Seventy-seven restaurants have been featured in the American series of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, according to Grub Street.
As of June 2014, 30 (38.86%) are still open and 47 (61.84%) have closed down. Approximate number of restaurants closed within one year of (or before) the episode air dates is 23 (29.87%)
And just six of the 21 restaurants (as of June 2015) featured on the British version, which ended in 2009, remain open, reports Huffington Post.
We hold nothing against Kitchen Nightmares. We salute the fact that the show aimed to revive failing restaurants.
Ramsay's skyhigh ego is so infectious that you want to believe every single word that he say. For a novice, Kitchen Nightmares entertained and most of the time educated an inexperienced viewer on how running a resto should be done.
Read what Gene Marks (president of The Marks Group) had to say on why most restaurants featured on 'Kitchen Nightmares' fail.
Check out Forbes' 5 Tips For Cooking Up A Successful Restaurant Business.