Season 1

After 40 years, Toronto's oldest Hakka restaurant is on the verge of collapse after losing its crowd post-COVID. Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez help two sisters who left successful careers to win back customers before their parents' livelihood and legacy disappears.

A 37-year-old Mexican restaurant suffocates under high-interest debt, delivery apps draining profits, and a hard-headed matriarch clinging to outworn ideas. Her son, a classically trained chef, asks Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez for help filling empty seats and saving his mother's life's work.

Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez must find a way to bring an over-confident young chef with high-end ambitions for his French restaurant back down to earth, illuminating the realities of running a business -- before he runs it into the ground.

A devoted father sinks his retirement savings into the neighborhood bar that shaped his life. But as his loyal customer base literally dies off, he must learn to let go of the past. Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez help him confront his fear of change and allow his daughter to step up to the plate.

The owner of an award-winning Indian restaurant is afraid to face the truth of a silent dining room and mounting bills. Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez help him come clean to his wife and family about the dire state of their business and find his spice for cooking again -- before they are buried under the weight of crushing debt.

A passionate Peruvian father is clinging to old-country recipes and control of his collapsing business while keeping his two sons in the dark. Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez give the tough love necessary to inspire change for a demanding new reality and give his sons the confidence to prove they can take the reins.

Jen Agg and Aarón Sánchez come to the rescue of a proud Italian immigrant who believed that overflowing plates and a full stomach would guarantee a full dining room. But empty tables and disappearing pension funds tell a different story.