Chef Boot Camp

A chef jeopardizes a local favorite spot in Port Jefferson, N.Y.; a chef refuses to change the menu at a seafood restaurant in New Haven, Conn.; a daughter and head chef with no drive for her mom's dream in East Meadow, N.Y.

Chef Cliff Crooks works with a timid chef in Kittery, Maine, whose boss questions his ability to lead, a sloppy and unskilled chef in Horseheads, N.Y., and a chef with an attitude problem in Albany, N.Y.

Chef Cliff Crooks connects with a chef in Connecticut who needs to branch out from wings and burgers, a chef in need of a confidence boost in Long Beach, N.Y., and a restaurant owner suffering from a lack of cooking and restaurant experience.

The chef and co-owner of a soul food restaurant in Albany, N.Y., needs to branch out from her mom's recipes and two chefs need chef Cliff's help finding their passion for food again.

Chef Cliff Crooks mentors a 23-year-old head chef with too much attitude at her family's restaurant, an owner who needs to be more assertive and a former hotel owner who sold the business but stayed on to run the kitchen.

Chef Cliff Crooks helps a first-time head chef in Portland, Maine, understand budgeting; an inexperienced chef at a family restaurant in Scranton, Pa.; a chef in Syracuse, N.Y., whose care eats up time and profits.