- Previously--
You'll all be creating your very own wine brand.
I've designed this challenge to test their branding
And pitching skills.
- We're about to give a huge presentation.
We're waiting to find out if sydney's ok.
- Not even concerned about how she's doing.
Don't talk to me anymore.
- The branding and the marketing are off point.
The person I will not be investing in is jake.
We're done.
Tonight I want you to run a delivery-only restaurant.
I'm going to be testing your time management,
Ability to advertise, and above all,
Your quality control.
[bright chime]
- Oh, we got an order.
Nobody really knows what's going on.
- I don't know where your head is at the moment,
But it's not in the game.
- Mrbeast is the guy in social media.
- This guy had tears in his eyes.
I'm looking to invest a quarter-million dollars
Into one of these contestants.
- If you're not good at what you claim to be the best at,
What are you doing here?
- [bleep].
[suspenseful music]
- A new week, and a new challenge
Awaits my ten remaining entrepreneurs.
♪ ♪
I've asked them to meet me here, downtown los angeles.
These buildings all around us are
Filled with very busy workers.
Come lunchtime tomorrow, these workers
Will become hungry customers.
And in the food business, we all know that hungry customers
Means profit.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Ready for this week? - Morning.
Good morning. - Morning.
- Good morning.
I've asked all of you to meet me
Here bright and early, right?
- Yes.
- In fact, so early, I rushed over here
Before even eating breakfast.
Luckily, I placed my order--
- Oh, god.
- --On my phone. - Ok.
- Oh, no.
- In fact, it's just arrived.
- What is that?
[bright chime]
[laughter]
- Well, say good morning to zoe, at least.
- Good morning, zoe! - Hi.
- Hey. - Hello.
- She has a face.
- Oh, yes.
- Oh!
- Is that a breakfast burrito?
- Wow.
- How is it?
- Oh, my goodness me.
That is delivery at its absolute best, right?
- Yes. Yes.
- Listen to this.
Last year alone, delivery apps across the u.S.
Took over $22 billion, which explains why they can
Afford these fantastic robots.
- Yes. [laughter]
- Zoe, send that to my office, please.
Thank you. - Yay.
[laughter]
[bright chime]
- Your challenge this week--
I want all of you to run a delivery-only restaurant.
- Oh!
- Yes!
- Give me luther.
[laughs]
- I'm going to be testing your time management,
Ability to advertise, and above all,
Your quality control.
Tomorrow, you're going to be open for business.
The team whose delivery-only restaurant receives the best
Overall feedback wins.
Is that clear?
- Yes.
- You'll be in two teams for this big challenge.
Tony, megan, ashley, sydney, and aaron,
You five bunch up over here, please.
You are going to be the red team.
- All right, I'm ready for this.
- Good. - I'm into this.
- Which means the blue team, queen, caroline,
Luther, chris, and lan.
- Blue team.
- We got this. - You guys ready?
- Yeah. - Yep.
- Good, your kitchens are awaiting you.
Off you go. Good luck.
[all cheering]
- This week is all about the phenomenon
Of online delivery services.
And the contestants need to show me that they've
Got this in the bag.
Delivery-only restaurants are stripped back and efficient.
- Ooh, look at this kitchen.
- Whoo-hoo!
- I can't wait to mess it all up.
- No sitting customers, waiting staff,
Or prime real estate.
That means less cost and more profit.
And you won't find them on a map.
That's why they're known as ghost kitchens.
- Has anyone done a ghost kitchen?
Awesome.
- My experience with food delivery service
Has been pretty incredible.
The past year, I launched luther bob's.
And in one year, we did over half a million dollars
In revenue.
- Who's worked with, like, a ghost kitchen here?
- I've never worked with one.
I've ordered plenty of things from them, though.
- I know from my experience with kool kats, we are,
Like, the most loved in our town for food deliveries.
I created this whole system behind everything.
- Before their apps go live tomorrow,
The teams must know their market.
So first job, choose the type of food downtown la workers
Would want to buy.
- First thing I thought of was wings.
Wings would be a great delivery option.
- From my experience, when you order them,
They usually come in soggy, and the sauce
Is all over the place. - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- People are going back to their offices.
- Right.
- They want to be energized, refueled--
- Yes. - --For their meal.
They don't want to feel heavy.
- I think I have a really good idea.
Like, in my catering company,
I'm known for mediterranean food.
So I'm also known for healthy, flavorful options.
- Awesome.
- So I think we should do a mediterranean spin.
- Something like a salad. - And you know what?
We can do a flip on it, because normally mediterranean,
It comes on skewers... - Yes.
- This and that. What if we did bowls?
- That'd be beautiful. - So it's different.
- Yes. - It's very, like, now.
- The base is the same.
In the bowl, we're going to put romaine,
Put a little bit of bulgur. - Mm-hmm.
- Every bowl has that.
- Pick your protein.
- Be careful about customization,
Because we need to take pictures.
- That's a very good point.
- What type of proteins are we thinking?
- We want to go chicken, beef, a little more standard.
