Restaurant Impossible Score Card

Ever wonder how successful Robert Irvine is on these things?

http://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/p/restaurant-impossible-updates.html

http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,252013,252187#msg-252187

Paliani's discussed above has apparently closed. Owner kept bringing the kid to work.

http://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/2012/12/palianis-from-restaurant-impossible-to.html#.UgV8OG2t2ng

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

yeah...that was probably the most disgusting.

there have been things Irvine says on the show that seem questionable, such as:

-cooking raw meat in a finished sauce. I know a lot of italian families that put raw sausage, meatballs and chicken into sauce to poach it and infuse flavor into the sauce. I think as long as everything is cooked thoroughly, you are good. (not to mention that you see people poach raw meat in sauce regularly in Diners, Drive ins and Douchebags)

-he criticized a guy for using a store bought spice mix (seasoned salt) as a meat rub, then promptly shows him a recipe for a rub that included at least three store bought spice mixes in it (curry powder, seafood seasoning and one I can't recall off the top of my head).

-complaining of all the things catching dust, then his designers creating dusting nightmares in the place (open and glued down milk bottles, a motorcycle under a counter, hanging gigantic ceiling fixtures, crazy looking lamps and in one, a gigantic three dimensional plywood wall decoration).

I don't have Food Network. Is this like "Kitchen Nightmares"? I love that show. A lot if not most of the restaurants still end up closing after Ramsay visits them, though.