Undercover Chef: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Undercover Chef is the hidden camera format where executive chef and restaurateur Mark Estee helps some of America's most desperate and dysfunctional restaurants by going undercover, exposing their dark secrets, then showing them how to create amazing new food and institute best practices.

Estee's techniques are unconventional. He hides 20 cameras throughout each location, assumes a false identity and infiltrates the restaurants to learn how the staffers operate when they don't know they are being watched.

The series tells transformational food stories, shows shocking moments in restaurants and changes lives. These are stories about people who followed their dreams, opened restaurants and have fallen on hard times. The stakes are high but there is also humour in life's struggles. And there is always hope when a team is willing to persevere.

Series details

• Title: Undercover Chef
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2020-07-02
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: Food Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 49028

Cast and credited roles

• Mark Estee — Mark Estee

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2020-07-02; final listed air date 2021-01-11.

Source and licence

Adapted from Undercover Chef 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.