Supermarket Stakeout

Supermarket Stakeout is a reality competition series where blind luck, negotiation and cooking skills are the key ingredients to success.

Premise
Set in pop-up kitchens outside local supermarkets, each one-hour episode begins with Guarnaschelli giving the four chef contestants $500 apiece -- their whole budget to buy ingredients for the three-round cooking competition. In round one, the chefs can purchase ingredients only by blindly ambushing customers outside the store and negotiating for their grocery bags without knowing the contents. In round two, competitors can only purchase groceries from a single shopper, but may look through the bags before negotiating the price. In the third and final round, competitors may purchase only five ingredients in total, but can approach as many shoppers as it takes to get what they need. After each themed cooking round, the least successful chef is eliminated, leaving only two competitors going head-to-head in the final round vying for the prize. A rotating panel of judges determines which challengers had the most successful dishes using the acquired ingredients with the last chef standing in each episode walking away with enough cash for a year's worth of groceries.

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