chief's drunken trick threatens him with severe punishment from the Boss, but turns into a holiday for the whole team. Max prepares a luxurious gift for Vicki, but on her birthday he gives her a completely different "surprise". Nastya invites Kostya to move to a "new stage of relations", but forgets to specify which one.

Igor, a potential new owner, comes to the restaurant. chief tries to influence the decision of the owner and returns his team to work, and he himself loses his job on television. Max tells Vika that they have an open relationship, but soon he will have to regret these words.

Kostya and Max get a raise in rent, and Max teaches a friend how to get "left" earnings. The owner is dissatisfied with the income of the restaurant and introduces a regime of "austerity". Chief and Vika want to soften the situation, but their intervention only makes things worse.

A new seasonal dish "from the Chef" is a dish from Senya. The owner and chef pay a "friendly visit" to Elena's restaurant, but there is hostility towards their arrival. Max is upset that Vika does not want to communicate with Nastya and Kostya, and he comes up with a way to bring his friends closer.

The chief thinks that Elena set up the fire safety check at the Monet restaurant. In retaliation, he calls the migration service to the Arcobaleno, but it costs him dearly. Max wants to make Chef's signature pâté and tries to figure out the recipe.

Vika invites Max to move in with her. Max will have to figure out if he is ready for a life together. Kostya stays in the apartment alone with Nastya... The Chef makes full use of the kindness and gentleness of the faithful Sous-chef and sets him up at the same time. A cold war begins between old friends.

The chef is "not able" to hold an off-site banquet on behalf of the owner. Max is trying to save the Chef and the reputation of the restaurant, and at the same time prove to Vika that he is capable of serious deeds. Remaining in the kitchen in charge, the Sous Chef gets the opportunity to show himself and his character.

The boss fights with Elena over a parking space. Subsequently, the quarrel turns into open hostility. Max comes up with a "white lie" for Vicki, for which she also has to pay. Nastya and Kostya are preparing to move on to "real" intimacy in a relationship.

To raise the rating of the restaurant, Vika is trying to introduce new ideas, new procedures and a new menu. And the boss - to defend the old ones. Max seeks Vicki's attention - stubbornly and not in vain.

There was information that a critic who would evaluate this institution should come to the restaurant. Everyone is in some excitement, because it is very difficult to figure out this person.

The boss wants to bet big on football, but he doesn't have the required amount. For this purpose, he uses the money intended for the purchase of black caviar.
Max thinks that Vika is in love with him and begins to avoid her. Upon learning of this, Vika comes up with a way to take revenge on Max.

Chef's ex-wife, Tatyana, brings their daughter to the restaurant and asks Vika to sit with her. But keeping track of little Alice is not so easy even for her own father. Max is assigned to help Louis but is forced to fill in for him. As a result, he comprehends not only the secrets of confectionery.

At a cooking show, the Chef runs into Elena, the "chef" of the Arcobaleno restaurant, which is about to open next door, and makes a bet with her. Elena has to spend the day with Chef's team. On behalf of the Boss, Vika must look after his dog, and through the fault of Max, she must get another one.

Young people can not understand their own attachments. They quarrel, intrigue, push each other's foreheads. But that's why she is young, to follow the path of trial and error.

The chef prepares for the arrival of the check from the SES and organizes cleaning in the kitchen. Max and Kostya accidentally throw away expensive expensive mushrooms. To correct the mistake, friends have to accept the help of a homeless person and render him a favor in return.

Max competes with his colleague in cooking fish. The boss helps him. He wins, but the dish turns out disgusting. Waitress girls can't separate the men.

Max is given an important task - to cook dinner for all the kitchen staff. The chef finds out that someone from the restaurant wants to get a job with competitors, and tries to figure out the "traitor". The bartender Kostya likes the waitress Nastya. Max decides to help a friend improve his personal life.

Max is given the task of unloading the vegetables and killing the goose. The boss prepares a banquet for the judge who has stripped him of his car license. Vika is pursued by a persistent married admirer.

Max gets the opportunity to run the bar, but ends up causing a mess there.
Vika wants to get Max fired and provokes him into a fight with the bartender Kostya.
The chef loses his favorite knife and refuses to cook.

A young chef, Max, comes to Moscow to get a job at the trendy Claude Monet restaurant. But at the interview, he is faced with the ridicule of the team, the bad temper of the chef and art director Vika, with whom he spent the night before. To be accepted into the team, Max will have to prove not only the ability to cook.