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Each episode will have four chefs who will compete in a 'high-stakes game of chance that requires skill, speed and adaptability.' They need to 'out-smart their competition during three casino-themed cooking challeneges - slots, poker, and roulette - for a chance to win the $30,00 jackpot.' A competitor will be eliminated after each challenge.
The description of an episode from the press release says:
"In each episode, the competing chefs must hold their own as they navigate through three grueling rounds of the casino-style, culinary competition. Round one features the Kitchen Casino Slot Machine. The chefs take a spin and reveal three categories – cuisine, ingredient and theme – which must inspire their dish for the 30 minute round. In round two, remaining three contestants have 40 minutes to prepare a dish using the same assigned protein from the previous round – but with a game changing twist. During this round the kitchen stations spin like a roulette wheel leaving the chefs in front of a new station to continue cooking. The wheel turns unexpectedly and the chefs are judged by the dish that ends up in front of them at the end of the round. The final round is a game of Chef Poker. The remaining two contestants try their hand at incorporating an ingredient into their dish depending on the card they are dealt. Will they hold their hand or take a gamble? Their decision could make or break their dish and their chance at winning the jackpot."
The full press release about the show is below:
FOOD NETWORK UPS THE ANTE IN NEW SERIES KITCHEN CASINO HOSTED BY BILL RANCIC
Premieres Monday, April 7th at 9pm ET/PT on Food Network
NEW YORK – March 3, 2014 / PRNewswire / — Food Network’s new competition series Kitchen Casino hosted by Bill Rancic and premiering on Monday, April 7th at 9pm ET/PT brings together four talented chefs in a high-stakes game of chance that requires skill, speed and adaptability. In each episode, four competitors would be wise to keep one eye on the ticking clock while they attempt to out-cook and out-smart their competition during three casino-themed cooking challenges – slots, poker and roulette – for a chance to win the $30,000 jackpot. The chefs must be at the top of their game throughout the three rounds to handle whatever Lady Luck deals them, and they must double-down on their skills or risk being 86’d. Each episode features a panel of rotating judges including Michael Chernow, Madison Cowan, Danyelle Freedman, Gavin Kaysen, Aliya Leekong and Kristin Sollenne.
“These competing chefs need strong culinary talents and cunning strategy to win these high-stakes challenges, making Kitchen Casino exhilarating to watch,” said Bob Tuschman, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Food Network. “On Kitchen Casino anything can happen when amazing chefs roll the dice.”
In each episode, the competing chefs must hold their own as they navigate through three grueling rounds of the casino-style, culinary competition. Round one features the Kitchen Casino Slot Machine. The chefs take a spin and reveal three categories – cuisine, ingredient and theme – which must inspire their dish for the 30 minute round. In round two, remaining three contestants have 40 minutes to prepare a dish using the same assigned protein from the previous round – but with a game changing twist. During this round the kitchen stations spin like a roulette wheel leaving the chefs in front of a new station to continue cooking. The wheel turns unexpectedly and the chefs are judged by the dish that ends up in front of them at the end of the round. The final round is a game of Chef Poker. The remaining two contestants try their hand at incorporating an ingredient into their dish depending on the card they are dealt. Will they hold their hand or take a gamble? Their decision could make or break their dish and their chance at winning the jackpot.
Bill Rancic originally burst onto the public scene as the first-ever winner of NBC’s The Apprentice. Ten years later, this successful entrepreneur wears many hats as a television producer, best-selling author, television personality and restaurateur of the popular restaurant RPM-Italian chain. Rancic is co-executive producer and star with his wife Giuliana Rancic on their reality show, Guiliana & Bill. He also co-hosts the successful nationally syndicated television show, America Now, which recently celebrated its 500th episode and is currently in its fourth season. Rancic is the author of New York Times bestsellers You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life and Beyond The Lemonade Stand. Rancic and wife Giuliana co-authored the best-seller I Do…Now What?, in which the couple share their secrets to everlasting love and understanding.
Visit FoodNetwork.com/KitchenCasino for behind-the-scenes photos, interviews and more insider coverage.
Kitchen Casino is produced by Jane Street Productions.
# # #FOOD NETWORK (www.foodnetwork.com) is a unique lifestyle network, website and magazine that connects viewers to the power and joy of food. The network strives to be viewers' best friend in food and is committed to leading by teaching, inspiring, empowering and entertaining through its talent and expertise. Food Network is distributed to more than 100 million U.S. households and averages more than 9.9 million unique web users monthly. Since launching in 2009, Food Network Magazine's rate base has grown tenfold and is now the second largest monthly magazine on the newsstand, with over 11.6 million readers. Headquartered in New York, Food Network has a growing international presence with programming in more than 150 countries, including 24-hour networks in the United Kingdom, Asia, and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), which also owns and operates Cooking Channel (www.cookingchanneltv.com), HGTV (www.hgtv.com), DIY Network (www.diynetwork.com), Travel Channel (www.travelchannel.com) and Great American Country (www.gactv.com), is the manager and general partner.
(Multivu)
On Directv, Foodnetwork is channel 231, Gameshow network is 233. Seems like there's a leak somewhere.
ReplyDeleteSounds like another crummy show, but I dunno, with Madison Cowan in evidence, I just might have to watch, although he deserves better.
ReplyDeleteI like cooking competition shows, but this one doesn't even make any sense.
ReplyDeleteHilarious and ironic, a food show hosted by Bill Rancic, whose wife cannot even boil water. And, yes, a clone of Chopped! Please come up with something original.
ReplyDeleteSeems like the only thing they can come up with are clones of Chopped, some crappy fake reality show or another DDD lookalike.
ReplyDeleteIt's closed and for horribly failing their health inspections (two locations). This pisses me off. All of that hard work and the owner goes back to the same lazy ways. The inspections noted, unclean work areas, rodent droppings and cockroaches, dead and alive.
ReplyDeleteSome people you just can't reach, but I really wish that this effort had gone somewhere else. I mean, the guys place was infested and dirty to begin with, you really believe that he wasn't the problem there?
Madison is the ONLY reason I might watch this
ReplyDeleteI think Giuliana would be afraid of boiled water because of its high calorie count.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that here you have a chef who is willing to help others to improve their restaurant business which are all dying. Success and failures of each restaurants will, in the end rest on the owners' shoul
ReplyDeleteders. Robert can only help them so much. it will only work provided if the owners are willing to change in how they do things.
Leave the girl alone. Who cares about her spelling. Stop being ARROGANT! Does it make you feel important to point out someone you don't even know spelling ERRORS. Stay classy Leslie!
ReplyDeleteu are such a perfect esxample of someone who falls for what they do. do u kno how uch money the food network makes off each episode ebven after spending all that money for these restaraunts? dude i work in the restaraunt business and its not that glam. and also they have so many ways to make things look all happy and great when really most of these restaraunts dont stay that great after the cameras r gone. even 20000k is nothing for food network seriously
ReplyDeletewhat is the real cost to refurbish the restaurants, labor materials, equipment?
ReplyDeleteHahaha!!! Yeah, "We went back after the RI show aired and it just wasn't the same. We really liked having the roaches crawl all over our table; they were just so cute! Now we have to look around to find them. I don't know why Irvine insisted on changing this; I'm sure it because all he cares about is the TV show."
ReplyDeleteOh, that changes everything! I didn't know! So we should like the roaches! We should welcome them then!
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