Guy Fieri invites four chefs he's visited on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives to prove their budgeting skills. First, the chefs play a game to determine the budget allowed to make their restaurant's best selling dish. Then, the remaining three competitors make their personal seafood favorites while working with a $25 budget and a limited grocery list. The winning DDD chef will shop Flavortown Market with a budget of up to $20,000

DDD Budget Battle

Guy Fieri

Hunter's Whammy Cart

Best Burgers

Guy Fieri gives food truck families the ultimate road test by challenging them to shop, cook and present their dishes together as a team. First, they must make their truck's best seller while taking a tag-team shop, where each family member shops in 60-second sprints as part of a four-minute grocery relay race. Then, the remaining two teams make their personal food truck favorite while also incorporating a dish style and condiment determined by two spinning food truck wheels. The winning food truck family will roll out of Flavortown with up to $20,000.

Food Truck Families

Guy Fieri invites three all-star chef moms and three all-star chef dads to a team showdown. In a relay-style event, the teammates work on their dish one at a time in 10-minute shifts. The first chef does the shopping and prepping, the middle chef does most of the cooking and the final chef plates and presents the team dish. Only the first chef on each team is told they're making an elevated kids' favorite that must include three classic lunchbox treats. The chefs in the later shifts will be working blind, cooking and presenting dishes based on their best guess of what the teammate before them was making. The team that successfully creates the best and most accurate version of the requested dish will go on a relay shopping spree for up to $15,000!

Relay: All-Star Moms vs. Dads

Guy Fieri invites four DDD chefs with vegan joints to compete in Flavortown Market. First, they must make their vegan best seller using only nine pounds of groceries to make four servings. Then, they'll serve up a meat-free steakhouse dinner using the combination of beefed-up produce and meat substitutes that Hunter hands out at the deli. The winner gets to shop the market for a whole lot of green stuff up to $20,000!

DDD Vegan

Guy Fieri invites four chefs to Flavortown Market to compete in two rounds of the guiltiest GGG games ever. Guy kicks things off with three guilty-pleasure wheels that will determine the ooey gooey details of the chefs' first dish. Then, the surviving chefs are sent for another spin as Guy gets even more indulgent with his twisted games and uses five guilty-pleasure wheels to determine the second dish. The winning chef will earn the guilty pleasure of shopping the market for up to $20,000!

Guilty Pleasure Wheels

Guy Fieri welcomes four previous winners back to Flavortown Market for a non-stop super battle. He gives them each $100 to make a complete steakhouse feast in 60 minutes, but first, they have to participate in a Flavortown whammy auction. Chefs must spend a minimum of $40 on a whammy ingredient they don't really want to avoid getting stuck with a worse item. Whatever they end up with must be used in both their appetizer and entrée. The chef who serves up the best feast will get to shop Flavortown Market for up to $20,000.

Winners' Whammy Auction

Guy Fieri sets up the ultimate face-off with a relay race between two chef teams. The chefs work as a tag team, with each teammate working one at a time in 10-minute shifts. Only the first chef on each team is told they're making a spicy champion's dinner that must include four ingredients on Guy's grocery list. Working blind, the chefs in the later shifts must cook and present dishes based on their best guess of what the teammate before them was making. The team that successfully creates the most accurate version of the requested dish will go on a tag team shopping spree for up to $15,000!

Relay: Ultimate Face-Off

Guy Fieri has plenty of deals to welcome four chefs to Flavortown Market, with red light specials in all 10 aisles. First, the chefs must create a fried feast, but in any aisle they shop, they must also use the red light special as a mandatory ingredient. Then, the remaining three chefs make a pork dish, and to make things even more difficult, Guy limits them to 11 ingredients or fewer. It's a game of strategy, where the winning chef gets to shop the store for up to $20,000!

Red Light Special Extravaganza

Guy Fieri brings in four baller burgermeisters for a bodacious burger battle. First, they must make an over-the-top cheeseburger using 10 items or fewer. Then, the three chefs who make the top-scoring burgers each receive a unique 2-for-1 special at the butcher counter -- an alternate ground meat plus an unusual produce item -- as must-have ingredients for their winning burger and fries. The winning burger chef will have it their way by shopping the market for up to $20,000

Guy Fieri's son Hunter has run out of time to restock the store, so he puts six returned items in each chef's cart. The chefs must use all six items over the course of both rounds, starting with a hometown favorite dish. In round two, the competitors make a grilled feast using their remaining mandatory items and ingredients from only the odd or even aisles. Finally, the winner gets to shop the entire store for up to $20,000

Guy Fieri sends four talented chefs running through the aisles in a high stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition. The chefs are hit by real-world challenges like finding workarounds when all the essential ingredients are suddenly "out-of-stock" or having to create a masterpiece when you can only cook with "5 items or less" or on a $10 budget. In the end, the food does the talking, as the last chef standing has the chance to make some serious dough!

DDD Budget Battle

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