Sandy Digiovanni advances on America’s Next Great Restaurant

America’s Next Great Restaurant premiered last nigh,t and while the dream ended for one contestant from Kansas City, bartender Sandy Digiovanni moved on to the next episode of the reality restaurant show.

The show opens on a loving homage to KFC, Subway and Chipotle with

graphics done in the style of Morgan Spurlock. These are the franchises

that have made America the heavyweight it is today. Host Bobby Flay,

who is a bit like Robert De Niro reading cue cards on Saturday Night Live, tells us that the contestants will be pared down from 21 to 10 over the next hour. It’s going to be Shark Tank meets American Idol, without the dialing in to vote from home.