Restaurant Stakeout
Restaurateur Willie Degel put up cameras in an eatery that had not been faring very well. This was done in an attempt to find out what was going wrong. The setup was supposed to catch employees who were not working properly. After that, he would confront them and possibly even fire them as dramatically as possible. For your information, this is almost completely fake. The owner of the restaurant in the first season said that the Food Network contacted them and ran a screen-test on the employees before they started filming. Aside from that, the customers were asked to behave as obnoxiously as possible.