Jinny's Kitchen

In Seoul, the stars of the show—except V of BTS, who has other schedules—all gather to speak about the new program. Na PD announces his intent to extend the Youn's Kitchen franchise and introduces the new roles to the cast. Old Youn's Kitchen cast Lee Seo-jin, Jung Yu-mi and Park Seo-joon are promoted to executives while Choi Woo-shik stays an intern since he'll work for the first time in a restaurant. Because of his career, Woo-shik will also join the team in Mexico 2 days after. The main theme for this season is "snack bar", food that is usually sold in Korean streets, which concerns the new boss.

Less than two weeks before opening, the executives meet with chef Lee Won-il to develop the menu and receive lessons in the kitchen. One week later, it's the interns turn to learn, before they fly to Mexico to discover the restaurant and the city the next week. As they test their recipes, do grocery shopping and get the preparations ready, they notice that it takes more time than they expect. They also determine the menu and set the price with the production staff. After an hour of waiting, they get their first customers.

Menu:

• Bulgogi gimbap
• Tuna gimbap
• Fried tofu gimbap
• Ramyeon (classic)
• Cheese ramyeon
• Tteokbokki
• Cheese Tteokbokki
• Corn dog
• Half-and-half corn dog
• Water, sparkling water, coke and sprite (drinks)

The freshly opened Jinny's Kitchen instantly becomes one of the most popular restaurants in Bacalar. Intern Tae-hyung is now in charge on cooking the rice. So to always gain more, new items are added to the menu. On day 2, Woo-shik is back from Atlanta and is immediately thrown in the job. The cast also makes friend with a stray dog they nicknamed Seo Jin.

Additional items:

• Spicy pork gimbap
• Potato corn dog (aka Tater dogs)
• White wine and red wine (drinks)

They end day 2 busily, but it still isn't satisfying enough for the owner Lee Seo-jin. The cast think of a way to increase revenue while matching cultural Korean tradition and create "Jinny's combo". Plus, they add an extra spicy dish to the menu with Mexican tastes in mind. While the amount of tasks of interns Tae-hyung and Woo-shik keeps increasing, they start to feel very tired. The stray dog is renamed Perro (dog in Spanish).

Additional items:

• Korean Sweet Chili Chicken (aka Spicy glazed fried chicken)
• Hellamyeon (extra spicy ramyeon with corn)

After their last three busy days and reaching Seo-jin's goal of 10,000 pesos, the boss gives a well-deserved day off to the team. The team spends time in their villa and on the lake, but when they reopen on Tuesday, they experience an empty restaurant for the first time with empty streets. To attract new customers they start to distribute brochures.

Additional items:

• Fresh juices (apple and pineapple) (drinks)

As the night comes, Seo-jin decide to close early. They try a new dish with rice to follow various customers asks. The cast also discuss new strategies and goals. They discover that stores are closed on Wednesday and hope this will help us attract new customers. The next day, the employees confront Seo-jin on how he changed since becoming the boss. Interns are in charge of grocery shopping alone and take the opportunity to buy shirts in a local shop whilst Seo-jin gives a bilan on his employees.

Additional items:

• Chibap (chicken-mayo rice)
• Fresh watermelon juice (drinks)

Since regular and new customers keep coming, they are quickly fully booked, forced to find extra chairs and the 10,000 goal is unexpectedly reached a second time. Yu-mi show again her meticulous side by helping in the back kitchen when needed. Tired Seo-joon wants to go home. On day 6, Tae-hyung assist the head chef and Woo-shik tries harder in the service.

Additional items:

• Korean hot spicy chicken

The team keeps on dealing with heavy amount of customers. From the first half of the day, they already reach 6,000 pesos mark, leading them to make even better profit. Seeing his employees exhausted, Seo-jin suggest a morning off. To add more rice dishes, they decide to remove the Tteokbokki and the combos menus. Yu-mi offers to be in charge of these new dishes since only two days are left. While the team go jet skiing, Seo-jin go grocery shopping alone. Meanwhile, customers are already waiting in front of the restaurant.

Additional items:

• Bulgogi rice
• Spicy pork rice

For the penultimate day, the team wears the shirts previously bought by the interns and a Jinny's Kitchen patch. Day 7 starts with 3 reservations before opening and even Perro is already waiting in the restaurant. People not only come eating but also order take-outs. A rival restaurant visits Jinny's Kitchen too. So, to cope with the high number of customers they add a new table and a waiting list is created. Yu-mi manage to do 2 gimbap at once while Tae-hyung is suspected of stealing.