- One thing we learned from last challenge--
- Yes.
- --Let's try to keep it simple plus
Delicious at the same time.
- It still has to be fast. - Ok.
[suspenseful music]
- What kind of food interests you guys?
Like, when you're ordering, what food do you
Normally, like, gravitate to?
- Mexican food. - Mexican food.
- Ooh.
- Mexican food.
- Whatever we can bang out the quickest.
We need to focus on getting food
Out faster and the presentation looking nice.
So we want to keep it simple.
- And keep a high standard of quality of food.
- What do you guys think about doing american, the classics?
- Oh, a diner.
- Yeah, like, the diner look.
- We could do burgers.
I think we could make that pretty streamlined and quick.
- Absolutely.
And we could do a bacon onion jam.
- That could be that thing that sort of separates us,
Is our jam that we--
- It's our jam.
- But it sounds so good.
- I think we should do, like, a vegetarian option.
I was thinking the grilled cheese brings it back
To, like, an american classic.
- On the red team, I'm the only one
That has actually created a food delivery
System for the restaurant.
Luther has a restaurant like that
As well, where his was specifically
A ghost kitchen like this.
I feel like luther's kind of my equal on the other team.
So I really just want to stick it to him
And show him what I'm made of.
[dramatic music]
- Style of cuisine chosen, the teams need a name,
Which will grab the customer's attention.
- Irresistibowl. - I like that.
- I like it.
It looks a bit long, though.
That's my only reservation.
- Ok, better bowls? No?
- Better bowls?
- It's better, because it's healthy.
It's different.
- Better bowls is simple, and it's--
I like it.
And it gets the point across.
- We should throw out a bunch of names.
- Star-spangled burger or something like--
- The only thing that makes me go against putting "burger"
In our actual name is because we
Have one item that's a burger.
- Right.
- What about the all-american?
- I like the all-american. - It's the all-american.
- Yeah, I like that.
- It's, like, a general-- like, the all-american.
Like, what's here?
It's american food.
It's burgers; it's grilled cheese.
- Great.
- The teams must now devise a menu consisting
Of two main dishes--
- Ok, luther, when do I start chopping?
- One sec.
- Ok.
- --And one mouthwatering side, which I'll be
Taste-testing in less than one hour.
- So I'm going to have you in charge of making
The salad, ok?
Very small dices. - Ok.
- Very even. - How much oil?
Like, to the top?
- Until it's covered.
Make sure the station stays clean.
That's how we're going to be efficient.
- It appears to me that luther has a micromanagement issue.
- Did you do sumac already?
- I already did.
- Ok, we'll do a little more.
I think you need some more moisture in the bulgur.
- I'm hoping that by tomorrow he cuts the crap out,
Or this is a problem.
[suspenseful music]
- The one thing that I will ask you--
Have you purchased a grilled cheese
From a delivery app before?
- I don't eat grilled cheese.
- Megan, what about you? - Never.
- Never?
So tony really wants to do a grilled cheese.
I'm nervous about the fact that people
Might think a grilled cheese is too simple.
And I'm also nervous about how it's going to taste
When people finally get it.
- Damn, this grilled cheese is not melted.
[bleep].
[groans]
[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Ten of america's top food and drink entrepreneurs
Are competing to win my quarter-million
Dollar business investment.
This week's challenge--
Harness the multibillion-dollar
Industry of food delivery apps.
- That is really good.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Each team must create a menu that sells,
A system that works, and food that tastes great.
- Damn, this grilled cheese is not melted.
[bleep].
[groans]
- They go live tomorrow lunchtime.
But I'm coming to test their dishes now.
[suspenseful music]
- This looks beautiful.
I'm not even kidding you, if this came to my door,
Just the colors alone-- - very nice.
- Yeah. - Good job.
- Beautiful. - Yeah!
- Really proud of this. - Yeah.
- I'm really proud. - It looks good. It looks good.
- Ok, smells good.
- Thank you. - All right.
- Thank you. - Do you know what?
Before I taste it--
- Yes, sir?
- --Give me two seconds.
- What's going on?
- I don't know. - ♪ dun, dun, dun ♪
[light upbeat music]
- Oh, my god. - [laughs]
- What's wrong?
- Are you about to be the delivery boy?
- Am I your delivery boy? - Yes.
- Are you kidding me?
[laughter]
- Oh--
[laughter]
- Wasn't expecting a bike.
- Nice bike.
- So like all home delivery, I want to see what
It looks like and tastes like-- - mm-hmm.
- Yes?
- --After it's been in transit. - It's been in transit.
- Ok.
- Who's up for a 15-minute cycle?
- I am.
I wish I had a bell.
Ding-ding.
Whoo!
- Yeah!
- Ok, let's go.
- You made it.
Right, this here is the--
- Fries. - --Fries.
Yeah?
Who put that-- who put that together?
- I did. - It's a lovely idea.
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
That's delicious.
They're really good.
Right, burger-- so first impressions,
Yeah, it's together.
It's transit-- well.
