Food Court Wars (2012– ) User Reviews

Biased

[nlam0088 · 1/10 · 2 October 2013]

Just watched an episode of this show. I've never seen it before. Can Tyler be any more biased? It was apparent from the beginning who was going to win and who HE wanted to win. To one team he said "you guys are great. I really want you to do well!". The other team he simply said "good luck".

The other team didn't have a chance from the start. If it's that apparent on TV, I can't imagine how that team felt knowing they have already lost the battle.

I normally love Food Network shows and I like to give each program a chance before I form an opinion but this one is awful.

A terribly "late to the party" concept

[rmmil · 2/10 · 26 January 2021]

Imagine entering a radio show contest, where the winner gets their own radio show, in 1999. Sure, people still listened to the radio then, but television and the internet made radio not a viable career to earn a living in. No one was starting new radio shows in 1999.

Now imagine that concept, but with food. Food court wars, where the winner gets a "free" mall lease for 1 year, came into existence when malls as a concept were already dying. This game show would've been a great idea, in 1985. Not 2013/2014.

Doing some research, I could not find a single winner who's business was still open, all are listed as "permanently closed" via Google or Yelp. That's really sad, considering most opened new only a few years ago. To be honest, most seemed to have closed within that first year they were opened. And I could not find a single runner up who ever actually opened anything.

Ultimately I think it was just a "too late" show idea, but more importantly, it was also giving a brand new business to people who clearly had no idea what they were doing, and just hoping they...figured it out, somehow? My guess is there was zero after-episode support for these restaurants by the show or Tyler.

To Tyler himself, there was favoritism at play, he clearly wanted one of the two places to win, and those businesses always ended up the winners. The episodes of the show were also very formulaic, with each set of contestants utterly vaguely similar lines to previous ones; this show doesn't hold up to the streaming world, when you watch them back to back and realize how similar they are to each other.