Joseph Cerniglia, owner of Campania in Fair Lawn, took a death plunge into the Hudson River three years after chef Gordon Ramsay excoriated him on his reality show "Kitchen Nightmares." When Campania was featured on Ramsay's restaurant-makeover show in 2007, he blasted Cerniglia's bland food and bad financial decisions. "Your business is about to f--king swim down the Hudson," Ramsay yelled. During the show, Cerniglia noted that the once-popular restaurant had fallen into desperate straits.
"I'm financially in trouble -- the debt of the restaurant alone is overwhelming. My personal debt -- wife, kids mortgage -- that's a lot of debt," he moaned on the show. "I owe my purveyors about $80,000 right now in cold, hard cash . . . I can't see us going on another year." Recent patrons state that Campania seemed to be thriving.
(sources: NY Daily News and NY Post)
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