What's that on there? - Bacon jam.
I got excited there with that beautiful color
On the smashburger.
But that bacon jam has made this what?
- Soggy. - Soggy.
So sweet.
This is the downside.
- Yeah.
- Grilled cheese.
Just make sure that mozzarella melts.
It needs more temperature on the mozzarella.
In the food industry quality control
Is critical if you want good reviews and repeat customers.
Right, price points.
Smashburger, how much? - For $11.
- Fries? - $8.
- $8's expensive.
Grilled cheese, how much?
- $7.
- Potential's there, but there's
Basic problems here that I know you all can adjust easily.
In business, for the goodness of the win,
Voice your concern before we hit the rocks.
- Yeah.
- That way, we pump the brakes, and we don't hit the rocks.
- Yeah. - Good luck.
Off you go. - Thank you.
- Fantastic.
- We know what we need to refine.
- Let me tell you, at gordon ramsay burger in vegas,
We sell 2,000 burgers a day.
Putting burgers together and being consistent
Is all about being smart.
That grilled cheese and that onion
Jam on that smashburger, nice refinements.
But they need to be much better executed for tomorrow's lunch.
[suspenseful music]
Next to return, caroline--
- Oh, there she is.
- You made it!
- --With the blue team's mediterranean better bowls.
Let's go.
- All right.
- So the filet steak, why is it gray
And not a beautiful sear?
What happened?
How did we cook that?
- What do you mean?
- Well, you see, the outside was gray.
- So I wasn't able to get the full reverse sear in.
- Oh, I didn't know you were reverse searing.
That's why. - That's right.
- So when you reverse sear, normally,
You do that with meat that has a lot of fat.
A filet has how much fat? - Very little.
- So be smart. - Ok.
- And then to the bulgur, it's only 25% of the bowl.
- Right, it should be more underneath.
- We will put more. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And how much is this? - $16.
- Chicken, what cut are we going for?
- It is a thigh.
- So just be careful there.
It's a bit pink.
You're not going to get away with pink chicken.
That's a big no-no. - Right, right.
- And how much is this again?
- The chicken's $14.50.
- Eggplant, how much are we going on this?
- $12.99. - Eggplant's delicious.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, we had a side of--
- Roasted red pepper hummus.
- I like the fact that you've charred that and marked that.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, we've got enough cooking experience here
And enough design and marketing experience
Here to nail this challenge.
Help me out a little bit.
You're in this game, right? - Absolutely, absolutely.
- Yeah. - Good luck.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- So blue team are going down that mediterranean
Route with those bulgur bowls.
Right now, the steak is poorly seared.
And chicken that is pink as caroline's hair,
That is a refund right there.
They'd better be careful.
[suspenseful music]
The online delivery business is a crowded marketplace.
To stand out, the teams must nail their online menu.
- I find writing about food to come very naturally.
And, megan, you're going in with aaron for photos?
- Yeah, I can go ahead and tackle photos.
I'm really happy to do that.
- Ok.
[upbeat music]
- Ok, so you guys are doing pictures.
- I'm kind of nervous about how the photos are going
To come out, to be honest.
- Listen, if you want to do pictures, I'll stay here.
- Ok.
- And I'll work with them on mission and menu.
And we'll go that way.
- Honestly, I think that that's a good idea.
I know what a good food photo is supposed to look like.
I've done it a million times.
My full-time job is to be the ceo of pizza girl
And to run that, right?
You literally just want to see delicious food.
- These pictures better look good.
[upbeat music]
- To sell their food, the teams need one mouthwatering
Photo of each dish.
- Oh, we have all the props.
Oh, my gosh.
- Less is more.
You do not want a cluttery-ass photo.
- So I've set them up with a professional food photographer
To get that perfect shot.
- I feel like it's too bright.
Are you shooting at 2.8?
- Ready?
- Oh, hell yeah. - Oh!
Oh! Oh!
[laughs]
- Just keep snapping while he's doing that.
- Take it easy.
Take it easy. - [exhales]
- Mamma mia.
- Thank you so much for your help, too.
You're, like, flipping so quickly.
- Oh, it's my pleasure.
- No, we appreciate it.
- I feel like maybe the angle is the issue.
Maybe you need to come down.
Can you just get a little closer?
- Absolutely. Yeah.
- A little bit closer.
- I like seeing it much closer like that.
Ok, whew! That's looking better.
Good job.
- Teamwork makes the dream work.
- Thank you so much. It was such a pleasure.
- It was a pleasure.
Thank you. - The pictures look great.
- As well as enticing images and descriptions,
The menus must create a brand identity that
Really hooks in the customers.
- We could even make it funnier.
We could say, two chefs, a scientist, a pharmacist,
And a pizza girl.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what we should do.
- [laughs]
- You don't think that's too--
- Funny?
- --Long?
- I think it's hysterical.
- Spell check on mozzarella.
- [laughs]
- M-o-t-z.
- M-o-t-z?
- There's no t.
- Mozzarella? - Is there?
- Yeah.
- I thought--
- Clearly, I don't know cheese.
