<P> Menus may be customized for a specific dinner service, such as ethnic - themed dishes or plates that resulted from the earlier challenge . One service per season allows for the teams to develop their own menus, which are reviewed by Ramsay for quality and presentation beforehand . Dinner services may include additional challenges . A chef from each team may be asked to serve a table - side meal for their team, serve celebrities sitting at the kitchen's chef's table, or act as a server for the evening taking and fulfilling orders . After the chefs are on a single black team, Ramsay will use one dinner service to ask each chef to run the pass to test their quality control, including deliberate mistakes made by the sous chefs or Ramsay himself . </P> <P> During a service, Ramsay demands that all orders for each course for a table go out together, and will send back entire orders if one item is improperly prepared, such as being over - or undercooked or not seasoned correctly . While the chefs are in two teams, Ramsay is assisted by two trusted sous - chefs, each monitoring one of the kitchens, demanding the same standards and alerting Ramsay to any issues . Ramsay's goal is to complete every dinner service, but exceptionally poor kitchen performance by one or both teams will cause him to close one (or both sides) of the kitchen early and send the team (s) back to the dorms . Ramsay may also evict individual chefs from the kitchen based on repeated poor performances during a service, and on rare occasions, may eliminate a chef on the spot . </P> <P> Once the dinner service is complete, Ramsay determines which team is the losing team and directs them to select two chefs from their team as nominees for elimination . Occasionally, Ramsay declares that both teams have lost, or requests a different number of chefs to be nominated for elimination . In some cases, Ramsay has named both teams winners, but still requires both teams to nominate someone for elimination . This is a group consensus, but Ramsay may occasionally name a chef "best of the worst" on their team and instruct them to choose the nominees . Ramsay has also on some occasions declared that nobody would be sent home, but those cases are generally followed by a double - elimination or occur after a spot elimination where Ramsay has sent a contestant home immediately due to malfeasance . </P> <P> Ramsay reassembles the teams in the dining hall and hears out the nominations from the losing team (s). Ramsay may also nominate other chefs for elimination if he believes it appropriate . After giving these nominees the chance to defend themselves, Ramsay selects one to hand over their jacket and "leave Hell's Kitchen ." On rarer occasions, Ramsay can overrule nominations or even eliminate a chef who has not been nominated, even a chef on a winning team . </P>

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