Watching the Profit

I've seen every episode. I love this show.

Awesome show, new season starts Oct 14

Agreed. The trailer company where the exes still co-owned and ran it was a trainwreck from the start. He had been there for 4 months before asking to see financial statements, which I think it utter bs. I did not think this show would resort to those sorts of tricks.

Also, he was way off on his understanding of the toy business, and he basically renovated that company's building and bought them new equipment and walked away with nothing to show for it.

I just find both scenarios hard to believe.

This is one of my favorite shows.

I want to see a new reality show that consists of status updates on businesses that have been rescued by other reality shows.

How many restaurants have closed within a year of Gordon Ramsey strolling in to cuss everyone out and trash their menus?

How many of the Profit's businesses are making a profit?

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I want to see a new reality show that consists of status updates on businesses that have been rescued by other reality shows.

How many restaurants have closed within a year of Gordon Ramsey strolling in to cuss everyone out and trash their menus?

How many of the Profit's businesses are making a profit?

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I have two points to make here regarding this:

1. These shows provide updates within the show on later episodes. On Kitchen Nightmares, of which I have seen nearly every episode, they "re-visit" a number of old restaurants once or twice a season. Multiple times the restaurant is closed when Ramsay returns. The Profit also provides an update on some businesses that he actually invests in, such as the thriving success of Auto King.

2. Both guys are going into failing businesses, with the issue most often being a terrible owner that has no business owning a restaurant or should have retired a long time ago. Both Marcus and Gordon try to work on the owner's management ability and attitude, Ramsay more-so than Marcus, while also improving processes. But they only have a short time with these guys and it is difficult to completely change someone in that short of a time. Marcus walks away if he sees the person cannot change or cannot be worked around. Ramsay does his best, but the owners nearly always revert back to their old ways and attitude that brought they companies to the brink of failure. As a result, Ramsay's success rate is only 20% in terms of the restaurant still being around a year later or so, but that is not bad at all considering 100% of the companies would fail without his consultation.