I was joking. Poorly.
The U.S. version of Kitchen Nightmares is so different, terrible and near unwatchable I consider it to be a completely separate show from the UK one.
I like the host of Bar Rescue, I could see where people think he's a douchebag though because he has studied everything and you have these local guys or "stars" who resist everything he tells him even though they can barely stay open.
I also didn't think bars would be so great for this, but then I watched Tabitha's Salon Takeover and I got opened up to how this concept works for everything, and then watching this I realized that bars were sorta the perfect business for this type of show. A lot of the restaurant versions have people that are generally just in over their heads but are often otherwise good people who would be fine doing something else, for both salons and bars it seems to be that they're just completely clueless people who don't want to actually work who seem to cluster around these disaster rides to take advantage of the owners who are also completely clueless until it collapses and then they jump to the next one.
In the bars especially you have these ones where they just stop cleaning and doing anything; except just catering to the regulars who make them no money and drive off everyone new.
Almost none of the first season deals with the families and crap like the US Kitchen Nightmares, it's almost strictly business. (Unless it's like a dad who owns the bar with his sons type of thing.)