[laughs]
- Are we putting what's vegetarian, what's vegan,
What's gluten-free? - I feel like we should.
- We need to. - Yeah, yeah.
- Gf.
- What about the side?
Yeah?
- Yes, they're all gluten-free.
We have taken into consideration gluten-free,
Vegan, vegetarian.
We're going to wheel this thing in.
And hopefully, gordon ramsay likes it.
- Are we calling it fancy sauce or secret service sauce?
- Yeah! - Oh, yeah.
- Boom! - Whoa-ho!
- That one...
- Secret service sauce--
- Just flew out of you.
That's actually really--
- Secret service sauce.
- I need to carry my team to victory,
Or else I'm going to be back in elimination with gordon,
Which I really don't want to be.
- The menu and photos are only part of the challenge.
So both teams better be aware,
Because I've got one big surprise for them.
And they've got no idea what's coming tomorrow.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
- I'm so excited.
I'm feeling confident.
How are you doing?
- I'm feeling really good.
- It's launch day for the teams' food delivery apps.
- I'm fueled by hummus today.
- Fueled, fueled by hummus.
- I'm just a little chickpea ready to get mixed.
- In two hours, hungry la office workers
Will be able to log on and order their lunch
From their online menus, which the teams are about to see
For the first time.
- All right, 1, 2, 3.
- Ooh.
- Wow.
- Nice.
- Ok, let's check out what these descriptions are.
- "so what happens when two chefs, a scientist,
"a pharmacist, and a pizza girl combine their love
"for mediterranean food?
You get better bowls."
- Nice.
- I see the menu and mission statement for the first time,
And I am mortified.
Do you want to buy food,
Mediterranean food from a pharmacist
And a scientist and a pizza girl?
It's garbage.
- I'm so excited to take a look at this.
- All right, yeah, so--
- I'm excited to see the pictures.
- Let's see what it looks like.
Ooh!
Ok. - Wow.
- Guys, it looks so good!
- That actually looks really good.
We got all our elements.
- I love the hand dipping it.
- You guys nailed it. - Yeah.
- I'm super excited.
I'm ready to kill some burgers. - I'm pumped.
- Whoo! Let's do it.
- Ok, let's look at the pics.
- Yes. - Nice.
- The harissa looks so beautiful.
- My thought was not to overcrowd
It with a bunch of stuff, really make the food
The centerpiece.
- Beautiful, yes.
- Did you guys pick the hero shot to be this?
- We did.
Yes, we did.
- I love the steak picture.
- Isn't the steak picture beautiful?
- I feel like this should have been the hero shot.
- You think so? - Yeah.
- Now, let's look at it.
Go back to the-- go back to the steak picture.
- I just think this looks really messy.
My initial reaction looking at the eggplant,
It did not look appetizing.
And I'm going to voice that.
- You know what it kind of feels like?
It kind of feels like you're reaching--
- Oh?
- --And trying to find something wrong.
- No, I think that's--
- No, I really am not reaching.
This is my honest opinion.
- Yeah, but we're also in la.
And people are much more, like, veggie-driven.
- Several times, caroline has jumped
At whoever says something opposition to what she says.
We all are bosses here.
We're all entrepreneurs.
If I have something to say, I'm going to say it.
If lan got something to say, she's going to say it.
- This steak is beautiful.
This just looks high-end.
- That doesn't look like what would sell it.
Sorry, you're wrong.
- Look, if I'm seeing this, and this is one of my team
Or my employees picking this picture,
I would have voiced it right then and there anyway.
I'm not scared of caroline, nor am I here for her.
But I'm going to voice my opinion 100%.
[upbeat music]
- The team's delivery-only restaurant apps
Go live in less than an hour.
- Yeah, so here, we want to get it set up like this.
- Yeah.
- Salad, da, da, da, bulgur wheat.
Let's put it all the way over there on the side.
- All right, let him set this up the way he
Needs to set this up,
Because he has to run the station.
You have to run the grill.
If his station does not work for his flow,
It's not going to work. - That's fine. That's fine.
That's fine.
Queen is quite vocal. I think she wants to step up.
She wants to lead.
And so I'm going to let her do what she wants to do.
- I really want to beat luther, because this is his specialty.
- We're definitely the underdogs in this competition.
The other team has luther and queen, both sous-chefs.
And I think that they're feeling really confident.
- The competition's really heating up.
- You know, coming out of the last grilling,
You know, it doesn't feel great.
So I just need to push myself, push my team, you know,
And just push out a really great product
Every single time.
- Right, red team, we good? How are we feeling?
Come over. Come over.
- We're about to do a run-through now.
- Good, smart. What's the pickup time?
- 5, 6 minutes.
- If you can get that timing down to 4, 4 and 1/2 minutes,
Then we can do more orders. - Right.
- Who's executing?
- I'm running expo.
I'm going to be the one calling--
- Ok, stop there. Quality control.
Don't-- don't do that weird [bleep] with me.
We're going live. No, no, but look at me.
