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S1 E15

Kitchen Nightmares · Season 1, Episode 15

Gordon, Jake and others in “Unfinished Business”

[Gordon goes to confront Jake about the kitchen’s constant microwaving of food]

Greek restaurant? More like a Greek tragedy.

JJake

(interview) It pisses me off. What I think about my food is, it's healthy, it's fresh, it's—it's good. It's damn good.

Yeah, reheated microwave food.

JJake

Listen, it's not microwave food. I mean, how else am I gonna reheat it? You're breaking my balls about getting—reheating it in a microwave.

[points to one of the chefs] He's been cooking 14 years. There's a whole stove there; it’s not even being used! And this guy (Chef Mike) is like this... [opens and closes microwave door three times] Come on, Jake! Fuck me.

JJake

(interview) I don't use the word “microwave.” I'm not cooking it in the microwave. I'm reheating it in the microwave. Big difference. There's a big difference. (normal) I don't think it compromises the food, reheating it that way, but I mean—

Say that again? You don't think it compromises the food?

JJake

I don't think so.

Oh, my God!

AAthena

Oh, they’re gonna have a big fight. Oh, my God. [begins praying] Please, God.

It doesn't compromise the standard of food?

JJake

No.

Wow.

JJake

Yeah, you fuck off. How's that? There we go. Go. Get out of my line.

Jake.

JJake

Yeah.

Jake.

JJake

I gotta—look, I'm trying to put out food...

Yeah, Jake. Let me tell you something.

JJake

...I'm not here to talk about—

Take your head out of your arse and just start acting like a man and start taking responsibility for something, will you?

JJake

I am taking responsibility for it.

You are? And you think it's smart, telling me to fuck off?

JJake

I don’t want to fu—I don't want to fuck around.

So how about showing a little bit of respect for what you're doing?

JJake

Go. Get off my line and let me do my job. Get out of here.

Jake... Jake, I'll go, with pleasure.

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