Kitchen Nightmares (US): WTF?

I've long been a fan of the Kitchen Nightmares series from the UK. So when I saw that Kitchen Nightmares was coming to the UK - while the UK was also starting a new season - I was thrilled. Now, having watched the first episode, I'm shocked.

I have to admit, I can't stand the American Reality Show Narration. I much prefer Gordon's own dialog; I imagine they decided Gordon was too vulgar to narrate. And that was a wise choice, once the problems of the first restaurant were revealed.

Rotten food? Outside a place with a Zagat plaque? Terrifying. The kitchen was 90% nonfunctional in technical aspects. Normally, a great deal of the problems with restaurants featured (at least in the UK edition) are on the menu or the kitchen staff. Here, the kitchen staff was operative, and the menu, while revised, was still fair. But at Peter's, the kitchen itself was in complete disrepair, and the state of the food! Reheated food purchased from a depot, refrigerated vegetables that had gone rotten, mostly due to a refrigerator that was leaking and wasn't cold enough. Terrible! And the owner... I've never seen such a temper or an attitude. Really, this episode can only be expressed by watching the nightmare literally unfold before your eyes.

And the next episode is supposed to feature a restaurant so incredibly infested, the place deserves to be condemned. This series is making the restaurant industry in the US look terrible.