Gordon Ramsay in Reading: Newest episode of his new show features local breakfast joint | Reading Area

READING, Pa. – Gordon Ramsey’s Secret Service, the famous chef’s newest show, featured a Berks County restaurant Thursday evening.

“It’s a big moment for our region. It puts us on a national stage,” says Cammie Harris, executive director, the Reading Film Office.

The Marvel Ranch in downtown Reading is the latest restaurant featured on Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service on FOX.

“It’s a major production, so it gives us validation, basically in the industry,” Harris says.

Ramsay is known for his shows like Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen.

He and a film crew visited Reading earlier this year and stopped at the breakfast joint.

Reading Film Office Executive Director Cammie Harris says film and TV shows have a major economic impact on communities where they shoot.

“I think the statistics are 60% of a film’s budget is spent where they’re shot,” Harris says. “It’s, you know, for catering, it’s for hotels, it’s for crew and talent, workforce development, all of those things.”

Harris says in recent years there’s been a spike in films and productions in the area, with at least 30 in the past year.

“That’s not all, you know, major films, they’re documentaries, shorts, features, a combination of different films, but that you know that number definitely grew,” Harris says.

She says the film office travels, spreading the word that Reading is ready for lights, camera, action.

“I think the more we do that, the more exposure that we, you know, get in these different places, the more films, the bigger films will get here in the area,” Harris says.