Plot

Larry, Jeff and Ted seek a chef for the restaurant. Larry doesn't like Ted's idea. Larry searches and learns things: Cheryl has a new, male, tennis playing pal; wedding gifts a year late are rejected; club soda and salt removes all stains.

Larry, Jeff, and Ted scramble to find a chef for the new restaurant, but Larry doesn't like Ted's recommendation. While trying to find a replacement, Larry learns a few things - Cheryl has a new, male, tennis playing friend, people won't take a wedding gift after a year, and that club soda and salt will get stains out of anything.—halo1k

Restaurant Manager Jim (Jim Staahl) teaches Larry a restaurant tip about stains. club soda and salt will get stains out of anything.

After Chef Randy quits, Larry, Jeff and Ted are searching for a new chef for the soon-to-be-opened restaurant. Randy says that he is afraid of getting bad reviews, and the pressure of the restaurant opening. The team is 3 weeks away from the restaurant opening. Larry doesn't like Ted's recommendation, Josh (Daniel Escobar) his home cook. Ted invites Larry over for dinner for Josh's audition as chef and Larry is not impressed. Larry is angry at Ted that he had already told Josh that he was being officially auditioned for the restaurant. Larry says that they will have to keep looking till they find a chef that they can all agree on. Ted makes Larry tell Josh that he has not been hired for the restaurant. Larry says that the food was a bit too saucy.

Larry becomes tennis partners with Cheryl when he becomes jealous of her current partner, Brad (Brad Hall). Brad is spending all his time with Cheryl, even after the tennis game. Larry tells Cheryl that Brad is a man and is attracted to her and wants to have sex with her. Cheryl disagrees with Larry and says that she won't play with Brad if Larry were to play with her.

But Larry finds it very difficult to keep up with Cheryl. Larry says that Cheryl is grunting with every shot and that is distracting him. Cheryl wants to go to a wedding where Brad is also coming. Larry is angry as he feels Cheryl wanted to go alone with Brad, but later changed her sentence to indicate that both Larry and Cheryl were going together, when Larry guessed that Brad is also coming. She has a mixed tape in her car, given to her by Brad. Larry is angry at Cheryl but is happy when Brad suggests that he knows that a chef, Paul (Paul Reiser), at one of Larry's favorite restaurants, Alsace, is quitting.

Larry and Cheryl are looking for a year-late wedding gift for their friends, Ed (Scott Weintraub) and Melanie Loeb (Carrie Aizley). Melanie & Ed are cold shouldering the Davids at social places and that's injected a sense of urgency into the issue. Larry says it is ridiculous to hold a grudge as they flew all the way to Chicago to attend their wedding.

Larry runs into a Household shop worker (Laura Silverman). He is browsing for the wedding gift, but the shop worker keeps following him trying to make a sale. When Larry asks her to stop as he is not looking to buy anything, she asks Larry to leave. Later, Larry is driving back home with Cheryl & ends up following a car, which was being driven by the household shop worker. She accuses Larry of stalking her. She calls the cops, who pull Larry over. The store girl threatens to complain about Larry to her husband.

Cheryl & Larry buy a $300 bottle of wine & take it to Ed and Melanie's. They refuse to take it, as the wedding was 14 months ago & the cut off is 12 months. Cheryl and Larry then attend the friend's wedding with Brad and later go to Alsace to see the work of their chef. Cheryl brings her $300 bottle of wine. As they are about to toast, the husband of the shop worker girl attacks Larry, which spills wine over Cheryl's top. Brad takes club soda & salt and goes to work over Cheryl's breasts.