With the goal of 12,000 pesos in mind, the crew wears a special t-shirt with the restaurant logo and makes the biggest preparations since the start of the show. Tae-hyung makes his first corn dog. They also prepare a Dalgona game, repopularized by the Netflix series Squid Game. Seo-jin shares that he wants to remove his image of being a money-hungry person but seeing the restaurant running low, he announces that it won't close before they reach at least 10,000 pesos. The restaurant faces a rough start because of the England vs France match during the FIFA World Cup.

During quiet times, Seo-joon trains the interns: Tae-hyung for the corn dog and Woo-shik for the rice dishes. Despite minor mistakes at first, the team quickly handles the numerous orders, leading them to reach the 12,000 pesos goal at the last minute. They happily end the shooting.

The special episode starts with individual bilan interviews with the cast. Then, they reunites after 4 months over a meal and answers questions from viewers. Statistics on the journey, deleted scenes and interviews of customers are revealed. Finally, they play in two teams a traditional Korean board game called Yut Nori to win a luxury bottle of alcool and gift cards. To add to the difficulty, they are required to speak exclusively korean, without saying words from foreign languages. Teams oppose Seo-jin and Yu-mi against the three others.

On September 1st, the cast is invited in the new head office building of Egg is Coming (production company of the show). To strengthen the team spirit, Na PD has organized a retreat in Goseong consisting in a series of games for the cast, with the help of Earth Arcade and 2 Days & 1 Night crew. The CEO of Egg is Coming, Lee Myung-han, also offers them whiskey. The retreat starts with a competition to eat dakgalbi in Chuncheon, opposing the employers against interns and Ye-seul PD. They have to win a quiz, Jegichagi in Misa Gyeongjeong Park and Reverse Rock Paper Scissors in front of the restaurant. The loser has to grill the food for the winner team. Seo-jin doubts the purpose of the retreat that seems to tear them more apart but is ready to give it a chance if the show becomes more successful than Jinny's Kitchen. Finally, a Ddalgi game (Strawberry Game) determine in which room they will each sleep.

The cast ends the day as one united team with a game of completing the sentence to choose their dinner. Tired Woo-shik is particularly struggling. The next day, they are divided again to win gift cards through a speed quiz. They are separated in 3 teams with Woo-shik being in two of them. Then, as one team they play shoe archery, table tennis in doubles and group skipping against the show crew and lose.

The cast reunites in the headquarters of Egg is Coming, meets new cast member Go Min-si, discuss promotions and dishes to serve, and learns about the new restaurant location. Then, days later they learn how to cook the three main dishes with the one-star Michelin Guide chef, Eom Tae-cheol, and practice for days. Gomtang and other pot dishes are set to be the signature dishes to warm the customers in the cold Reykjavík city. Later, they visit their restaurant next to Lake Tjörnin and observe the high prices in Iceland. With a bigger restaurant, they match bigger preparations and plan on opening 3 hours during lunch and dinner time. Seo-jin switches the restaurant motto into "customer is king". Although Seo-jin is proud to have an intern like her, Min-si is advised to take care of herself to avoid being overworked. Woo-shik burns himself but is selected as the first head chef by Seo-jin, thinking there won't be lots of customers. The restaurant becomes unexpectedly busy as soon as opened.

Menu (+ side dish):

• Kkori-gomtang (Korean oxtail soup) (+ Kkakdugi)
• Beef galbijjim (Beef short rib stew) and Spicy beef galbijjim (+ Deep-fried vegetables)
• Dolsot-bibimbap (Korean vegan bibimbap served in hot pot) (+ Laver)

Day 1 sets record as the best start in the franchise with 55 customers served. It becomes hectic in the kitchen as the restaurant is fully booked within minutes and additional orders are made. Woo-shik and Min-si still manage to quickly prepare orders. Yu-mi and Seo-joon occasionally jump in the kitchen to help and serve as a bridge between dining hall and kitchen. They run out of ingredients prepared to last several days and use their 3 hours-break to restart the preparation and grocery shopping. They also don't have enough printed menus. Despite being happy, Seo-jin feels sorry for sending people back without feeding them when they run out of ingredients once again. Seeing his staff tired, he asks them to stop working but Min-si especially won't stop.

