NBC seeming for America’s Next Great Restaurant

Steve Ells, along with Food Network star as well as award-winning cook Bobby Flay, celeb chef Curtis Stone, with restaurateur as well as executive cook Lorena Garcia are collaborating collectively to uncover America's Next Great Restaurant.

So, it is a complete coincidence that their "America's Next Great Restaurant," which debuts 6 March at 8 p.m., premiere on NBC.

"I'm searching for the kind of issues that I suppose has ready Chipotle productive," mentioned Ells, whose franchise currently includes a lot more than 1,000 Chipotle eating places all over the nation.

"Not only is it excellent foods along with a fantastic idea, but it is the ability for your entrepreneur, for that organization operator, to understand managements skills and also to have the ability to employ the best type of team - a crew that he can empower - and have the ability to feel on his ft and to handle all the kinds of adversity that's heading to become thrown his way," he stated.

Flay, the master of Mesa Grill, Bobby's Burger Palace, Bar Americain and Bobby Flay Steak, understands what it take to create a effective restaurant.

He assumes "terrific foods," "great service" also "an atmosphere that people are heading to enjoy" will do just that.

For that reason, the investors had been looking for something similar to Chipotle - a rapidly, casual format - when picking a winner.

"We had been searching within our contestants for characteristics that would enable these phones duplicate this type of expertise, to create an atmosphere and food that is related to folks, something people will get pleasure from consuming but that's elevated over the common fast-food offering," Flay stated.