Spoiler alert! This story consists of spoilers for the Prime Chef Season 22 episode that aired Could 1. The sequence is accessible to stream with a Peacock subscription if it’s good to catch up.
Solely eight cooks remained when Prime Chef: Vacation spot Canada resumed its run on the 2025 TV schedule Wednesday, and everybody knew what that meant: Restaurant Wars. I’m a longtime fan of this Bravo cooking competitors, and for so long as I can keep in mind, this has been one of the vital anticipated challenges of each season. It boggles my thoughts, then, why one particular mistake continues to get made. This season’s offender? Shuai Wang.
Entrance of home is such a tough place to be in on Restaurant Wars. You usually don’t get to totally oversee the cooking and/or plating of your dish, and also you’re not solely the face the judges most affiliate with the restaurant, however you’re type of accountable for the entire vibe. Should you ask for FOH, you’d higher know what you’re doing. Shuai was fast to volunteer for the job, so I assumed he did. Anybody watching Prime Chef Season 22, nonetheless, knew that wasn’t true when he stated throughout service:
I by no means know when to speak to the judges. It’s, like, being impolite in the event that they’re speaking and I am going say hiya. It’s fairly complicated.
It’s actually not complicated. Anyone who’s watched even one episode of Restaurant Wars ought to know you need to give the judges consideration early and sometimes. You should start wining and eating them the second they enter your institution. In the meantime, Shuai (pictured under) watched forlornly as he despatched a server to elucidate their eatery’s identify and idea to the very individuals who could be deciding if he remained within the competitors or not.
Why does this maintain occurring? Simply final season, we noticed Michelle Wallace get criticized for ready to greet her VIP friends after which not often being seen at their desk. In Season 19, Jackson Kalb was eradicated sooner than anticipated after failing to greet the judges after they walked in, then neglecting them all through the night, regardless of socializing with different diners. And that’s simply from two latest seasons!
Massimo Piedimonte might have been a bit heavy-handed in his FOH duties (see him lurking under because the judges attempt to privately focus on what they’ve simply eaten), however at the very least they noticed his face and had drinks in hand earlier than even sitting right down to eat.
Perhaps Shuai acquired flustered when he wasn’t in a position to begin prepping his shrimp early sufficient, however he dropped the ball when it got here to being current with the judges and in explaining their restaurant’s family-style idea to the servers. Ultimately, it wasn’t unhealthy sufficient to get him eradicated (sorry Paula Endara), however I simply can’t perceive why, 22 seasons in, anybody would volunteer for this place and never know the way necessary it’s to offer the judges loads of consideration.
Prime Chef continues to be a kind of exhibits that makes you hungry simply fascinated by it, and Restaurant Wars will probably be a season spotlight for so long as the present’s on the air. I simply hope future contestants perceive what they’re signing up for in the event that they volunteer to be entrance of home!