First look: Kitchen Nightmares Australia dishes out tough love

Award-winning chef and My Kitchen Rules alumni Colin Fassnidge has been appointed the head chef of Channel Seven's new program Kitchen Nightmares Australia. Each week, Fassnidge serves up tough love to owners of struggling hospitality businesses in a bid to transform their restaurants and turn their lives and livelihoods around.

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With a blend of practical insights and honest feedback, conflicts are inevitable as business owners and Fassnidge explore where the kitchens have gone wrong in their business plans so far.

Providing a delicious mix of tension, conflict and advice, Fassnidge’s tough love, and outspoken and blunt honesty give way to teamwork as Fassnidge provides owners and staff with industry secrets to running a profitable restaurant.

Discussing why now is the perfect time for Kitchen Nightmares Australia, Fassnidge said: “Restaurants across Australia have been hit hard over the past couple of years and livelihoods are on the line.

“I’ve learnt a fair bit in the restaurant game over the last 28 years and I can’t wait to help out a bunch of businesses with plenty of advice and a healthy dose of honesty.”

The Dublin-born chef is a well-known face on Australian screens, having previously appeared on SBS’s The Cook Up with Adam Liaw and perhaps his most notable role as a judge on Channel Seven’s My Kitchen Rules. Fassnidge has trained under renowned chef Raymond Blanc, and has held the role of executive chef of the two-hatted restaurant The Four in Hand Dining Room in Paddington in Sydney. Fassnidge is also the owner of hatted restaurant 4Fourteen in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

Produced by Eureka Productions for Seven Network, Kitchen Nightmares Australia is based on the popular global format of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Beginning in the UK and starring Gordon Ramsay as the host, the original format is distributed by All3Media International.