Recipe for Success
Food Network brings food dreams to life in this dramatic series. Each week, host Eric McLendon introduces remarkable people who have swallowed their fears to undergo risky career makeovers. You'll meet a family who venture out to sell their favorite recipe for toffee, a brand-new mom who walks away from a magazine career to turn a cake-baking hobby into a business and a college student who models while building her specialized catering business. Recipe for Success tracks these budding businesses, from the idea all the way to opening day. In each half hour, you'll witness the sacrifice, uncertainty, success and even failure that come with creating a food-based business from scratch.
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Food Network brings food dreams to life in this dramatic series. Each week, host Eric McLendon introduces remarkable people who have swallowed their fears to undergo risky career makeovers. You'll meet a family who venture out to sell their favorite recipe for toffee, a brand-new mom who walks away from a magazine career to turn a cake-baking hobby into a business and a college student who models while building her specialized catering business. Recipe for Success tracks these budding businesses, from the idea all the way to opening day. In each half hour, you'll witness the sacrifice, uncertainty, success and even failure that come with creating a food-based business from scratch.
Episodes
S4 | E1
Buschwick
Dimitri Bazin opens a Caribbean bistro after his first two restaurants fail. It?s time to sink or swim as his bank account dwindles. Is he on solid ground this time, or still adrift in a sea of details? Will the sun set on his entrepreneurial dream or will he land in paradise?
S4 | E2
Via Elisa
Missing the authentic Italian food she knew while growing up, a woman sets out to create the freshest pasta in Atlanta. Determined, she quits her fulltime job. But, the high costs of imported cheeses and fresh produce means cash is hard to come by. She's doing all she can to keep her pasta company from boiling over, but is it enough?
S4 | E3
Soy Pizza
Refusing to give up pizza, even after doctor?s orders, Miki decides to open an alternative pizzeria. Will "Slice" really be the perfect food? She kneads to convince investors that the public will love her product or shell end up with cheese on her face.
S4 | E4
Hot Dogma
Straight out of college, three friends open a hot dog joint with a plan to share the profits with their church. Theyre starting with unconventional marketing, hoping that the money will soon catch up. Can they continue being Good Samaritans, or will they end up in the doghouse?
S4 | E5
Ruby Jewel
Outgrowing the local farmer's market, Lisa Herlinger tries to market her all-natural ice cream sandwiches to a national audience. She wins a judged "food fight" and decides to make Ruby Jewel Treats her full time business. Does Lisa have what it takes to leave the public screaming for her ice cream? Or will all her dreams, and money, melt away?
S4 | E6
Heritage Lemonade
Three long time friends try turning a college project into a profitable business. They specialize in lemonade flavors inspired by their southern roots and want to expand across the country. But, is the desire to quench many a thirst dealing them a life full of lemons?
S4 | E7
Super Suppers
A mom launches a business that helps busy families eat gourmet dinners together at home. Running the fledgling venture takes a toll on her family. Not only is mom working when the kids get home from school, but their college money is at risk when the numbers don'tt add up.
S4 | E8
Ohio Pizza
A couple leaves Washington DC to open a pizza joint in a college town. With no business experience, theyre left vulnerable to scams and legal battles but with little dough and temperatures rising at home, they knead to make this work.
S4 | E9
Bear Naked
Two twenty-somethings, friends from high school, start a very profitable granola business called Bear Naked. Expanding the business plunges them back into debt, and they both paid a personal price for all their hard work. The biggest unknown is whether their new product line will put them back in the black.
S4 | E10
Dream Dinners
Two women start Dream Dinners and its a smashing success. With the entire prepared food industry growing, they need to keep an eye on the competition. Can they re-market themselves and continue their dream or will they have a rude awakening?
S4 | E11
Pop Shop
A former professional football player turned actor and his wife take a chance and open a retro soda shop they hope will be successful. Multiple careers, the family relationship, and a restaurant may prove to be too many balls in the air. Will their dream pop or fizzle away?
S4 | E12
Beautiful Cookies
A former computer consultant decides to pursue her passion for cookies. She thinks it will be sugar and spice and everything nice, but her health, marriage, money and dreams are on the line. She holds her breath in hopes that her cookies don’t crumble.
S4 | E13
Munson Diner
Picking up a Manhattan diner to move it to another city sounds like a crazy idea. Well, one man is betting that its just crazy enough to work. He moves a New York City landmark eatery to revive a small upstate town. Can a real estate developer breathe life back into a once thriving vacation spot?