After 3 seasons on the Food Network, it appears that Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell has been cancelled. A fan asked Anne on Twitter, "When will new episodes of Chef Wanted come on???" Anne responded to this question with, "sadly there will be not be any new episodes of chef wanted"Ratings for the third season of Chef Wanted were down significantly from previous seasons, with an episode later in the season getting only 597,000 viewers (10/10/13 episode). To put that in perspective, most of the prime time shows on the Food Network get over 1 million total viewers, and the shows the Food Network seems to renew or bring back for more seasons tend to be able to draw around 1.5+ million viewers.
Viewers may have grown tired of the same old drama every episode where 100's of tickets print out at the same time, followed by Anne Burrell screaming at the chefs to pick it up. The chef's hit a snag during dinner service, but some how recover and pull it off after some inspirational words by Anne.
Perhaps the other reason why people stopped tuning in was because none of the winning chefs actually took the job that they won. According to the Chef Wanted Updates compiled here, only 14 of 32 winning chefs actually accepted the job that they won. Of those 14, two chefs actually were working for the restaurant on the show before the episode was even filmed (Osteria Del Circo and David Burke Fromagerie).
The reason many chefs stated for not taking the job is that they didn't want to relocate to take the position. I'm not sure why they would apply for a job they weren't willing to relocate for, but the casting for the show should have taken this into consideration. Also, the prize of winning an episode was a chef position at a restaurant. There was no mention of a guaranteed salary or extra bonus thrown in for winning an episode, so it was probably up to the restaurant to offer a competitive salary to entice a chef to move. This is probably another reason why the success rate of finding a chef was less than 50%.
The Food Network had a show where they weren't responsible for the prize, while the restaurants on the show got free publicity and had the Food Network find capable applicants for a job. Seemed like a win-win situation, but the ratings probably weren't good enough to continue producing it.