one featured on Kitchen Nightmares.
You need $22000 a week in 2008 in a small college town to break even? Yeah, you're done.
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Thanks Tammie! You are still my #1 fav though 😘
South bend is rough as hell
Really, is it that bad?
That's what I hear! Somebody told me it's all of the negatives of suburbia, rural life, and city living, but without a lot of the benefits you'd get from any one of those situations.
@@lolabelle4959 Yes
It's all about that football team,ND.
Northwest Indiana resident over here. Nobody likes South Bend unless you’re a Jesus Freak or go to either Norte Dame/ Saint Mary’s. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to drive through.
Here in italy pizza with baked potatoes and sausage is well known and some restaurants have it , but that baked potatoes pizza looked WEIRD
I doubt the Italians put ranch dressing on their pizza ;)
@@RealityTVRescues no. In fact in this videos you make i saw things that i never liked , even more the ones that came out from italian or italian-american places (but i never judge the italian-american places because i know that italian immigrants created that recipes because they had to use what the united states gave them with the few Money they had)
Thanks for the comment. I always wondered what real Italians thought of Italian-American food... It must seem like some weird nightmare version of it.
@@RealityTVRescues we strongly dislike It but we understand that for immigrants among 1850-1960 It was harder to find the exact same ingredients to use in their cooking.
@luciagianquitto4010 I wish everyone had your attitude about it sooo many don't and it earns you guys the rap of being REALLY snobby like French level of snobbery
“You’re not gonna eat that, okay? I’ll go straight to hell” has me wheeze laughing
The church part was pretty dumb in this episode.
a little gimmicky yes
As a Christian I found it a bit disrespectful
@@NyanyiC did I just hurt a Christian’s feelings? That just made my day. Thank you. Haha
@@Pie9123 🙄 how it was portrayed in the episode
@@NyanyiCpeople will always mock Jesus and God no matter what, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. But as a Christian it didn't really offend me
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A BBQ restaurant is a great idea. But to do it correctly is very difficult and requires training and equipment. When done right it can be incredibly profitable. Done wrong word of mouth will close the place.
Ok I'll rewatch Kitchen Nightmares.. congrats on 20k!
Thanks Kristan!
Pulled pork cheese boat?! How are you supposed to order something that immediately is a horror to picture in your mind?
I have no idea how old these two owners are. I thought maybe in their 50s, but then talked about having a baby?
I think the guy is definitely 50s, she seems much younger than him though. I'd say late 30s/early 40s (?)
When he says "don't just do it for chef, do it for the gipper" my entire body cringed and I still can't move
imagine crying because your subpar food at a restaurant that you know isn't very good is subpar
You’d expect something better than subpar if you know Gordon Ramsey is helping the restaurant
No fr and the lady who went to the kitchen to complain? Like I know the producers probably encouraged it but it’s like …. If u don’t like it just leave. Nobody has a gun to ur head LOL
Sometimes you just have a bad day and something like that can really make you upset.
Even though she cried, she spoke in a nice way to the staff about the bad food, which makes me want to believe that she didn't breakdown just because of the subpar food. She probably had a bad day or something, heard that a famous chef is in town to save a local restaurant from closing, and decided to dine there to end the day on a high note, but the bad experience was her last straw. Regardless, the situation was ridiculously funny 😂
Karen's gonna Karen.
They probably would be still around if they had a smaller location requiring 1/4 the staff.
I was thrilled to see my hometown on national tv despite the sad state of things
Congrats on the 20k subs dude :)
Thanks!
I never understand the people who are like "Gordon ruined this place" my guy. They were serving ROTTON FOOD.
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I hope the lady who cried over the burger is having a bad day lol 😂 I know that’s harsh but she triggered all of my service worker ptsd
I'm sure your precious fur baby helps with your stress levels
I agree. I've lost a couple jobs because I wouldn't tolerate Karen behavior
Have you worked as a server???@@RealityTVRescues
No, I have not.
She is 100% a Karen.
This one is sad, as they might have been able to turn it around and be successful, had the economy not tanked.
Another great video👌
Glad you enjoyed
When you serve a pizza with a ranch sauce that’s when you should know you don’t have a good sense of taste
Ranch is amazing,
“Was this some crap hole in Roseland?” Turns out I was right lol.
That John guy couldn't manage a Lemonade stand....🙄
7:55 do you actually have to censor "axed" as I guess you said or did the audio just lag?
Oh damn, a Biggby Coffee reference. As a native Michigander, that put a smile on my face. Was my go to for coffee when i was in college
I always re watch this episode idk why😂
You run out of buns, ok. You serve it on sourdough, sure. But you don’t even toast the bread lol. Nasty
I love sourdough, but yes it needed to be toasted. But I bet they didn't even toast the buns before they ran out.
Sad. Because otherwise I'd prefer the sourdough over a bun anyway.
Great video! Ive pretty much wayched at least 1 video a day from this channel. I cant wait until you do oceana.
I can't do that one, unfortunately. There are copyright issues that prevent me from making a video on it
@@RealityTVRescues dang. Oh, well. I'm still enjoying the channel.
I can update. I live in New Orleans. The owners won some sort of lawsuit, which ripped the video off of both tv syndications and TH-cam- they’ll also take down any video talking about it.
The ownership changed at some point, but it’s still the exact same kind of restaurant it was: frozen food poorly reheated. Locals DO NOT eat there, and it’s kept open with lines out the door with drunk Bourbon Street tourists who outrageously voted it the #1 restaurant in New Orleans. Which, is the biggest insult to NOLA cuisine we’ve ever heard.
