Article: Nightmare on Ramsay Street; GORDON RAMSAY roasts restaurant staff and makes mincemeat of their employers in Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. As a new batch of failing restaurateurs get ready for some tough love, MARY GREENE finds out how his previous victims have fared.

Byline: MARY GREENE

This time last year, Momma Cherri was in tears. She was within a catfish's whisker of losing her soul food restaurant in Brighton, serving her own momma's down-home cooking, but which hadn't made her a penny since it was opened. Momma Cherri was desperate, so desperate she declared herself a Kitchen Nightmare. If Gordon Ramsay liked her Aunt Mae's meatloaf and her Southern fried chicken, maybe he could turn her fortunes around.

One year on and it is a chill February midweek lunchtime. It's low season, when many a restaurateur feels the urge to drown himself in his stockpot. But Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack is a-buzzin'. I'm one of ...

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