
Gordon Ramsay hosts a fiery cooking competition in which the winner receives a head chef position.

The remaining three chefs must transform classic American dishes into entrées worthy of fine dining; the contestants' mothers vote on their favorite entrées without knowing who made them; chef Ramsay chooses the two finalists.

The final two chefs design and run their own restaurant.

Chef Ramsay brings in helping hands to staff the dinner service in the final challenge; tempers flare between competitors; the winner becomes the new head chef of one of Ramsay's Las Vegas restaurants.

Fifteen vie for the position of executive chef at Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant, scheduled to open in the summer of 2008; Gordon gets physically sick from a contestant's concoction; one contestant goes missing.