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Go Inside Flavortown Market: Guy's Grocery Games

Get a behind-the-scenes tour of the supermarket set built for Guy's Grocery Games and find out what it takes to keep it running for real.

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A Real Market Within a TV Set

With the second season of Guy's Grocery Games, the show moved into an all-new market, a set built within a 15,500-square-foot warehouse in Santa Rosa, Calif. But there's nothing fake about this store — it's stocked with more than 20,000 items. And just like any real store, it has a staff that orders the goods and stocks the shelves. Click through to see what happens in just one week to keep this market functioning for the show.
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Quantity and Quality

Every day the store team examines the aisles to determine what items need replenishing or replacement, starting with the produce section, which inevitably will need to be refreshed. The store team's most-important job is making sure the quality of the food is at the highest standard.

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The Routine

Monday morning is a race through the aisles for the store team to get the market up and ready for the competition. Three hours are allotted for restocking and refreshing all sections, including produce, dairy, meat, seafood and the bakery counter.

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Stocking Up on Produce

On Monday the produce order arrives from Nor-Cal Produce, Inc. in West Sacramento consisting of two to three pallets of produce, including fruits, vegetables and herbs. On average the order will contain 40 to 50 different items. In total the produce section has 241 different items.

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