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Hey, "Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars" fans. Tonight, August 16, 2023, another new episode of Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars' current, premiere season 1 did indeed hit the air. Since this one was the finale episode, we finally found out who won this thing at the end of it. Tonight's new episode kicked off with the final three contestants: Caroline D'Amore, Chris Kanik and Lan Ho learning that this final challenge from Gordon would require them to host their own event to showcase their products. Gordon told Chris that he would work on a new marketing campaign to make his smart cups more understandable to the public. Gordon told Lan that she would work to get her coffee packaged in a ready-to-drink form. Gordon told Caroline that she would work on a frozen pizza line to showcase her sauce. All the finalists got an empty retail space and were given 24 hours to get it ready for a public presentation.

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars” on Fox.

A (food) star was born on Fox Wednesday, when Gordon Ramsay picked the winner of his new food business-focused competition series.

Out of the trio of remaining food-and-beverage-industry-entrepreneur competitors — Caroline D’Amore (founder of Pizza Girl), Chris Kanik (founder of Smart Cups) and Lan Ho (founder of Fat Milk) — the celebrity chef revealed he’d selected Kanik as the Season 1 winner of “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.”

Kanik’s prize? A $250,000 personal investment from Ramsay in Kanik’s sustainable-beverage-packaging business, Smart Cups, and Ramsay’s partnership in the endeavor moving forward.

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Ramsay told Kanik that his design, which eliminates the need for traditional liquid-filled products by printing the ingredients inside the plant-based container and only requiring water be added to turn it into a variety of beverages, “could quite honestly change the world.

Gordon Ramsay’s team has been inundated with emails from C-suite execs at food businesses across the U.S. over the past week, following the premiere of his latest Fox competition series, “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.”

With the unscripted series having already shot its first season in its entirety, these people are already itching to get on a potential second season of “Food Stars,” which, in a twist for Ramsay isn’t a show about how well you cook, plate or serve — it’s ultimately about how you play the business game. And the winner gets $250,000 investment from the celebrity chef himself.

“As you know, 68% percent of businesses fail in the first 18 months. And so I have to judge this on the business acumen, but more importantly, the decisions and the quickness of how decisive they need to be in the cutthroat business world,” Ramsay told Variety ahead of...