But the task of saving Sushi Ko, the eatery they moved from Bel Air to The Lakes shopping center in Thousand Oaks in 2005 and closed last summer, probably was too big even for the famous chef and his restaurant-makeover TV show, “Kitchen Nightmares,” to tackle, said Lisa Hatae.

“At that point we had nothing to lose; we already were going to the landlord and asking for relief,” Hatae said of opening the restaurant’s doors to Ramsay and a TV crew near the end of May 2009.

“We just thought of it a little too late,” she added with a laugh.

The results — some of them, anyway — will be seen when the Sushi Ko episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” makes its rescheduled, American-TV debut at 9 p.m. today on FOX.

Thanks to a social media acquaintance who lives in England, Hatae said that she, husband Akira Hatae and their children — Samson, 23, Hana, 21 and Summer, 12 — already have seen snippets of the episode as it appeared in the United Kingdom, where both Ramsay and the “Kitchen Nightmares” concept were born.

“I’m sure it’s going to be different when it airs here, but at least we’re prepared,” Hatae said, laughing again. “It shows all the negative things we assumed it was going to show.”