La Galleria 33 managed to stay open for six years after Gordon Ramsay’s visits, which makes it a real success story for the show.
Business-rescue shows may be very entertaining to watch, but the businesses do not always turn out successful once the cameras stop rolling.
So while La Galleria 33 did eventually end up closing down after its Kitchen Nightmares makeover, this only happened many years later.
The success rate of business-rescue shows
There are few things more heartwarming than watching an industry expert lend their advice to struggling business owners who have run out of ideas to keep their businesses afloat.
But although it is entertaining to watch these businesses being completely transformed within just a matter of days, the final product is not always as successful as these shows make them seem.
And while some business manage to take the publicity that they have earned and run with it, other businesses are just too far gone by the time this help arrives. Thus, they end up closing their doors before their episodes even make it to air.
Why La Galleria 33 is one of Kitchen Nightmares’s biggest success stories
Kitchen Nightmares, which stars Gordon Ramsay, is no different. During Kitchen Nightmares’s first seven seasons, Ramsay visited and attempted to rescue 77 struggling restaurants.
But now, almost a decade after the seventh’s season final episode aired, 65 of these restaurants have closed down.
So while it may seem counterintuitive to call a restaurant which closed down without any notice in 2018 a success story, La Galleria 33 goes down in history as one of only a few restaurants which remained operational for years (six years, to be exact) after Ramsay stopped by for his first visit.
By the time that Ramsay made his way to Boston to visit La Galleria 33 and its owners Lisa, Cerundolo and Rita Moran again, for the “Revisited No.9” episode (which aired in 2014) the restaurant was doing so well, that the sisters had paid off all their debt and had caught up on their mortgage.
Moreover, by the time that the restaurant closed its doors in 2018, La Galleria 33 had maintained an above-average 3.5 out of 5 score on Yelp.
This means that even though La Galleria 33 closed down, Lisa and Rita were in a much better place than they were in when Ramsay first arrived.
Is Lisa and Rita’s parents’ restaurant still open?
Avid Kitchen Nightmares fans may remember that Lisa and Rita had not been the first members of their family to open a restaurant and their parents actually owned another Italian restaurant called L’Osteria, which was located right down the street from theirs.
The good news is that L’Osteria is still open today, and with a 4 out of 5 rating on TripAdvisor, the restaurant still seems to be doing extremely well.
Although, based on what has been posted to the L’Osteria Facebook page recently, it does not seem like Lisa or Rita went back to working at this restaurant after La Galleria 33 closed down.
What happened to Lisa and Rita after La Galleria 33 closed down?
Unfortunately, Lisa and Rita never left so much as a parting message when La Galleria 33 closed down.
And although these hilarious sisters have now become real favorites among Kitchen Nightmares fans, they have pretty much dropped off the map since the restaurant closed down in 2018.
Lisa has a private Instagram account, which does not really provide any information except for the fact that she seemed to be fairly happy at the time that she updated her profile picture.
Besides that, there has not been any real update on these sisters since back in 2018 when La Galleria 33 was still doing business.
What happened to the rest of the La Galleria 33 staff after this Kitchen Nightmares episode?
La Galleria 33 remains one of the most popular Kitchen Nightmares episodes to this day, not only because of Lisa and Rita’s endearing personalities, but also because of the rest of the restaurant’s intriguing staff.
Even Ramsay struggled to process his mixed emotions about the relative chaos of a restaurant filled with Doug the ex-husband, Pat with his identity-crises and Sara, the server who seemingly tried to sabotage Ramsay’s first meal.
At the end of the episode, he simply said, “This has been one of the most unusual yet enjoyable Kitchen Nightmares I’ve ever done”.
And although Sara did leave La Galleria 33 before Ramsay returned in the “Revisited No.9” episode, some Yelp reviews and various blog posts about the restaurant reveal that both Pat and Doug remained at the restaurant until it closed down in 2018.
