A New Battle for the Food Court
South Carolina continues becoming a food destination, and a lot of new restaurants are opening across the state.
One thing you rarely hear, though, is, “I have this great idea for a new restaurant in a mall’s food court.”
It doesn’t mean that nobody’s saying it, and if you’re one of the people who is, now may be your chance to shine as Greenville-native, celebrity chef, television personality, and author Tyler Florence hosts Food Network’s “Food Court Wars.”
With chef, author, and television personality Gordon Ramsay as executive producer, the show features teams battling head-to-head to win a year of mall restaurant space rent free – a prize valued up to $100,000 – and Spartanburg is among the contest cities slated for filming.
The program’s casting group is currently looking for “teams with pre-existing relationships (i.e. friends, family, couples, co-workers) who believe they have the winning formula to successfully run their own locally inspired and original eatery.”
The teams and the concepts must be based on South Carolina.
If you have a team and a vision to open a successful food business, contact FoodCourtWarsCasting@gmail.com with the following information:
- Your name and the name of your teammate(s),
- Recent photos of you and your teammate(s),
- A short bio on you and your teammate(s),
- Resumes for you and your teammate(s),
- The type of eatery you would like to open and how it’s going to be locally inspired/original, and
- Your contact information and current location.
Submissions must be received by March 20.
Who knows? The next Chick-fil-A or Sbarro might just come from the Upstate.
PHOTO CREDIT: Tyler Florence on Twitter
