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Big Restaurant Bet

  • Watchlist
  • 2022-2022
  • 1 Season
  • Food Network
  • Reality
  • Watchlist

Food Network star, acclaimed chef, and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian is looking to invest $250,000 of his resources for the next rising star in the restaurant world. Geoffrey presents eight talented chefs with the opportunity to take the next step in their culinary career with challenges to determine who has what it takes to run their first restaurant. When it comes to developing and operating a successful restaurant, there is no one with more knowledge than Geoffrey, and he is putting his reputation on the line to lift up a new generation of chefs competing to make their restaurant vision come true.

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Geoffrey Zakarian
Self
Margaret Zakarian
Self
Eric Kim Haugen
Self

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

You Can't Phone In A Chicken!

Tue, Apr 5, 2022

The promising chefs are invited to Geoffrey's home base in seaside Florida as they take on their first test: create a simple, one-bite dish that best showcases who they are and what their restaurant concept is.

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