What's in Your Walk-In?

My guilty pleasure is watching the lineup of shows featuring restaurants or bars gone bad. "Kitchen Nightmares," "Restaurant Impossible" and "Bar Rescue" are my favorites. I use our DVR to record the shows and then watch an episode when there is down time later in the evening.

Regardless of the show, the premise is usually the same: a restaurant/bar is having financial troubles. The owner can't understand why they don't have more customers, because they feel the food is perfect and there must be something wrong with people in the area. The host of the show comes in, asks a number of questions and samples the menu. Almost always, the food is atrocious, the staff in disarray and the restaurant itself is dated or dirty. Investigating the food further, our host decides to check out the walk-in cooler.