Can’t cook but you want to be part of a restaurant reality show? Your time has come with the arrival of NBC’s United Plates of America. All you need is a good idea for a new restaurant and an audition tape that explains how it would work. Win and you get an ownership interest in a four-unit national chain based on your idea. We say apply now.

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At the new Julio César Chávez Campeones in Mesa, AZ, nobody tells the guys who want to fight to step outside. Instead, combatants are welcome to hop right into the dining room’s full-sized boxing ring to settle their differences. It’s just one of the many unique features of this restaurant-entertainment complex that opened late last year. Chavez is new at the foodservice game, but he knows exactly what his target demographic wants.

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You’ve got until the end of this week to apply for the Union Square Hospitality Group Restaurant Management Scholarship at the French Culinary Institute (FCI) in New York City. It’s a totally free ride, and if USHG boss Danny Meyer thinks it’s a good idea to pay your way to school, who in the restaurant world wouldn’t want to hire you when you get out?

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