When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

Previously in 1992 44 had only received 2 stars from The New York Times columnist Bryan Miller. Zakarian has also competed as a challenger on Iron Chef America in May 2010 where he faced Masaharu Morimoto and lost with a score of 57 to 43.

Geoffrey Zakarian is an Iron Chef restaurateur television personality and author. He is featured on several television programs on the Food Network including Chopped and in 2011 The Next Iron Chef where he won the right to join Iron Chef America.