A few months ago the Irvine show featured a restaurant that is owned by a family in my home town, with whom I grew up. They had a lot of problems. the older dad was dying of cancer; my friend (his middle son) left the business, and the youngest boy was kind of forced into running it with his aging mother.

The kitchen was so bad that the chef and the owner had to use a commercial kitchen of a vendor to instruct the restaurant's chef. It turned out okay, but the dad died soon after the grand reopening.

This is a restaurant that my family uses occasionally for funeral receptions.