I'm glad that she's not one of the owners who blamed Gordon Ramsay for the failure of her restaurant but instead she embraced it and even still respects Gordon.
It's basically the kind of dish you would cook for yourself at home, after a long and tiring day of work, because you just don't feel like the effort of preparing anything genuinely tasty
Also, the chicken is not even cooked. If you look closely, when watching the episode, Perla didn't even use any single pan on the kichen, instead she was reheating the chicken on microwave! She was just cutting the garnish just to make the chicken looks good. And there is no single remorse every time Perla making mistakes until the supervisor chef comes out and showing how useless she is in the kitchen.
Gordon gives them a remodel, new menus, and a blueprint on how to run a restaurant. Yet people still go back to their old ways. They got no one to blame but themselves.
Yes, but something I think we all need to take a step back and REALIZE that sometimes things just don’t work out due to unforeseen circumstances, even if you’re doing everything you’re supposed to.
I think something people don't ever take into account with these situations is that it's REALLY hard to climb out of the bad reputation these places tend to have, just takes one customer's food to be cold or undercooked and them cause a fuss for all of the hard work they've done to be unravelled, convincing people something/someone hasn't changed will always be easier than convincing them it has changed
There's a big difference between catering for events/functions and running a restaurant. My friend bought a food truck two years ago. She only does functions as she can prepare for a set amount of guests, and knows what the costs and profit will be. She previously worked in restaurants so knows the difference.
I think the car wash is him having done a lot of car washing with rags. So it’s wet and mushy bit is him saying it feels like you’re eating an over soaked dirty rag.
Who would've thought that reversing all of the suggested changes, going back to the old food and keeping Perla wouldn't have been a resounding success?
Eh, I’d hate it. I’m a teacher. I get down at my kids’ level when I want to comfort them and make it clear that we’re having a serious convo. If it was done to me, I’d be low-key insulted. I’m not a child. Treat me like a mature adult. Lol.
Not only that catering is usually held to a much lower standard. It’s usually just a couple people paying and the rest eating for “free”. They might not like it but it’s a free meal. They are less likely to complain when it doesn’t cost anything and no tip is required. It’s also a lot easier to make money catering because it cost a lot less to maintain
Going from catering to restaurant cooking is like going from taking a leisurely stroll on a Sunday morning to going 75 down the highway during rush hour.
@@Tailstraw_xD I'm just happy that she still has her catering business and the ability to promote homemade sauces! I don't see this as that huge of a loss. She tried something, it failed, she returned to what she's good at, and got married.
I think Ramsey cares more this time because major problem this time was a chef trying her best but just not good enough, he understood how difficult it would be to change cooking mindset and really wanted to believe in her, but just couldn't
I think you watched a different video cause on this episode Gordon clearly didn't like Perla. He clocked immediately that she was absolutely terrible at her job and stuck around and was calmed because he believed in Laura. Perla doesn't deserve an ounce of respect or pity in this episode.
@@tunakann7629 Seriously? Their "catering" was microwaved frozen food that a literal child could plate up. She was terrible, the catering food was terrible and Perla should rightly so cringe to herself everytime she thinks about it
Laura creeped me out so much. She was *_way_* too emotionally attached to Perla, to the point where I can't help but wonder if Laura was romantically obsessed with her. Look at the way she frantically rubbed Perla's arm when she fired her, it's so creepy! Edit: of course Laura didn't actually fire Perla. Of course she didn't. 🤦🏼♀️ Her business deserved to fail.
She literally watched AND encouraged Perla to run her business into the ground one bland horrible dish at a time 😂…something had to be going on. And, I agree, she deserved to close; what a ridiculous decision.
lol running a catering business is much different then running a restaurant. one gives you prep time, with exact numbers of people, the other could have a random number of people asking for a random kinds of food. restaurants are much more hectic.
Despite the relax coating that customers enjoy and experience at a restaurant, this business (especially for the smaller ones) is incredibly stressful and demanding, literally nothing is easy or forgiving for anyone in this workplace.
maybe she should have just stuck with catering... not saying her catering food is good or bad... but its what made her money... its like what Kevin O'Leary said friends and family give you false encouragement "oh your food is good open a restaurant" and if you don't know what you're doing, you'll lose money and fail...
I'll give Lauren this: she knows how to cook (good dish with Ramsay version, Pearl sorry but not as impressed) and can run a kitchen ok (at least the episode seems to make her to be thus it's debatable if she can) Yet being a cook/chef and an owner? 2 different types of jobs that it's too much to do all at once! Especially as she doesn't take it as serious as it must be! Duh! Heck, not just this episode but Bazzimi (sp?) is a prefect example too (glad the lady leaves in the end and gets her dessert company going, my Mother is so good she got a magazine to post her creations, that I hope goes a lit further 😊)
I reckon she can given how many food she taste tested in the episode compared to the other owners and chefs in the many seasons of Kitchen Nightmares. Taste testing is essential when being a cook.
@@cekojuna6930 Don't recall Lauren the owner taste testing, if so not very much. Yet too bad she is a dear friend with Pearl, who imho is just in the wrong cooking job, she doesn't let her go (unlike what your told at the end of the episode) and thus Lauren killed the restaurant, not Pearl. It's pretty clear who to blame and who to not blame as much.
Yeah I'll eat plain microwave canned peas at home but I wouldn't even dream of serving anything like that at a restaurant, not if I wanted to make money anyways
I wouldn't hire her to run a lemonade stand, why would anyone hire her to run another restaurant is beyond me, of course that restaurant also closed. Then the poor grandmother, she must be rolling over in her grave, no Mexican grandmother would ever dream of serving people frozen food, that restaurant and catering food is as authentic as Taco Bell.