- Yes, sir. - No, I need to be serious.
- Yeah. - Ok?
I need you to be really serious.
- Yeah. - So what does that mean, expo?
- Means I'm going to be calling out the orders.
- No.
Do you want to lose this challenge?
- No. - No?
- Not at all. - Get serious, then.
So quality control.
Don't just stand there and look like a busy idiot.
Stand and focus on the quality.
If you're not happy with it, you send it back.
- Yeah.
- Just over 20 minutes from now.
- Thank you, chef. Thank you.
- All right, let's finish this run-through.
- Right, so, blue team, how are we doing on prep?
- Great.
- Have you cooked any beef off?
- We did the reverse sear on the beef.
- Oh, so you're sticking with that?
- Yep.
- Ok, do you just ignore everything
I'm telling you in terms of-- - no, I put my faith--
- I'm just asking that because you know filet mignon does not
Take well being cooked twice.
I asked yesterday what's the pickup per ticket?
- Five minutes.
- How long will it take to cook a piece of beef from raw?
- From raw?
Would take-- - roughly.
- --15 to 20 minutes.
- Stop exaggerating.
I don't know where your head is at the moment,
But it's not in the game.
Why are you cooking meat twice?
You just need to cook it once, perfectly.
- Right. Yeah.
- Show me the app.
- This is our motto--
I mean, our tagline.
- Can I just stop you all there?
- Yes, sir.
[tense music]
- Gluten-free?
Bulgur is wheat.
So how can it be gluten-free?
Bulgur wheat is cracked wheat.
We go live in 20 minutes.
On their menu, it's obliterated with gluten-free.
There's not one item on their menu that's gluten-free.
If that's how organized they are before service,
God only knows what's going to happen when we go live.
[dramatic music]
- Downtown la, two teams are battling out
For my quarter-million dollar investment.
- Extra sauce going in the fridge.
- In the blue team's kitchen, I spotted a dangerous error.
Can I just stop you all there?
- Yes, sir.
- Bulgur is wheat.
So how can it be gluten-free?
Bulgur wheat is cracked wheat.
20 minutes before we go live,
You know we can't put gluten-free and then
End up with potential 911.
Let me talk to the operations and get this thing
Changed, yeah?
- Thank you.
- Gluten-free?
[bleep] idiot-free.
- Wheat is gluten!
Queen should have known what bulgur was.
We could possibly lose for that.
- Gordon really saved our ass right there.
He really saved our ass.
- Disaster averted, both kitchens are ready to go live.
- I'm labeling our fry boxes right now.
I know with food delivery it's
Super important that people know
What they're about to open.
Fries is f-r-I-e-s, right?
- Yeah.
- Ok, good.
- We got this!
♪ ♪
- 1:00 p.M., our lunch service begins
As hungry la office workers start to place their orders.
♪ ♪
[bright chime]
- Ok, first order is one better chicken, one filet mignon,
One better veggies, two of the roasted garlic
Hummus with pitas.
- Thank you.
[bright chime]
- Oh, we got an order.
- Yeah!
- Two fry, one grilled cheese, two burger.
- Flipping burger.
- I think we're going to crush it.
We just have to communicate.
- Both teams have just taken their first orders
From nearby offices.
- We can either have a smooth service,
Or we can have a hurried service.
But we're not going to have a failed service.
- But they aren't the only customers
They'll need to impress.
What the teams don't know is I've
Put together the most amazing panel of industry experts.
And guess what.
We are hungry for lunch.
[dramatic music]
Helping me decide which team deserves to win today,
Ceo of uber and uber eats dara khosrowshahi,
Debbie roberts, coo of one of america's favorite bakery
Cafes, panera bread, and founder
Of better-for-you snack brand, feastables, and virtual
Restaurant chain, mrbeast burgers,
Youtube's biggest star, jimmy donaldson,
Aka mrbeast.
So first impressions on the banner from the red team?
What did you think, debbie? - I love it.
It shows the variety. I think it's pretty cool.
It grabs your attention. - It feels safe.
It's average. It's not great, in my opinion.
- Dara? - I like it.
It suggests the entirety of the menu.
- Yeah.
- All right, let's make sure you
Guys are keeping an eye on how beautiful it looks.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- Excellent, thank you.
- It does look very appetizing, though.
- Yeah, I see the caramelization on the bun
On the edges. - The bun looks great.
- Yeah, it looks good. - The bun looks great.
- You swipe over, you see that grilled cheese.
Now there's a shot.
- I love someone actually pulling
The grilled cheese apart.
You can see it's gooey.
- That makes me want to order it.
That looks good.
[bright chime]
- We got a new order.
One fry, one burger.
- "we're inspired by the great american classics
And pride ourselves on our premium quality ingredients."
- Premium quality ingredients, it's just generic.
Everybody uses those words.
- So the liberty smashburger at $9, how does that sit?
- That's a good price.
- I do smashburgers, and it's about the same price.
So I think it's phenomenal.
- You're picking up two, correct?
And I labeled the order numbers on here
So they don't get mixed up.
