Kitchen Nightmares Australia will premiere Wednesday, 12 October, on Channel Seven and 7plus.
Outspoken and award-winning Colin Fassnidge will not hold back as he serves up tough love to restaurants around Australia flirting with failure.
Fassnidge will use his 28 years of restaurant experience in the business to go behind the kitchen doors of a different establishment each week and provide brutally honest feedback and practical insights to real-life business owners whose livelihoods are on the line.
Tensions will flare, and conflicts arise as he exposes where the kitchens go wrong before arming the owners and staff with the secrets to running a profitable restaurant.
Discussing why now is the perfect time for Kitchen Nightmares Australia, Fassnidge said: “Restaurants across Australia have been hit hard over the past couple of years and livelihoods are on the line.
“I’ve learnt a fair bit in the restaurant game over the last 28 years and I can’t wait to help out a bunch of businesses with plenty of advice and a healthy dose of honesty,” Fassnidge added.
The Dublin-born chef is a well-known face on Australian screens, having previously appeared on SBS’s The Cook Up with Adam Liaw and perhaps his most notable role as a judge on Channel Seven’s My Kitchen Rules.
Fassnidge has trained under renowned chef Raymond Blanc, and has held the role of executive chef of the two-hatted restaurant The Four in Hand Dining Room in Paddington in Sydney. He is also the owner of hatted restaurant 4Fourteen in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
Kitchen Nightmares Australia is produced by Eureka Productions for the Seven Network, based on the hit global format distributed by All3Media International.
The show is based on the popular global format of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, which begun in the UK and was hosted by Gordon Ramsay.
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