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Amy's Baking Company closing down
Topic Started: Jul 10 2015, 09:17 PM (172 Views)
Tybee
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Remember these two lunatics from Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares"? How they stayed open after that disaster I'll never know.
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One of the biggest restaurant industry scandals in 2013 revolved around Amy's Baking Company — a restaurant in Scottsdale, Ariz. made famous after its appearance on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares — and its two notoriously illogical owners. Today, the Associated Press confirms the restaurant owned by Samy and Amy Bouzaglo will close. The owners are in negotiations to sell the property, though they plan to retain the name. Amy Bouzaglo told the AP that she will be "making desserts for a Phoenix-area restaurant group" and will also tape a series of online instructional videos on cooking and baking. (We can hardly wait.)

Amy's Baking Company is a unique story among restaurant industry scandals. The restaurant's original claim to fame occurred in a 2013 episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in which Ramsay famously threw his hands in the air and gave up after watching the Bouzaglos steal servers' tips and yell at customers. People on social media and fans of Ramsay were outspoken in their judgment of Amy's, but the owners struck back in a big way, calling the show's fans "pathetic" and "trash," among other, mostly misspelled insults.

Not long after, they claimed their Facebook page had been hacked and that they hadn't written any of those insults themselves. An interview with a local radio station — in which Amy Bouzaglo sounded paranoid ("My husband and I started to feel that we were surrounded by Yelpers.") — didn't help things. Even drama king Guy Fieri was in "awe."

The latest news from Amy's Baking Company? Last October the owners sued Gordon Ramsay for sexual harassment.

The Bouzaglos told the AP that their restaurant drama from the past two years had nothing to do with the sale of the business. They claim instead that they had issues with their building's landlord.

https://www.eater.com/2015/7/10/8928887/kitchen-nightmares-amys-baking-company-shutter
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You know he thinks he is serving some Giorgio Armani realness in that photo.

My rule of thumb is to be very skeptical about the "realness" of reality TV.

People may be crazy, but not for the reasons seen in the show. For example, they may have been so hungry for fame and to blow up, they risked their business by exhibiting calculated, outrageous behaviour.

They may have thought, "Oh well, we may lose this restaurant, but we'll get our own reality show and make even more money."

It blew up in their faces, but it still may have all been fake.
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Absolutely anything is possible with these reality TV types. However, back during the brouhaha I found a forum where a couple former employees (or so they claimed) of this duo were posting and they corroborated that they were both absolute lunatics to work for. One gal said she had gone to work for an eatery nearby and the wife would come into the restaurant and start talking crazy, threatening her if she dared to ever mention her name or the restaurant again.

The crazy broad spent 14 months in prison for bank fraud. All in all, I'm betting they are indeed both as corrupt and loony as can be.
Edited by Tybee, Jul 11 2015, 10:39 AM.
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They probably are. They look like a Mafia couple.
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I have a hard time focusing on that image due to the horrendous glare from those fake teeth.
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The unnaturally white teeth really bring out the racoony look of his eyes.
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Not to mention those oversized veneers in her humongous head that clearly were modeled on the teeth of a Clydesdale.
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Their offspring (both male and female) would look like Steven Cojocaru.

http://i.dlisted.com/files/galleries/satc_premiere_arrivals_56_wenn2861679.jpg
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