Staff turnover is extremely high, but notably the wait staff make massive tips with how successful it is, regardless of the deplorable way it’s run. In short, nothing sank in, they’re the same restaurant they were in the episode, and they just have good lawyers and brilliant marketing team.
@@mitchravenswyck705 thank you! It sucks that they went this route. But they seemed like babies in the episode.
@@mitchravenswyck705 do we have to keep your comment on the down low 🤫🤫
PAPYRUS FONT
Isn’t that considered by many to be the worst font ever? Even worse than comic sans?
@@RealityTVRescuesi think so it looks so jagged inna bad way. 👎
@@RealityTVRescues yep, these two are legendarily bad
I like papyrus font. But a hard no to comic sans.
I watch these episodes and can just tell how bad the food would be. How can anyone eat at these places? Am I spoiled?
Just listening to ur accent, are you from Canada? %❤
I am indeed! What gave it away?
@@RealityTVRescuesfor me it was the pronunciation of 'pasta' (different episode).
@@RealityTVRescues have always noticed its the way Canadians say your, our etc. Is said slightly different ly❤️
This restaurant was down the road from my Grandparents house and I'd literally never had heard of it
I just watched this episode last night lol
great timing!
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Imagine, you’re hungry and you go to a restaurant. They have a burger special and you order it. You see other people getting the burger and it looks good. You’re excited, but your food is taking a while. You’re tired and when it finally arrives: you get a frozen beef patty between two oversized pieces of sourdough. Every element that really defines the burger has been substituted out with a cheap farce of what you had ordered. You’ve been waiting patiently, you didn’t do anything wrong, other people got theirs fine, but yours is a mess. You don’t yell at anyone, you don’t rip into the server, you just point out how what you received isn’t what the restaurant said they could make, and then the emotions set in and you start crying.
Then the entire world sees you crying, calls you a Karen, and says that you’re entitled because “of course they would run out of the burger special at this crap place” or “it’s just bread lady, get over it.”
I know it’s reality TV guys. But, if you can’t see why somebody could reasonably get upset at receiving a mucked up order after a long wait, then you are simply heartless. Learn some empathy
Nah she's dramatic. Going to a restaurant for kitchen nightmares means 50/50 chance that she took. Maybe id cry if I got a reservation at hells kitchen and they sucked.
She did too much 💀
Exactly.
I think that is a valiant attempt to justify an overreaction. I am not sure if she missed all of the cameras and Gordon Ramsey running around the restaurant floor, but she was on a TV show called Kitchen Nightmares. There is a chance the food won't be great.
Unless there was an underlying issue we are unaware of, it was a ridiculous overreaction.
you should never cry at a restaurant. who does that? babies.
I can't believe the waitress is defending j willy during that debate, the other 2 owners is clearly too far to be able to deal with the restaurant, which was under j willy's name. Willy is like a deer in headlights and he clearly did not carem
He's 100% responsible for it failing...
Honestly, I don't think John had it in him to make this sad-sack establishment work even in a period of economic boom.
Crying because your burger 🍔 was placed on sourdough bread???…. This Karen should be crying for the many people (most of which are children) that have to endure days without any food or water.
Geez, give me a break lady. I seriously hope this was money gets shamed online for her poor behavior 🤡 Typical Karen.
How can someone overreact way more than the Karen who was literally crying over a burger? Look in the mirror
If I was served a frozen burger and fries that came on sourdough bread instead of a bun I’d just get up and leave
You know there ain't no good food in that area.
Ranch is our state sauce here in Indiana, we put it on everything 😂
lol. But on pizza? Is that common?
@RealityTVRescues It really is. Every place around here will at least have a chicken, bacon, ranch pizza. Dipping any pizza in homemade buttermilk ranch is where it's at though 😋
Not going to lie, I would eat that. Chicken, bacon, ranch actually sounds kinda tasty.
@RealityTVRescues It's worth a try. I prefer BBQ on my pizza more than any other sauce personally, then dip it in ranch.
If I ever go to Indiana I am so going to try this...
LMAO IMAGINE CRYING OVER A BURGER
I always saw it as she had a really bad day and this just broke the camels back because honestly I've been there
Burger tears are the bitterest.
I'd much rather watch your video than listen to my husband whine about being sick 😂😂 perfect timing 👍💙🏴
lol poor guy… 😂
Lol❤ whereabouts in Scotland are you from?
@@lolabelle4959 North East. We just got back from holiday on the west coast and the weather was horrible, so everyone is sick 😔
What was even the point of this show most of the resturants closed
Entertainment. Gordon does care but there's just not enough time to fix everything.
Entertainment but also to overall improve the restaurants but one of the reasons why the show ended in the first place before it being revived is because Gordon was disappointed at most of the restaurants he helped being closed down.
Crying over burger and fries, that Karen has major issues.
Crying because you don't have food is understandable, crying because your food is mediocre is Karen-ish
Karen's don't cry, Karen's SCREAM !!
The confession in the church thing was pretty tacky.
Johnny cakes?!!
I want the recipes
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lol
Ah yes, i remember when Karen walked into the kitchen to announce her departure. 👱♀️
I completely lost focus after that woman started crying over her burger. I mean, seriously? It makes me wonder if something terrible must have happened to her before, or if she's just the most pampered person in the world.
She was nice after that so really, she had a bad day.
And honestly, it is understandable because scientifically, if you are not in a good mood and haven't eaten, your emotions are really different which I been there a lot of times.
It's amazing to me how people can't accept responsibility for their own failure. you can blame the economy all you want but it sounds like you were and continued to serve bunk a$$ food and the sauce could not save you. The sauce you didn't even come up with. Just admit your restaurant was awful and you failed. Plenty a place stayed open. Your 💩 just sucked. Sorry.