Can The Walnut Tree Inn Be Saved? The 2024 Update After Kitchen Nightmares

[@HeavenlyPhantomStar]

I think Francesco was one of those people that just wanted to have a restaurant where only the "elite" and wealthy would come to. Kinda like that one guy from Juniper Hill on Hotel Hell.

[@SqualidsargeStudios]

Yeah, those kinda owners are just idiots.

[@kristimccabe8288]

This reminded me of the one Hotel Hell episode "Juniper Hill" too where the owners did the same thing basically only catering to the rich and their friend's who they let them stay for free

[@manticorephoenix]

The funny thing about those cases is the owners picking remote blue collar towns to hold their upper crust, high end, invitation only establishment, and complaining about lack of customers 😂

[@Omegamega1313]

Yes, and like the guy who opened his private club in England for £200, 000 a year for membership. He thought prestige would make people flock in, and when they didn't he was left with the subpar chef he'd hired (cheap, no doubt) and his tearaway fledglings who couldn't really cook. Oh! What to do? Mysteriously (or not, depending on how jaded you are) the place burned down. End of the story of a pompous man who thought other pompous people would want to just be among their own kind, and pay him to provide them with the setting, and cheesy shark for a nice change from actually good food.

[@eekaygames]

Francesco just wanted the PR and didn't want to change a thing because he thought everything was fine the way it is.

[@luciagianquitto4010]

Dude was so stubborn he NEVER LISTENED TO THE ADVICES HE WAS GIVEN

[@FoundaPeanut]

this shows there is a fine line between ego and professionalism

[@Omegamega1313]

As a long time cook and sometimes hardware store clerk in a small town flooded with tourists every summer, I swear you can't dismiss your locals. They spend their money where they feel most welcome, where they're respected and known by name. They're your bread and butter when the tourists aren't around, and they will spend more money at a place where they feel welcome than somewhere they're ignored. This man doesn't get it. The old owner made that community feel warm and welcome. This guy has all the warmth of a dead fish. Shame. 8:37

[@phantomhurricane666]

ainsley harriot is a legend and used to have his own cooking show: can't cook, won't cook. he's even appeared in sitcoms such as we are klang, and red dwarf.

[@RealityTVRescues]

you forgot Ready, Steady, Twat

[@phantomhurricane666]

@@RealityTVRescues he also appeared in a christmas episode of my family.

[@TammieR-B]

Seems like the place was full of arrogant jerks. He couldn't care less about lower prices affecting the quality, he just wanted to make more money. I'll be going to Wales for vacation in April, maybe we'll hunt this place up. Thanks as always for the awesome updates 👍💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@RealityTVRescues]

No problem and enjoy your holiday in Wales! Let us know how the Walnut Tree is if you go there

[@NormalJinx]

Typical stubborn owner making a mess out of it.

[@MrFunreal]

The owner doesn't care about the pricing opinions of the townsfolk. His only possible steady income of locals who always come to him. He doesn't care. What?

[@walpoleandworcester]

Cheapskate owner with a restaurant full of potential but made a hash out of it!

[@Omegamega1313]

I'm in one of those now. The food I'm being asked to serve is a bit embarrassing, and I know my community and I know for a fact they would fill our restaurant every day for better food. But all he thinks of is: keep food costs low and keep prices high. He's sure it will pay off eventually. I'm sad as a cook. Feel like I'm just being wasted on an owner who doesn't see sense and doesn't care.

[@IStealButterdToast]

Haven’t seen this episode in years, still as nuts as I can remember

[@007JNR]

Forget how crazy this episode was 😅😭

[@kifacorea]

A michelin star review. 👏 bravo!

[@ts.elliot5870]

The countryside looks amazing!

[@TaliZVasTyria]

Damn stubborn owner refuses to promote his own chef when they were proven to be creative and work hard. No wonder that guy choses to left. He saw no future there He lost a good employee because of this

[@luciagianquitto4010]

I Will never understand why he refused to give the role to One of the Two promising pepole HE ALREADY HAD IN HIS TEAM

[@rebeccar8735]

Barnacles 😶

[@007JNR]

Lol - great update.

[@007JNR]

Mick-row-ayeve

[@christinebeames712]

£30.000 for nights and weekends and long hours ,,,

[@Kleavers]

Inflation. That's worth a lot more now.

[@RealityTVRescues]

that was back when the pound was 2:1 to the dollar, so it would have been $60k USD back in 2003. As someone else mentioned in another comment with inflation that would be like $85,000 today. Also I'm sure the cost of living in rural Wales isn't very much either.

[@aquariumstatik8497]

30 thousand a year? Thats poverty wages goddamn.

[@joeshittheragman6252]

20 years ago? Because that's when this was filmed

[@auburn1357]

Yeah that's roughly 85,000 USD today so not quite poverty

[@mimiyouy3491]

Hé was too stubborn.

[@ryanisaaks]

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