Game / activity
Can't Beat Kebab
How this one works
How it works
- Boston's number one nautical themed Middle Eastern fusion restaurant.
- We are compelled to integrate your advice into our plan
- automatically out of the running
- you will be hearing every detail that is prepared.
- competing against each other
- It's a health inspector grade, but there's no physical place for him to go inspect.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Expertcontext
Nicky and Smitty's
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- Response context: My brother recently bought a restaurant
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Restaurantwinner
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- Winner statement: Congratulations, Curtis.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Vitz Submarine
I'm putting my tiara on.; I'm waving elegantly to my fans.
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- Ending or payoff: We're going to have an actual submarine.; We're going to charge a thousand dollars a meal and we're going to be classy as shit.; I'm glad to have you as an investor.; I am 100 percent in.
Follow the round structure (1)
Rdesign
Source excerpt ↗ 42:36We are compelled to integrate your advice into our plan
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Ptheme
How are you guys gonna honor the nautical theme; while setting yourself apart?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Themebrad
a merman themed bar.
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- Answer qualification: open from 11 a.m to 7 p.m.; you have to be a male to be a waiter.; women can work in the; back.; They are all dressed as mermans.; Obviously shirtless.; Very very long hair.
- Important beats: They are all wearing tails; the feet are there.; A lot of; training that goes into working here.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Themecurtis
I decided that the best move was to go submarine.
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- Answer qualification: little round aquariums in the wall that look like you're looking out into the ocean.; I just meant that it looks like a submarine.; Saltwater fish.; they're wearing wetsuits.
- Final state summary: a restaurant with like fake windows with like; water in the background, I guess.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Themeryan
In the middle of my restaurant is a giant pool. All of the tables are around the pool side.
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- Answer qualification: The intent is not for you to go into the pool.; This is a nice indoor space.; They're fancy looking.
- Method: It's getting cleaned with like plants or some shit. I don't know that part.
- Response context: You'll get that when we talk about food.
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Poolpurpose
I want to go back to the pool. What is the premise?
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Playout
How are you guys going to arrange your space and serve your guests?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Layoutbrad
an indoor outdoor restaurant.; a bar that's obviously shaped like a merman's tail.; two community tables; 15 pearls seating anywhere from four to six people at each pearl.
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- Answer qualification: The pearl doesn't close.; Not a clam.; It's an open pearl.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Layoutcurtis
it's all indoors.; You kind of speak into that and that's how you give your order.; It's like a flared out horn thing that comes out and you talk into that and it's quaint.
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- Answer qualification: All of the servers will wear pearls. How about that?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Layoutryan
Mine is indoor only; All of my servers are surfers and they surf over to your table and they bring you whatever you ordered.; I think it's like robot powered surfboards, to be honest.
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- Answer qualification: one seat at every table is like a little bit of a risk.; most of the table is not going to get splashed on.; I didn't necessarily say you don't get to go into it.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Pdrinks
How are you going to liquor up your guests?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Drinksbrad
sweet fruity drinks
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- Method: All the mail staff will always have a drink in their hands ready to go.
- Answer qualification: Everyone's going to ask for drinks so much that the ice isn't going to have time to melt.; One drink at a time.; They have another hand, Vitaly.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Drinkscurtis
the Kraken brand spice drum.; You can mix that with Coke.; That's your option.
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- Answer qualification: I'm telling you guys in the pitch meeting, I'm not going to tell the customers that obviously.; I would say absolutely coming right up.; And then I would deliver them a rum and Coke.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Drinksryan
the shark bite
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- Answer qualification: it's a blue drink.; it comes with a shark for some reason.; You could dump in blood somehow.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Drinksresult
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- Winner statement: Somehow Ryan won this round.
- Brad(ley): “Somehow Ryan won this round.”
- Brad(ley): “Congratulations.”
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Pfood
Now, Vit, why don't you tell each of us whether we get to have a soup, a salad, or a side?
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Assignsoup
soup
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Assignside
side
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salad
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Foodbrad
seafood gumbo
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- Answer qualification: I thought about going with a beef stew, but I thought that was a little too obvious.
- Adjudication: Pretty good, actually.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Foodcurtis
homemade octopus flavored chips.
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- Answer qualification: These are top of the line chefs.; We came in to a shit ton of octopi.; And potatoes are cheap.; So we're adding potatoes.
- Selection or action: Do octopi day.; I'll take it.; Done.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Foodryan
seaweed salad that our surfers pick up on their way to your table.
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- Method: we are cultivating some seaweed,; It's seasoned table side.; They scoop and grab it.; at your table, there's like a little prep station
- Answer qualification: It's not what we're known for.
- Response context: You'll get a better understanding of how the pool will come into play.
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Pspecial
So what anachronistic menu item will you feature?
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- Answer qualification: Something that doesn't fit, basically, in this case.
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Assignjamaican
Jamaican
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Assignhawaiian
Hawaiian
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Assignrussian
Russian
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Specialjamaican
C-O-N-G-E-E.
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- Answer qualification: It's like a rice porridge.
- Claim: it became really big in Jamaica.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Specialcurtis
the option of spam or sardine.
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- Method: There's no cooking it.; It's just straight from the can.
- Response context: A guy, a real person I actually saw at lunch today at work.
- Answer qualification: If there was a section in this for a main item, you know, that's what my main would be.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Specialryan
All of our surfer waiters who are in tuxedos are also double agents.
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- Method: So if you say a secret word, they will shoot some borscht out of their sleeve into a bowl that's sitting at the center of the table.
- Answer qualification: I should have done that.
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Pgrades
So, Vitaly, what grades do we get?
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- Adjudication method: It's a health inspector grade, but there's no physical place for him to go inspect.
- Response context: all of us have managed to make it through without getting shut down.
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Pnames
Can we give a restaurant name at least?
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, that's probably a good idea.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Merman's Kebabs
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- Submission type: volunteered restaurant name after permission
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Super Submarine
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- Submission type: volunteered restaurant name after permission
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
The Boston Sea Party.
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Graderyan
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- Adjudication verdict: you're being shut down.
- Result qualification: standing water, sometimes not standing water.; You probably have mold because you have standing water.; You have water putting on customers.
- Score effect method: automatically out of the running
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Gradebrad
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- Adjudication verdict: I'm also shutting you down.
- Result qualification: shirtless guys walking around and they have very long hair.; They also have the merman tails.; I have hair in all my food.
- Score effect method: automatically out of the running
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Gradecurtis
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- Result qualification: So there wasn't really anything too crazy about Curtis's restaurant.; Everything else is like normal.; It's just average.
Round context
- Method: competing against each other
- Final adjudication: Ryan: shut down; Brad: shut down; Curtis: C
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Interaction mode: competing against each other
- Adjudication method: It's a health inspector grade, but there's no physical place for him to go inspect.
- Competitive scoring statement: Captain Kebab's got a C-plus rating.