Additional items:

• Green plum tea, coke, yuzu tea, yuzu ade, beer, soju and sparkling water (drinks)
• Twibap ice cream (puffed rice and vanilla ice cream topped with sweetened red beans)

After a successful first day reaching 3,260,000 won,^{[note 4]} Woo-shik receives a gold star for his work as head chef. Reserving Seo-joon for weekends, Yu-mi is appointed Chef du jour by Seo-jin making her anxious. Despite having a long queue waiting before opening, Yu-mi and Min-si peacefully deliver ordered dishes with Yu-mi's organization system. When a group of customers decides to pay separately, Seo-jin gets confused and miss one dish. Before the opening on dinner time, people that were turned down the day before came on reservation, leading other waiting customers to follow them. To prevent confusion, they make the decision to stop reservations.

Additional items:

• Omija tea and omija ade (drinks)

Day 2 ends smoothly and the golden star is handed over to Yu-mi. Seo-joon is the designed chef for day 3 and he prepares to introduce his signature dish, Dakgalbi, for dinner. Seo-joon and Min-si are particularly fast in the kitchen. Because of the weekend more people come and the waiting list is quickly completed. Seo-jin and Woo-shik are forced to refuse clients willing to wait, indicating their no reservation policy and the hour of the reopening for dinner.

Additional items:

• Yuja tea (drink)

Seo-jin mistakenly adds one additional order for a table. Seeing that dish left alone in the kitchen, confused Woo-shik serves it to another table. When Yu-mi notices the error, Seo-jin and Woo-shik apologize, give the customers the original dish they ordered and additional gochujang sauce to bring home for free. More than an hour before the restaurant opens for dinner, a queue surrounds the building forcing the cast to speed up preparations. The waiting list is filled in advance and other people are told to stop waiting. When Seo-jin takes the first orders, Woo-shik is still setting up the group table while Seo-joon and Min-si are still doing dishes. Making noodles for the new Dakgalbi menu slower the kitchen a bit. Several fan customers share how they watched the show. The cast finally sees the aurora at night, which lifts their mood and makes them feel like they are in Iceland.

Additional items:

• Dakgalbi (with noodles)
• Sprite (drink)

Min-si shares her opinion on the three chefs. Seo-joon stays the head chef and replaces galbijim by sundubu-jjigae on the menu, a dish his character played in the K-drama Itaewon Class. Seo-jin buys new uniforms. Seo-joon, Woo-shik and Min-si buy groceries while Seo-jin and Yu-mi make kimchi-jjigae for everyone. Some business management changes are made: Seo-jin decides to take order every 10 minutes instead of taking it all at once and Woo-shik makes it easier to wash dishes by letting the plates soak in a container with soapy water. The whole team feels more relaxed thanks to the new systems. Seeing that some dakgalbi dishes were not completely finished, the team decides to just use half a bag of noodles per person.

Additional items:

• Sundubu-jjigae
• Green plum ade, yuja ade (drinks)

The cast and crew prepare a birthday surprise for Woo-shik. Yu-mi resumes her role as head chef, with beef galbijjim, yukjeon bibim-guksu, dolsot-bibimbap and kkori-gomtang on the menu. As a thanks to local people that helped on the Jinny's Ttukbaegi project, the restaurant is accessible on invitation only. In this way, the owner of their lodge (a celebrity chef), a driver, two local coordinators (or interpreters), a pottery studio owner, and a filming coordinators are invited with their family and friends. On the occasion, desserts are served with double ice scoops and with hotteok.

Additional items:

• Yukjeon bibim-guksu

Invitation day continues. For the dinner service, a local interpreter, an electrician, the owner of chairs and several other equipment (with one of them being also the owner of a ramen restaurant). On the next day, Woo-shik takes over the role of head chef, with spicy beef galbijjim, dolsot-bibimbap, kkori-gomtang and ttukbaegi bulggogi on the menu. His motto is to serve generously to warm customers on this cold weather. Seo-jin decides to try a new version of kkori-gomtang. The long waiting line is back, with even returning customers. Several groups of customers are led to share a table. On Yu-mi's advice and after making the crew laugh, Woo-shik prepares several servings of ttukbaegi bulggogi at the same time in one pan, instead of several individual ones, to speed up the dish that takes the longest to make. Seo-joon cooks one non-spicy galbijjim for a customer who is not good with spice. Woo-shik and Seo-jin offer kimchi and gochujang to take home to an American of Korean origin.

Additional items:

• Ttukbaegi bulgogi