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It is not uncommon for people who have been relatively successful, enjoy cooking and have an interest in food to plunge their life savings into a restaurant.
The behaviour exhibited by the arseholes in that tv show is an extreme version of the behaviour that many of these people will resort to. This is because they have a fundamental lack of understanding of how the restaurant trade works, and when their dream goes wrong they are confronted with the very real possibility of losing their nest-egg.
I have worked in places similar but not as extreme as that, sadly the owners often employ someone who is capable of turning things around but will never listen to them as they have their heads buried too far in the sand.