♪ ♪
- Thank you very much.
- Two bags for the one order.
- Perfect.
- Delivery driver.
One moment, let's make sure that you have the right order.
- Let me make sure that this is your order.
Yep, yep, you've got it. - Awesome.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you so much.
- Have a good day.
- So, blue team, debbie, what'd you think?
- It doesn't draw me in.
I think it's just too tight of a shot.
They should have pulled out.
- Gives me anxiety.
It's like they literally shove the camera in the bowl.
- Yeah, if you saw this on the uber eats app,
You wouldn't know what you're looking at.
- Yeah. - Doo-doo-doo.
Come on, give it to me.
Thank you.
This looks beautiful.
- First bowl?
- Ooh. The meat looks amazing.
This right here looks like it should be
More what their header was.
This looks phenomenal. - Yes.
- I agree.
- Love the colors, the brightness.
This is excellent.
This is a great picture.
- I need a steak!
- These are taking so long.
- Here, can I take 'em?
- No, they need to rest for a bit.
- How long?
- Give me two more minutes on this.
- I need it right away.
- I worry a little bit--
"two chefs, a scientist, a pharmacist, and a pizza girl."
That doesn't sound--
- That makes me think my food's going
To be some mutant hybrid.
- I think they did their food a disservice,
Because if you read the description,
You see it's healthy food.
It's locally sourced.
But you don't get to that, because to me,
That's in conflict with the scientists and
The pharmacist making food.
- So just under $16 for a filet mignon in a bowl,
How does that sound?
- Pricey.
For that to be your base price without add-ons--
- Seems very high.
- --I think it's heavy. - Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
- I got three grilled cheese, two burger, two fries all day.
- Yeah.
- I make pancakes with my company, happy grub.
So this is definitely a different experience.
- Grilled cheese?
That's just a little dark.
I'm fine with that.
It's not, like, burnt-burnt.
[bright chime]
- All right, we got another order up.
- Heard.
- How's that chicken looking?
Is that chicken ok, guys?
- Pink chicken thighs means we're getting sued.
And I'm not getting sued today.
- These are resting right now.
How many chickens do you need, two?
- Luther-- - what?
- --I need you to hear me. - Yeah?
- We need two chicken all day.
We need three steaks all day on the fly.
- Got it.
- Luther, we've got to get some chicken going.
Will you just slice it up? - Caroline...
- It's got to be cooked. Get on that.
- Stay there. Stay in your station, baby.
- Luther had not stepped up.
So you know, it looks like queen is taking the leadership
Role today, and I like it.
- Luther, these are not hot, baby.
These chickens are not hot.
You cannot serve that.
- Ok.
- Luther's quiet as a field mouse.
Like, what the heck?
I was not expecting that.
I thought he was going to be like, come out, guns blazing,
"this is what we should do."
And I ain't got time to go home because we all had no leader.
- Luther runs a ghost kitchen.
This is what he does for a living.
Like, if you're not good at what
You claim to be the best at, then what are you doing here?
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- In downtown la, the two teams' food
Delivery businesses are getting underway.
[bright chime]
- Ready?
We got another order.
We got three fry-- - ok.
- --Three cheese--
- --As orders come in thick and fast.
[bright chime]
Drivers race across the city dropping off
The lunch deliveries--
- One order.
Here you are.
- --Which unbeknown to our teams, include our own.
First up, the blue team's better bowls.
I'll be using the feedback from my panel of experts
To help me work out who has nailed this challenge
And whose food has failed to deliver.
- So this is what the chicken was--
Ohh!
And that's not what it looks like at all.
- Oh, boy.
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 strips.
I got four strips.
Clickbait.
- For me, it does look healthy and premium.
I just don't know if it's up to that $13.99.
- And the filet mignon?
- Mine doesn't look appetizing at all, I have to say.
- It's all undercooked.
- It's just, like, drenched in pepper.
I actually-- I'm kind of terrified to eat it,
Because I don't want to cry. - [laughs]
- It literally made my eyes water.
I've never had that happen before.
- Veggie bowl.
Doesn't look like anything we saw--
- No.
- --On that top banner, does it?
Because that was the hero picture.
We've gone from hero to zero.
- It actually tastes better than it looks.
- I do like it.
- I like this much more than the steak.
- Yeah.
- You know, I think what this team
Got right was it felt healthy.
- Mm-hmm.
Next up, the red team with their all-american menu.
- Just remember, guys, we want to make these beautiful.
- I'm feeling good on quality control.
I'm putting together most of our burgers.
So if anything happens, it's on me.
- Fries coming.
- How we feel about those?
They look a little crispy.
- Oh, they're delicious.
[indistinct chatter]
- Awesome. Thank you, dude.
Have a good day.
- Thank you.
- Ok, so burgers--
Here we go.
- I mean, it looks almost too good.
Oh, yours looks like it's ripped in half.
Ooh.
- Shall we dig in, guys?
- It could use a little more sauce, a little more--
More of a hit. - Mm-hmm.
- You know what?
