Capri

What happened after

Italian restaurant closed in 2019, despite an initial 20% sales bump post-episode (May 2011).

Closure date on record: 2019

What happened on the show

Identical twins Jim and Jeff had bought Capri in Eagle Rock and run it with matching laziness, closed for lunch and shut two extra days a week, the dining room dirty and stuck in the past. Ramsay was amused by how alike they looked and unamused by everything else, especially once he discovered gum stuck under literally every table. The food was frozen and joyless: a nasty meatball sandwich made with bought meatballs, a strange-smelling chicken scarpariello that proved frozen, and a dreadful colossal pizza. When Jim defrosted chicken directly in the steam table, Ramsay called it a lethal mistake and ordered all chicken pulled for the night, which Jim botched by announcing it loudly to the whole room. Told he could have handled it better, Jim shot back that Ramsay could blow it out his ass, earning the reply asking whether his diaper needed changing. Jeff, overwhelmed, broke down in tears feeling like a failure.

After the cameras left

Capri actually got a lift from the episode, with sales reportedly up twenty percent afterward, and it hung on longer than most, but the Eagle Rock restaurant at 4604 Eagle Rock Boulevard finally closed in 2019. Two lazy twins who needed Ramsay to shame them into cleaning their own kitchen were always going to struggle to keep standards up once the pressure was off, and eight years later the doors shut for good.