A new series, CONSUMED: THE REAL RESTAURANT BUSINESS, will premiere on 5/13. The season, which consists of 8 hour long shows, will air on Wednesdays at 10p and 1a ET.
Wednesday, 5/13/2015:
10:00 PM CONSUMED: THE REAL RESTAURANT BUSINESS #101 (P) - EAT OR GET EATEN
1:00 AM CONSUMED: THE REAL RESTAURANT BUSINESS #101 - EAT OR GET EATEN
CONSUMED 101: "Eat or Get Eaten"- Premieres Wednesday, May 13 at 10PM ET/PT on CNBC
Three restaurants fight for success on the mean streets of New York. Trend-setting chain The Meatball Shop looks to expand its empire, while Harlem hotspot Melba's searches for new ways to grow. Meanwhile, family-run Ann & Tony's struggles to attract customers in a changing Little Italy.
About "Consumed: The Real Restaurant Business"
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.
The series follows the money as these hot and not-so-hot spots work tirelessly to make a place for themselves in the culinary landscape. Eating may be a pleasure, but making it in the New York restaurant scene is serious business.
About CNBC:
With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD , CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 15 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
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