Now that you point that out, it does feel just slightly dry.
- And the bacon onion jam, do you like the taste of that?
- The bacon and jam?
- There's, like, a bacon onion jam.
- I didn't get any.
- There's no bacon and jam on mine.
- Yeah.
- I just see tomato, lettuce, and then just meat.
There's-- - yeah.
- --I'm kind of sad there is no bacon onion jam,
Whatever that is.
- Whoever's expediting forgot to put it on there.
The fries?
- The color, the cheese on top of it, the presentation,
Actually, it comes out looking great.
- Mm-hmm.
- Secret service sauce, has anyone tried that yet?
- I like it.
- This is pretty good.
- The grilled cheese--
- The promise, that's pretty good.
Look at that. - $8?
- I take it back. - Yeah.
- Excellent. - Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's good.
- Is your grilled cheese burnt? - Very burnt.
Yeah, like, this part, like,
It's literally just dark black.
- Could I just say thank you for making
The effort to be here? - Thank you. Thank you.
- We couldn't have done this without you.
You've been a great aid. Thank you.
- Thank you very much. Very nice, pleasure.
- I'll see you again. Yes, thank you.
Thank you, my darling. - Yeah, thank you.
- Good to see you. - Thanks so much.
- Do I get a kiss? - Do you [bleep].
♪ ♪
Lunchtime rush over.
The teams' ghost kitchens are now closed.
- Hey, nice job, y'all.
- We're all feeling-- yeah. - Nice job.
Nice job.
You know, I had fire all over the place, grease in my eyes.
But it was intense.
- Really great job, guys. - Yeah, great job.
- Yeah, killed it. - Everyone pushed it.
- I feel about as crispy as one of your french fries
Right now.
I am like, whew!
- Good job.
Everybody, good job.
Good job, luther.
- Good job.
- Thank god that queen took over.
I did not have confidence in luther.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Cheers to hummus. - To hummus.
I hope we did enough to win.
- Tomorrow, I'll reveal which team came out on top
With my panel of experts.
And for one entrepreneur,
Their journey will come to an end.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Ooh.
♪ ♪
- Good evening. How are we feeling?
- Good evening. - Good.
- Ok, good.
Four big challenges in, what a journey it's been so far.
Now, I asked all of you to create your very own
Delivery-only restaurant.
Tough, right? - Yes.
- But for me, it was a perfect test of your
Advertising skills, time management,
And more importantly, quality control.
- Mm.
- I told you this challenge would be based
On customer feedback.
What I didn't tell you-- to help me test your food,
I was joined by ceo of uber and uber eats--
[laughter]
- --Dara khosrowshahi.
I had the coo of panera bread, debbie roberts.
- Wow.
- To top it off, the mastermind behind mrbeast burger--
- No! - No way!
- --Mrbeast himself.
In fact, over the last 12 months,
His burgers alone from ghost kitchens
Have grossed over $100 million.
- Wow. - What?
- He's a mastermind, dude.
- Blue team, the standouts was that vegetarian better bowl.
They loved the eggplant.
But overall, the food did not look and taste
As good as the menu led us to believe.
- Mm.
- How did you decide who's doing what?
- My first thought, ok, this is an app.
We have one chance to show our food.
It has to be a beautiful photo of the food.
So I thought immediately, I know what to do here.
I'm going to jump in. - Mm-hmm, good plan.
- I wasn't necessarily excited when I saw that the eggplant
Was the hero shot considering that's not
The most common protein that a lot of people see.
I think they created a really beautiful steak and chicken
Photo that I think could have really, you know,
Captivated the consumer.
- Wow.
Red team, the food that you sent us looked exactly
Like it was on your app.
- Yes!
- They described your fries as absolutely stunning.
- Yeah!
[applause]
- And that secret service sauce was the perfect dip.
But we were disappointed to find
The caramelized bacon onion jam was missing
On every one of our burgers.
And on top of that, mrbeast opened up his grilled cheese,
And it was burnt.
Now, all of you, I sat for over an hour
With my special guests, took a long time
Considering how each team did.
At the end of the day, the winning team is--
[suspenseful music]
At the end of the day, the winning team is--
♪ ♪
The red team.
- Yes. - Oh, my god.
[tense music]
- My special guests were huge fans.
Fries, exceptional.
Price point, absolutely spot-on.
But more importantly, the photography
Got the grilled cheese.
That stretch you took for the cheese--
- The stretch!
- --It didn't feel corporate.
It felt inviting.
Well done.
Now, blue team, for me, honestly,
It's clear that every single one of you
Had a hand into why you did not succeed.
So I'll be grilling all five of you
Tonight to convince me why you should
Stay in this competition.
I'll see you in the restaurant.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful percussive music]
Chris, sit down, please.
Queen, sit down, please.
Caroline, take a seat, please. - Ok.
- Luther, sit down, please.
Lan, as you can see, the name is on the back of your chair--
Third time here.
- [chuckles] it is.
- That didn't go to plan.
- No.
- From your point of view, why not?
