Restaurant Stakeout
| Restaurant Stakeout | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Reality |
| Presented by | Willie Degel |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 58 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
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| Release | |
| Original network | Food Network |
| Original release | March 11, 2012 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Restaurant Stakeout is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on March 12, 2012, with the second season premiering on August 29, 2012.[1] It is one of the first non-studio shows attempted on Food Network.[2]
Plot
The series follows William Jack "Willie" Degel the owner of New York City restaurant Uncle Jack's Steakhouse, who goes behind the scenes of various restaurants across the country with hidden cameras to examine their food service problems with the owner(s).[3]
Once Willie has seen a variety of key issues (like the restaurant having no manager, a lack of training on the waiting staff, too many options on the menu, and no hostess stand), the owner(s) will hold a staff meeting that Willie will appear at and confront them about the various key issues. After that takes place, Willie would return the next day to help the owner(s) improve the restaurant and get the staff back in line. The show differs from other similar shows in that it blames the staff for all the problems. Unlike Kitchen Nightmares, there is rarely never a problem with the cuisine, restaurant cleanliness, menu, or decor. The owner's only fault is being much too easy on the staff. Unlike Mystery Diners, this show focuses on retraining the staff, as opposed to Mystery Diners, which is usually about getting a problematic employee fired (although occasionally, a few employees have been fired on this show).
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| 1 | 6 | March 11, 2012 | April 11, 2012 | |
| 2 | 13 | August 29, 2012 | December 12, 2012 | |
| 3 | 13 | March 13, 2013 | June 26, 2013 | |
| 4 | 13 | September 11, 2013 | January 8, 2014 | |
| 5 | 13 | June 4, 2014 | September 10, 2014 | |
Season 1 (2012)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Restaurant | Location | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "From the Top Down" | March 11, 2012 | ||
| 2 | 2 | "Party All the Time" | March 14, 2012 | ||
| 3 | 3 | "Find the Leader to Follow" | March 21, 2012 | ||
| 4 | 4 | "The Son and the Father" | March 28, 2012 | ||
| 5 | 5 | "Paint by Numbers" | April 4, 2012 | ||
| 6 | 6 | "Oh, Brother" | April 11, 2012 |
Season 2 (2012)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Restaurant | Location | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "Nobody's Runnin' the Store" | Trends Restaurant | Staten Island, NY | August 29, 2012 |
| 8 | 2 | "When the Cat's Away" | Nauna's Bella Casa Ristorante | Montclair, NJ | September 5, 2012 |
| 9 | 3 | "The Customer's Always Wrong" | Oakwood Diner | Staten Island, NY | September 12, 2012 |
| 10 | 4 | "Damsel in Distress" | PepperJack Grill | Staten Island, NY | September 19, 2012 |
| 11 | 5 | "Who Hires These People?" | September 26, 2012 | ||
| 12 | 6 | "Act Like the Boss" | Liberty Bar & Grill | Hoboken, NJ | October 10, 2012 |
| 13 | 7 | "That Money's Out the Door" | October 17, 2012 | ||
| 14 | 8 | "This Place is a Circus" | October 24, 2012 | ||
| 15 | 9 | "You Can't Fire Family" | Ariana Restaurant | Huntington, NY | November 14, 2012 |
| 16 | 10 | "On Its Last Leg" | Haven Grill bbq | Port Washington, NY | November 21, 2012 |
| 17 | 11 | "Little Place, Lotsa Drama" | November 28, 2012 | ||
| 18 | 12 | "My Big Fat Greek Nightmare" | Athena Mediterranean Grill | Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY | December 5, 2012 |
| 19 | 13 | "A Bunch of Spoiled Brats" | Joey D's Pizzeria & Restaurant | Metuchen, NJ | December 12, 2012 |
