The Truth About Guy's Grocery Games Revealed

For a cooking show to stand out from the pack, it really needs an angle — a host engineered for TV helps too — and Guy's Grocery Games combines multiple angles. Here's what you don't know about Guy Fieri's successful shopping and cooking show.

If you're a chef who wants to put their cooking skills and creativity to the test on national TV by running around Flavortown to potentially collect $20,000, be prepared to jump through a few hoops. Guy Fieri doesn't just let anybody play his grocery games, and producers of the show put contestants through a pretty rigorous vetting process.

Sometimes producers track particular chefs down, and other times chefs reach out to the show. Keith Clinton, the chef de cuisine at Memphis' Erling Jensen: The Restaurant, got a call while at work from the show's producers. He told the Memphis Flyer:

"They just called the restaurant and said, 'I see you're doing some interesting things on Instagram and Facebook. We're just wondering who's the chef there and what's going on.'"

Chefs interested in being on the show are asked to submit photos of their best dishes, and have several Skype and phone interviews with the show's producers. AJ, a New Jersey firefighter who went up against other firefighters on the show, recalled:

"While it was a long process, it was totally worth it in the end."

The one thing contestants won't be required to do during the casting process is come up with a signature catchphrase, contestant Tracey Shepos Cenami told Delish. They leave that TV magic to Fieri.

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Lengthy casting process | 0:14
Judges have it good | 1:22
Not much cooking | 2:26
Encouraging creativity | 3:22
The Supermarket Sweep connection | 4:31
Contestant support | 5:40
Prepping is nearly impossible | 6:34
The same mistakes | 7:41
A real grocery store? | 8:30
Well stocked | 9:34
Almost no waste | 10:11

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