Dust off your dream of opening a restaurant chain because NBC wants to hear your pitch.
There's a casting call for America's Next Great Restaurant, a reality television competition, on Tuesday, March 30, at the Chipotle in Mission (6864 Johnson Drive) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Starring celebrity chef Bobby Flay, the show appears to be a combination of Last Restaurant Standing and Shark Tank. Flay and a panel of four judges decide which restaurant concepts have merit and whether to invest their own money into the projects. Contestants compete in a series of challenges each week to prove they are capable of running a restaurant and that their ideas are viable. The winner will be awarded a restaurant chain with locations in three U.S. cities.
If you want to attend the casting, you can pre-register on NBC's Web site. You should bring a photo ID and anything you think could help the judges understand your concept. Whether that's a visual aid, outfit or food product -- the choice is yours.
This is one of eight casting calls, the first of which is slated for March 19 in New York City, where Flay will be judging potential contestants. There's a Twitter feed where you can keep track of the progress.
The show's production company is Magical Elves, producers of Project Runway and Top Chef, so hopefully it will be more about the restaurant industry than some of the personality squabbles that tend to dominate reality shows.
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I have a great restaurant idea and I would like to get ON THE SHOW. This is my e-mail addres ropp_diana@yahoo.com. Or you can call me at 219-779-0170.
I want, more than anything else in the world, to open a Japanese restaurant in the Village at Mission and Tomahawk in PV.
Ok, wait...really, what I want, more than anything else, is for someone else to open a Japanese restaurant there!
Because running a restaurant = NO.
I don't care if it turns into a chain, similar to Sushi House, or something. I just want it. So if someone could submit that idea, and run with it, I'd be a very happy chick, dammit.
Maybe Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri should do business together. But then, the universe would probably explode.
Ugh, I loathe Bobby Flay. That said, I have always joked about starting the most generic restaurant of all time. It's called Sharkee'z. Everything menu item is described as extreme, bodacious, cheesy, blazing, crispy or Baja. If Guy Fieri were involved in this project, I bet he would approve.
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