Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

There's nothing more glamorous than running a restaurant – but there's also nothing more difficult. For restaurateurs trying to earn their piece of the pie, the New York food scene is a ruthless, cutthroat jungle where the stakes are high, the margins are razor thin, and success is hard to come by. In a new primetime docu-series, Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business, CNBC takes viewers behind–the-scenes of five very different restaurants in the ultra-competitive New York food scene, chronicling their every struggle and occasional triumph.

The 8 one-hour episodes will follow five businesses at a crossroads, fighting for their piece of a multi-billion dollar industry: famed NYC hotspot and budding empire The Meatball Shop; Melba's, a Harlem comfort food restaurant and neighborhood joint with national ambitions; Ann & Tony's, a multi-generational restaurant in the Bronx that's struggling to fill seats ─ and preserve its family legacy; Vermilion, an upscale restaurant hoping to win over the critical NY food press with an expensive re-launch; and Seamore's, a bold, but risky new seafood restaurant launching this summer.

Series details

• Title: Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2015-05-13
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-07-01
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CNBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 2251

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-05-13; final listed air date 2015-07-01.

Source and licence

Adapted from Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.