Robert Irvine may be best known to Food Network audiences as the guy dispensing tough love to struggling restaurants on the hit series "Restaurant: Impossible," but his new Sunday series, "Restaurant Express," finds the chef exploring the flip side of that: searching for the best candidate to help launch and run a new eatery in a Las Vegas resort.
The series started out with nine aspiring restaurateurs who boarded Irvine's huge bus for a road trip across the West that tests not only their culinary skills but also their personal strengths and business acumen.
"These people are mothers, military people and chefs, and not one of them has an advantage over the others," Irvine tells Zap2it. "There are so many different tests and competition pieces that you have to be good at everything to be that person at the end. It's not like 'Food Network Star' and 'Chopped' and other programs like that.
The series started out with nine aspiring restaurateurs who boarded Irvine's huge bus for a road trip across the West that tests not only their culinary skills but also their personal strengths and business acumen.
"These people are mothers, military people and chefs, and not one of them has an advantage over the others," Irvine tells Zap2it. "There are so many different tests and competition pieces that you have to be good at everything to be that person at the end. It's not like 'Food Network Star' and 'Chopped' and other programs like that.
- 11/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Having come to the aid of 89 ailing eateries on his long-running Food Network hit Restaurant Impossible, Robert Irvine knows a thing or two about what makes a dining establishment thrive. For his newest series, Restaurant Express, Irvine’s hitting the road with nine aspiring restaurateurs to see if they do, too — and to teach them everything he knows in the process. Over the course of seven hourlong episodes, Irvine and his charges (who represent an intriguing mix of culinary backgrounds) travel the West Coast in the Restaurant Express — a luxury coach that would make rock bands green with […]
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- 11/3/2013
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
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