What percent Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares are still open?
Purpose: To investigate how successfully Gordon Ramsay was at saving restaurants in his U.K. reality show “ Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares ” (2004-2007) and the American version, “ Kitchen Nightmares ” (2007-2014). Source(s): I extracted restaurant names from each episode (n = 99) and used a variety of measures to investigate if they are still operational. I first used fan-run websites to generate a list of restaurants that have been reported as closed (e.g., www.kitchennightmaresupdates.com or www.realitytvrevisited.com ). Of those remaining theoretically still open kitchens, I checked google maps listings for the restaurant, looked for restaurant websites, looked for restaurant Facebook pages, catering services, and searched for online discussions that often crop up about reality show restaurants. Here is an excel file with the results. While there were several kitchens temporarily closed for COVID, I counted these as still operational. I'm fairly confident none of ...