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.
Chef Cliff Crooks is on a mission to retrain and reinspire struggling chefs across America. With their jobs on the line, these chefs are out to prove that they have the talent and passion required to keep running their kitchens.
Chef Cliff Crooks helps a first-time head chef in Portland, ME, understand budgeting and the bottom line. He works with an inexperienced chef at a family restaurant in Scranton, PA, and a chef in Syracuse, NY, whose care eats up time and profits.
Chef Cliff Crooks works with a businessman who became a chef and owner of his own food truck and a caterer desperate to draw in more clients. He also helps a restaurant owner whose two brothers and co-owners don't take him seriously because he can't cook.
Chef Cliff Crooks steps in to help a psychologist who became a chef to help at his in-laws' restaurant and a food truck owner who hasn't paid herself in three months. He also works with a Jamaican caterer who doesn't take criticism well.