Michon's, a bbq restaurant in Georgia named after the middle name of the owner's daughter, hoped to one day take over but seems more content doing nothing while her father in poor health watches his once successful business dwindle away.
Gordon travels to Austin, TX home to struggling restaurant El Greco in danger of imminent collapse. It claims to be authentic Greek but much to Gordon's disgust, they secretly use 'Chef Mike' the microwave to help them on a daily basis.
Unsurprisingly, when you say the city residents are racist and don't like a minority owned restaurant, your business tanks. Then combined that with odd and bad tasting food with owners who have no restaurant experience, and you have a mess.
One mother and one sister have their money and a house on the line if Charlie's Italian eatery in Los Angeles cannot succeed, leaving the other sister to step up to the plate or watch everything be destroyed.
Gordon Ramsay travels to Philadelphia to turn around family-run restaurant Chiarella's, which is struggling to survive in an area full of thriving Italian establishments. Owners Tommy and Dina Defino's marriage is on the verge of collapse.
A Philadelphia Mexican restaurant called Zocalo played Cupid to a young couple who met, fell in love and married there. However, it seems that Cupid's arrow had a poisoned tip: the restaurant has become an albatross around their necks.
Gordon visits La Galleria 33, an Italian restaurant in Little Italy Boston run by raucous sisters Rita and Lisa who grew up working at their father's restaurant nearby, but when they opened their own place customers didn't materialize.
In Boston Gordon confronts Rita and Lisa with an ultimatum. His stand-off with the siblings is just the beginning of the explosive action. He finds himself stuck in a war with waiters, chef and owners over who is to blame for the failings.
Gordon heads to Brooklyn, New York, to tackle a sinking 55-year-old family restaurant. The owner, John Esposito, left high school at the age of 14 and has worked at his parents' business Sal's Pizzeria since. It's literally a heath hazard.
Pittsburgh PA is home to Ms Jean's Southern Cuisine run by retired special ed teacher Jean Gould. Her employees say she's like Jekyll and Hyde and that's why the locals stay away. Ms Jean insists she's only mean because staff is lazy.
Gordon visits beachside restaurant Barefoot Bob's in Hull Massachusetts owned by husband-and-wife Marc and Lisa who opened in the summer of 2004 to a busy seafront crowd, but every year the bottom line collapses in the bleak winter months.
Gordon Ramsay revisits Café Hon in Hampden, Maryland, Chiarella's in Philadelphia, and Leone's in Montclair, New Jersey, to see whether the restaurant owners have taken his advice on board.
Ramsay revisits the restaurants Spanish Pavillion, Kingston Café and La Frite, from season four, to see if they have succeeded; also an update on the lazy twins of the pizza restaurant Capri. There is good news all around.
