Kitchen Nightmares, Season 3

[After a disastrous dinner service, CeCe and Gordon are sitting on a bench outside the restaurant]

Gordon:
You all right? (CeCe is sobbing) No, come on.

(CeCe continues sobbing)

Gordon:
I can’t start to even attempt to help unless you come to terms with the problem, and that is the food.

CeCe:
It’s good when I cook!

Gordon:
Come on! This is not a game for me!

CeCe:
It’s not a fucking game for me; this is my life! It’s not a joke for me! Don’t start saying that; it’s not a joke! It’s not a joke for me. I care! If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t fucking be here, so stop saying I don’t care! Just stop, please.

Gordon:
I haven’t said that!

CeCe:
Yes, you did.

Gordon:
What I’m trying to tell you is that you have to come to terms, internally, that there is a huge problem and that is with the food.

CeCe:
(interview) Nobody wants to hear that anything that they do sucks. I don’t like to fail. Death would be better than failing.

Gordon:
It’s certainly not a sign of weakness to admit your failings. I’ve closed three restaurants but I also have a number of successful ones. One-thousand, six-hundred and fifty members...

CeCe:
I know who you are.

Gordon:
That’s—

CeCe:
And it’s— It’s— I—

Gordon:
A “jerk,” you told me earlier.

CeCe:
Well, you can be a jerk.

Gordon:
Stop acting like a petulant teenager! I’m not gonna stand there and be a doormat for you to take the piss out of me. Let’s get one thing right: you asked me here and I’m here to help, so let me in.

CeCe:
Okay, the food sucks. There, you happy?

Gordon:
There’s a problem with the way the food is prepared, there’s a problem with the way the food is ordered, there’s a problem with the way the food is not respected... I’m sorry, CeCe, but it’s just not good enough.

(CeCe sobs some more)