Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack has hit ROCK BOTTOM.

It's sounds SO GOOD: an intimate 40-seater a stone's throw from Brighton's sea front with loads of hungry locals and a steady stream of tourists. Big soul momma, owner Charita Jones produces a menu of irresistibly unique classics from the Deep South.

Should be a surefire MONEYSPINNER, right?

Wrong... the shack is in a hole... a very deep FINANCIAL HOLE.

Despite three and a half years of hard graft it's a SPLITTING HEADACHE of a cafe.

The food's hard to fault but the punters are nowhere to be seen, Head Chef Brian and a rag-tag collection of part-timers are taking the mickey - and despite working a seven-day week Charita's got an empty restaurant and owes the bank £65,000. If ever there was a case of too many cooks, this is it. Charita's a natural, but she's never made a profit on the restaurant and is now facing financial disaster.

It's time to get SERIOUS... else the Soul Food Shack is finished.

Can Gordon successfully shut her out o