Which reality show features Gordon Ramsay helping struggling restaurants?

Which reality show features Gordon Ramsay helping struggling restaurants? Kitchen Nightmares is the reality series in which Ramsay works with failing restaurants to improve their food, service, management, and business prospects.

The format began in the United Kingdom as Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on Channel 4 in 2004. Ramsay typically visited a restaurant facing serious problems, observed its operation, challenged the owners and staff, and introduced practical changes such as a shorter menu, improved kitchen systems, or a refreshed restaurant concept. He often returned later to see whether the changes had lasted.

An American adaptation, Kitchen Nightmares, premiered on Fox in 2007. It used the same basic premise but featured restaurants in the United States. The title can therefore refer specifically to the American series, while Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares usually identifies the British original.

A common mix-up is confusing this program with Hell’s Kitchen, another Ramsay series. Hell’s Kitchen is a chef competition staged around a restaurant kitchen; Kitchen Nightmares focuses on helping existing restaurants in trouble.