Amy’s Baking Company from Kitchen Nightmares has since closed, with Amy Bouzaglo planning on being a content creator and online confectionery seller.
Kitchen Nightmares was one of the original culinary-oriented reality show formats created by Gordon Ramsay. First premiering in 2007, the show would go on to have seven seasons filled with memorable episodes.
However, throughout the seven seasons, it can be argued that the most memorable episode is Amy’s Baking Company.
The bakery was run by married couple, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo. They first featured in season six and returned in season seven’s premiere episode. The bakery has since closed down, but Amy Bouzaglo has since capitalised on her reality television fame.
What was Kitchen Nightmares?
Kitchen Nightmares first premiered in September 2007 on the FOX Network. Gordon Ramsay hosted and executively produced the reality show which focused on restaurateurs rather than aspiring chefs, like his original debut reality show’s format, Hell’s Kitchen.
The premise of the show was, “Gordon Ramsay visits struggling restaurants across America and spends one week trying to help them become successful.”
The premise of the show was to help turn around failing restaurants, but after the show’s dismal success rate, it came to an end abruptly during the seventh season, which was a decision made by Ramsay.
Kitchen Nightmares: What happened to Amy’s Baking Company?
Amy’s Baking Company was season six’s final episode. The episode is rated the best episode on IMDb, according to viewer approval scores with a total score of 9.2 out of 10.
The episode featured married couple and business partners, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo. The couple went down as one of the most delusional couples to have graced reality television.
They on Ramsay and his show to profile their restaurant and to confirm the quality of their confectioneries, rather than fix the problem – which was Amy and her husband’s enabling of his wife’s behaviour.
Despite Ramsay’s intervention, the couple was not receptive to constructive criticism, which resulted in Ramsay walking away from the company.
He foreshadowed the company’s closure, which happened two years later, in 2015, due to alleged problems with the landlord.
What happened to Amy and Samy Bouzaglo after Kitchen Nightmares?
Following their appearance on Kitchen Nightmares, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo had a tumultuous time with their business.
First, prior to the indefinite closure of their restaurant, they had temporarily closed down and then briefly reopened again. This is because the business continued to receive negative feedback and reviews on social media following its reopening.
Moreover, the couple’s past misdeeds, one of which included Amy’s criminal conviction for social security fraud to obtain credit, were made public.
Diversifying, the couple went on to sell merchandise with catchphrases from their appearance on the show. Their last reality show stint was a feature on the Dr. Phil show, where he attempted to have the couple face reality, but to no avail.
What are Amy and Samy Bouzaglo doing now?
Following the closure of Amy’s Baking Company in 2015, the couple is believed to have moved to Tel Aviv, Israel.
At the time of the closure of the restaurant, Samy affirmed that they were working on multiple new projects. Since then, Samy has kept a low profile.
Amy on the other hand, has capitalised on her reality show stardom as she has since become a content creator, selling her homemade confectionaries on her Instagram page.
Reviews and comments are positive on her page, with some viewers only recently discovering her episode from Kitchen Nightmares.
Why was Kitchen Nightmares cancelled?
Kitchen Nightmares ended abruptly during season seven in 2014. The season had a total of 10 episodes as opposed to the 15 from the previous two seasons.
The decision to end the show was at Ramsay’s request, as he grew aggravated by the continuous backlash about the show’s poor success rate with most of the restaurants closing just months after the show had profiled them.
Ramsay’s decision was rash and he has since confirmed that he regrets the decision to end the show, but it seems that Kitchen Nightmares will never return with new episodes.
Final thoughts
Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares aimed to help failing restaurants in and around America make a turnaround.
The show turned to Ramsay to manage the interpersonal conflicts of the restaurateurs, as most were family-owned businesses, or alternatively, to manage the relationship between restaurateurs and their staff.
While this provided ample drama, what it meant was that a week was not enough to resolve matters.
This was especially clear with the episode Amy’s Baking Company, which introduced reality television’s “delusional couple” Amy and Samy Bouzaglo. Their business closed in 2015 after appearing on Kitchen Nightmares in 2014.