It wasn’t until the third season that Hell’s Kitchen actually awarded the prize to Rock Harper that it had announced all season. After her contract terminated, she left and became Sous Chef on Hell’s Kitchen during Season 6. Instead, she signed a one year contract to be Senior Chef at Terra Rossa (an existing restaurant) in Las Vegas. The second season winner, Heather West, was promised a newly built restaurant in Las Vegas in which she would have an investment stake and help design it. He first accepted and then later declined the trip. Instead, he was awarded kitchen equipment and a trip to the UK to study under Ramsay. The first season winner, Michael Wray, was to win his own restaurant, but the show didn’t deliver on that award.
For example, in the first two seasons of Hell’s Kitchen, the winners didn’t actually win what the show promised during the seasons. For those of you who like Reality TV shows like Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen, realize there is even more reality than what you see on the tube.