- It was stuff I've never done before.
- You run a catering business.
- I do.
- As a team, this was yours to win hands down.
- This should have been ours to win.
Luther runs a ghost kitchen.
This is what he's good at.
I'm not a ghost kitchen expert.
- Your first grilling. - Right.
- This was in your wheelhouse, this challenge.
- Sure.
- I was expecting the reins to be held way firmer than this.
- The strength, which queen wanted to take those reins,
Was not something I wanted to have conflict with her.
I felt like supporting her would be the best
Decision at that moment.
- Question-- "what happens when two chefs, a scientist,
"a pharmacist, a pizza girl combine for their love
"of mediterranean food?
You get better bowls."
- I walked in, and I heard that that was the statement.
And I thought it was a joke.
- It makes no sense.
Who in the hell came up with that?
- I take responsibility for that.
I felt like we needed to set ourselves apart from everybody
Else on the app.
- So you weren't across the mission statement,
But you were across the photography?
- Correct. - At first glance--
- Mm-hmm?
- --I don't know what I'm ordering.
- That doesn't look like a bowl to you
With eggplant and bulgur in it?
- No, and I think the guy from uber eats,
Being the ceo, knows his [bleep], if I'm honest.
- I did not like that picture.
I did not think that that was the best
Representation of the overall encompassing concept.
- I made it clear on day one.
A reverse sear is a very technical thing to get right.
- I really genuinely believed the reverse sear,
Basting it with butter, would prove
Something to be excellent.
- Are you trying to get too clever?
Let me just say two words to you-- gluten-free.
- I know.
Oh my god.
- What the [bleep] was going on there?
- I had no choice in the matter.
- Who did put that on there?
- So that's queen, that's chris, and that's lan.
- At the last minute, you know, queen said,
"put gf, v," all these things.
And I just sat there and typed it out.
I mean, she's the chef.
- Gluten-free?
What is bulgur?
Cracked wheat.
- Yes, sir.
- Can you imagine if we didn't catch that
Before we went live?
- There's no excuse.
It was an error that should not have gotten past me.
- Mrbeast said the steak was so over-seasoned
It made his eyes water.
- Right.
- And the sad news is, ours did not look like that.
It was embarrassing.
- On my end, I should have double-,
Triple-checked and walked it through with caroline.
- You didn't take action whatsoever.
- Luther fell flat.
I can't rely on teammates who are experts in what they do
And fall flat.
- The quality control failed.
- If you were in my shoes right now,
Who would you send home and why?
- It came down to the food.
Ultimately, that lies in the hands of luther.
- I think queen overlooking the gluten-free
Was the biggest disaster.
- I would send luther home.
He clammed up.
- Queen should be the one to be sent home.
She absolutely does not take direction.
It's hard to manage that, control that.
- Luther, thank you.
- Thank you so much, gordon.
- Thank you, chris.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
- If there is a next time, thank you, queen.
- You're welcome.
Thank you.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I said to you from day one, your concept was very smart.
But the execution on the most important day,
The day we went live, was awful.
For me, there's one person who made
Way too many mistakes.
♪ ♪
The person I will not be investing in is--
♪ ♪
Luther.
- What? - What?
- You, young man, have more experience
Across ghost kitchens than anyone in this room.
You didn't stand up and make your voice be heard
As an expert in the field.
I know damn well you could have led your team to victory.
And for those reasons, I will not be investing in you.
We are done.
But let me tell you something--
At 27 years of age, to have that concept,
Luther bob's as your brand, and now
Entering into your first bricks and mortar, that's a big step.
Young man, good luck.
- Thank you, gordon.
- Thank you.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- Well, it's been a pleasure, guys.
- Yeah.
Pound it.
- This was luther's challenge to lose.
He knows how to run a ghost kitchen better than anyone
Else in this competition.
And he didn't make his voice heard.
And I need a business partner with a stronger voice.
Queen dodged a bullet tonight.
We avoided a huge fiasco when we
Were able to take that gluten-free off the menu
At the last minute.
- Next challenge, I'm going to step up
Until I can't step up anymore.
Game on.
- I'm sorry for my contribution to it
Not going our way.
I really am. - It's ok.
Don't cry. It's ok.
It's ok.
- He's just done so well throughout this competition.
And that just goes to show you that, like, one--
One bad challenge, and you're out.
- Ultimately, my downfall was that
I didn't stand up to queen.
Beyond just being an entrepreneur,
You have to be very aggressive.
And I'm very anti-conflict.
- Next time--
I've brought you all here to plan
An adventurous outdoor dining experience.
- Whoo!
- This will test your hospitality skills.
- I really don't know anything about the outdoors.
[bleep].
- Hospitality is a team effort.
- I don't think I can handle this part of it.
- Megan, what game are you playing?
That's not a good look on your behalf.
- If you look stupid, I look stupid, ok?
So cut the [bleep].
- You know it's crazy when gordon
Has to fix your mistakes.
- How many times did you make it all about you?
- I've had to make the toughest choice so far.
- Oh, my gosh.