Season 3 (2013)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Restaurant | Location | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1 | "Barbecue With Attitude" | Hot Rods BBQ | Wharton, NJ | March 13, 2013 |
| 21 | 2 | "Momma's Boy" | Latin Kitchen | Bronx, NY | March 20, 2013 |
| 22 | 3 | "You Can't Be Everything to Everybody" | AJ's Burgers | New Rochelle, NY | March 27, 2013 |
| 23 | 4 | "Three Strikes and You're Out!" | Shiraz Persian Restaurant | Elmsford, NY | April 3, 2013 |
| 24 | 5 | "The Big...Not So Easy" | The Bayou | North Bellmore, NY | April 15, 2013 |
| 25 | 6 | "To Catch a 'Restaurant' Thief" | Danny's Grill & Wine Bar | Red Bank, NJ | April 24, 2013 |
| 26 | 7 | "Giving Away the House" | Gus's Franklin Park Restaurant | Harrison, NY | May 1, 2013 |
| 27 | 8 | "Kitchen Mafia" | Dock's Clam Bar | Staten Island, NY | May 8, 2013 |
| 28 | 9 | "Your Smokehouse Is a Joke-House" | Smokehouse Barbecue | Somerville, NJ | May 29, 2013 |
| 29 | 10 | "The Place Is a Ghost Town!" | Roasted Peppers | Mamaroneck, NY | June 5, 2013 |
| 30 | 11 | "Tuscan Tumbleweeds" | The Venetian Grille | Somerville, NJ | June 12, 2013 |
| 31 | 12 | "What Would Your Father Do?" | Michael's Roscommon House | Belleville, NJ | June 19, 2013 |
| 32 | 13 | "What Are You Servin' Here?" | Barzola | Flushing, Queens, NY | June 26, 2013 |
Season 4 (2013–14)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Restaurant | Location | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 1 | "Joe Broadway's or Bust" | Joe Broadway's | Staten Island, NY | September 11, 2013 |
| 34 | 2 | "Your Mom's Gotta Go" | Sugo Café | Long Beach | September 18, 2013 |
| 35 | 3 | "Blonde Ambition" | BlonDee's Bistro & Bar | Huntington, NY | September 25, 2013 |
| 36 | 4 | "Complete Pushover" | 90 Park | North Bergen, NJ | October 2, 2013 |
| 37 | 5 | "Kiss Beso Goodbye" | Beso | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY | October 9, 2013 |
| 38 | 6 | "Family Style Failure" | October 16, 2013 | ||
| 39 | 7 | "Bad News Bistro" | October 23, 2013 | ||
| 40 | 8 | "Clueless Cousins" | October 30, 2013 | ||
| 41 | 9 | "Starving for Customers" | November 27, 2013 | ||
| 42 | 10 | "Whine Bar" | December 4, 2013 | ||
| 43 | 11 | "Somers Almost Over" | December 11, 2012 | ||
| 44 | 12 | "Division Street Disaster" | December 18, 2012 | ||
| 45 | 13 | "Dysfunction Junction" | January 8, 2014 |
Season 5 (2014)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Restaurant | Location | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 1 | "Las Vegas Stakeout" | June 4, 2014 | ||
| 47 | 2 | "Sushi on the Strip" | June 11, 2014 | ||
| 48 | 3 | "Hoover Dam'd Pizza" | June 18, 2014 | ||
| 49 | 4 | "Unlucky in Vegas" | June 25, 2014 | ||
| 50 | 5 | "Hammered in Vegas" | July 2, 2014 | ||
| 51 | 6 | "Ciao, Vegas" | July 16, 2014 | ||
| 52 | 7 | "Golf Course Stakeout" | July 23, 2014 | ||
| 53 | 8 | "Fuggedabout Mario" | July 30, 2014 | ||
| 54 | 9 | "Willie Shuts It Down" | August 6, 2014 | ||
| Willie comes to the aid of the owners of a restaurant that has previously suffered a money theft that has prevented the owner's mother from retiring. For the first time in show history, Willie does not try to help revive the restaurant after seeing too many key issues with the restaurant. The owner and his wife decide to shut down after Willie meets with the staff where Willie ends up calling in an associate that specializes in restaurant auctions to help the owners raise money for the owner's mother to finally retire. | |||||
| 55 | 10 | "Father Daughter Stakeout" | August 13, 2014 | ||
| 56 | 11 | "Standup Stakeout" | August 20, 2014 | ||
| 57 | 12 | "Grand Opening Stakeout" | September 3, 2014 | ||
| 58 | 13 | "Million Dollar Stakeout" | September 10, 2014 | ||
References
- ↑ "What to Watch: Restaurant Stakeout". Retrieved 9 December 2012.
- ↑ "Food Network's Restaurant Stakeout: as fake and staged as it seems » reality blurred". reality blurred. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ↑ "About the Show". Retrieved 9 December 2012.