A lot of closures are location/rent based. For example, my wife's side of the family had a restaurant with high ratings and rave reviews, food cooked to order -- lots of chefs in the family so no problems with quality of food -- but closed within 3 years of opening because they couldn't afford the rent. At lunch time it was always packed but in the mornings and evenings it was a trickle of patrons. The location made it a great lunch stop but for whatever reason, perhaps lack of nearby residential housing and higher density of commercial buildings, hence the high lunch crowd, failed to draw in any significant breakfast or dinner crowd. Couple that with very high rent and the only things that survive in that location are chains.
@@RealityTVRescues Sad thing is that one of our cousins invested her entire life savings into the business -- when I say life savings, I mean a million dollar nest egg. And *poof* it's gone. It's insane to me and very disheartening. Not just brutal but absolutely unfair and scary!
If youre doing Mexican restaurant in CA it better be exceptional cause there is amazing Mexican food on every corner. Its the only thing about cali that i miss.
I remember her friend, who was a manager or something like that, answering Gordon Ramsay’s question what is wrong with this restaurant, she answered not enough customers. No s**t Sherlock! He’s asking you why isn’t there enough customers? Somebody can’t be that dumb!
"She's like family", I'm the daughter and granddaughter of six people collectively who could not cook, so in this instance I'm not sure that's a recommendation. Hire her to do something else if you're that sentimental.
Always thought this was a beautiful looking restaurant, although thanks to this video I now realise the location certainly wasn't great for business. I actually assumed that Laura was in some kind of relationship with Perla, as its almost the only way to explain the bizarre behaviour, but I guess we'll never know. I did feel sorry for Perla though, obviously way out of her depth and it felt a bit cruel seeing her ridiculed on television.
I think so too. It made NO sense whatsoever to have her as chef. She wasn’t even remotely qualified and continued sending out subpar dishes even amidst numerous complaints. Who does THAT as a sign of loyalty lol.
No offence mates but imho, her chef Pearl isn't a bad cook. It's just restaurants isn't her work but catering/buffets. Big difference as it seems those good at one could suck at the other as unfortunately Peral does. So in summary, while she is in the wrong business, compaired to other cook/chef idoits in Kitchen Nightmares, she not quite worth being to critical of. Just needs to be told: Madam your in the wrong job, go back to what you know please.
She's not a bad cook, but not good enough to be called "Chef". For goodness sake, she had her chance when Gordon put her up in a controlled environment and still FAILED. Like the video said, Perla is not cut out to the high stress environment and would much rather be back at catering.
@@AlexMaquet-b7h well she could have put more effort in and didn't, but I'm sure she has reasons as to why. That being said, I and many would have tried harder than she did. Yet her boss Lauren (whatever her name is) dish isn't much better to eh? It doesn't beat Ramsay hm?
@@jack-exzolt9858 I don't deny it mate. She is head chef in this restaurant but not good enough to be the chef/cook in a restaurant peroid. That is what I said mate, duh... Just saying, worst on the show? I don't think so as she is just person with the wrong job for her ok? Do you understand?
One things to have them on "baño Maria" for hours(which keeps them moist and hot), quite another I'd to make them, freeze them and reheat them. These are Chicanos, mate, not Mexicans.
@@arturodejesuscruzcasab9502 I don't know how this woman identifies, I'll leave that up to her, but anybody I've met who called themselves Chicano was totally politicized.
At some point... somebody must have made the food they were reheating. Who? It can't have been the chef -- she clearly has no idea what she's doing without a microwave! Where is the food coming from! lol
This is another restaurant where the owner fell in love with their no-good, emotionally manipulative chef. Just like ditzy Rishi, owner of Prohibition Grille. But here it’s Sapphic love that drove this potentially good business into the ground.
I just do not know where these people get the money? You always hear how banks have given them all this money and then they go bankrupt and open up another place.... How?
Typical. - She just used it as a PR boost. PR boosts can feel great... ... ...while they last. Also, she owes the chef an apology for putting her in that position. You don't take a cook and place them in a head chef role, that's boarderline sadistic.
"owes an apology for putting her in that position?" I don't think her employment there involved a blood oath or an indenture. Garlic Breast Perla could have walked away any time she wanted to.
You forgot to mention one of the male line cooks was kinda rude, telling perla to tell the helping chef to "f*ck off" I seriously wonder what happened to him
Catering is when you have groups with food to be prepared on the same day. Just imagine Jon Taffer's experts Jason Santos and Vic Vegas looking at the kitchen. Jon would embarrass Laura by bringing the frozen food to the front before waving this:🏳🏳🏳🏳🏳🏳. YUP!!! THE WHITE FLAG!!!!! IF THAT WAS JON ON THE PERLA ISSUE: IS EITHER HER FRIENDSHIP OF THE RESTAURANT? JON: ARE YOU HER BOSS OR HER FRIEND? LAURA: HER BOSS. JON: THEN ACT AS A BOSS. FIRE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR YOU DO NOT GET RESCUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not to question his credentials but I wouldn't expect Ramsay to know the first thing about Mexican food and he'd complain that it's too hot even if it was mild
Wedding DJs are not good in clubs and Club DJ's are not good in clubs. This place went back to a nightmare because of the owner and some tamale chick. She is 2-3 star owner or manager at best. She should stick to wedding food forever since she won't listen to anyone
At a wedding or any other catered event as a guest I eat the food, it's usually good but I'm a guest and not paying for it. At a restaurant I am paying and so will be more critical
If her food tasted medicore at the resturat and they were using the same catering style then how did her business ever take off. Both foods must have been mediocre..
