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Drop the Clutch from First to Third
s02e08 · 2022-05-26 · 18:00
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Chef Boot Camp, takes a deep dive into one of the most critical and essential elements of restaurants everywhere – the chefs running the kitchen. The success of a restaurant starts and ends with the food they serve and trouble in the kitchen can jeopardize everything. Enter Cliff Crooks, Culinary Director of a global restaurant brand whose job entails making sure the entire enterprise runs smoothly, including hiring and firing the chefs for each kitchen. Now Cliff is taking his decades of expertise and embarking on a new mission to help struggling chefs from restaurants across the country prove that they deserve to keep running their kitchens. Nominated by their respective restaurant owners, each episode Cliff will put a trio of underperforming chefs through a grueling series of challenges to test their real-world culinary skills and fitness for the role. With their jobs on the line, these chefs will attempt to not only survive but thrive in Chef Boot Camp and prove to their owners they have the talent and passion it takes to succeed.
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6 this season · 14 totals01e01 Have a Little Faith 2021-04-09 02:00
Have a Little Faith
A chef jeopardizes a local favorite spot in Port Jefferson, N.Y.; a chef refuses to change the menu at a seafood restaurant in New Haven, Conn.; a daughter and head chef with no drive for her mom's dream in East Meadow, N.Y.
s01e02 Sloppy, Snarky and Silent 2021-04-16 02:00
Sloppy, Snarky and Silent
Chef Cliff Crooks works with a timid chef in Kittery, Maine, whose boss questions his ability to lead, a sloppy and unskilled chef in Horseheads, N.Y., and a chef with an attitude problem in Albany, N.Y.
s01e03 Three Dreams 2021-04-23 02:00
Three Dreams
Chef Cliff Crooks connects with a chef in Connecticut who needs to branch out from wings and burgers, a chef in need of a confidence boost in Long Beach, N.Y., and a restaurant owner suffering from a lack of cooking and restaurant experience.
s01e04 I Will Be Great... Tomorrow 2021-04-30 02:00
I Will Be Great... Tomorrow
The chef and co-owner of a soul food restaurant in Albany, N.Y., needs to branch out from her mom's recipes and two chefs need chef Cliff's help finding their passion for food again.
s01e05 Show Me the Intensity 2021-05-07 02:00
Show Me the Intensity
Chef Cliff Crooks mentors a 23-year-old head chef with too much attitude at her family's restaurant, an owner who needs to be more assertive and a former hotel owner who sold the business but stayed on to run the kitchen.
s01e06 The Bottom Line 2021-05-14 02:00
The Bottom Line
Chef Cliff Crooks helps a first-time head chef in Portland, Maine, understand budgeting; an inexperienced chef at a family restaurant in Scranton, Pa.; a chef in Syracuse, N.Y., whose care eats up time and profits.