Max is worried that because of his jambs he can't get into the "special team of the Chef". He adjusts a joint trip to the bathhouse and finds out how the members of this team - Senya, Fedya and even the sous-chef - did at one time.

The boss receives a voucher to the sanatorium as a gift from Elena and "goes to rest". Max is concerned that Ilya, Sasha's former waiter and ex-boyfriend, returns to the restaurant.

Nagiyev is thinking about selling the restaurant. Max realizes that Katya likes it and begins to rejoice at it until Vika returns to the restaurant...

There's a poltergeist in the kitchen! Max is trying to come up with his own dish. Nagiyev appoints Kristina as the art director of the restaurant, but it was an extremely rash decision on his part.

The new owner of Claude Monet forbids the Chef to drink alcohol while working. Max is trying to apologize to Vika for cheating, and Nagiyev is going to divorce his wife.

Elena provides driving services to the Chief. Max negotiates with Sasha about a free relationship. Fedya argues with Senya that he can eat a leather belt.

The chef is trying to prove the advantages of French cuisine and defend Vika. Max is forced to "established" a relationship with Nastya's father. Sasha wants to be close to Max, but not only as a friend.

The famous French chef Voldemar Barani comes to the restaurant "Claude Monet" with a master class. Max agrees to fly to Cyprus with Sasha, but unexpectedly explains himself to Vika. Now he has to give up one of the girls.

Maxim pretends to have lost his memory to start a relationship with Vika. Soon his plan is revealed... Nastya's fights start at the wedding. Nagiyev buys the restaurant with the help of Rodion Sergeevich...

The leader of the Spartak team should come to visit the Chef. Max can't make a choice between Vika and Sasha. Once in the hospital, he hopes to calmly figure everything out, but while there, Max continues to rush "between two fires".

While everyone in the Victor restaurant is preparing for the upcoming wedding of Eleonora Andreevna and Nagiyev, Victor Barinov, under the sensitive guidance of his former mother-in-law, bakes wedding cookies. Unexpectedly, Nagiyev's ex-wife Kristina appears at the celebration.

Another argument between the Chef and Elena spills into morning runs. But they have to measure themselves not with sports achievements, but with health. Nastya brings home a "guy" - a homeless man Rodion Sergeevich. Max and Kostya are not happy with the new neighbor and are trying to survive him.

The chef is "unable" to hold an outdoor banquet - he turns out to be very drunk! Max decides to save the banquet from failure. Staying in the kitchen for the chief, Lyova gets the opportunity to prove himself as a chef.

The boss wants to invite Elena on a date, but is afraid of refusal. With Max's light hand, he learns modern courtship methods. To help Nastya make peace with her father, Kostya has to talk to him "in a manly way".

The boss doesn't like Katya's new boyfriend, and he tries to get rid of him with money. Max has a conflict with the Caucasians. Katya gets into an accident on a motorcycle.

Max becomes a victim of harassment by Christina. He tries to understand what he is more afraid of - the Master's jealousy or the Mistress's anger. The behavior of the Chef in love causes false suspicions among the cooks.

The boss doesn't want to work on television, but he wants to make a big bet on football. He can't get the necessary amount and uses the money to buy black caviar in the hope of getting even. Max thinks that Vika is in love with him and begins to avoid her, which is why Vika lies to Max that she is pregnant.

In "Claude Monet" an inspection from the migration service came. Max, meanwhile, is trying to figure out the recipe for the chef's "branded" pate.

Vika really wants to have a child, but Max is always torn between his wife and his brother's problems. Viktor Petrovich is getting used to the new team. Because of Herman Löw's character, he goes to work at the Arcobaleno restaurant as a sous-chef.

Andrei Mikhailovich, the new owner of the restaurant, saw Rodion Sergeevich in the backyard of the restaurant and wants to hand him over to the police. In a hurry, the chief says that Rodion Sergeevich is his future employee, and takes him to his kitchen. There it turns out that Rodion Sergeevich is a famous businessman who disappeared 3 years ago. Max starts a new relationship with Vika, until Katya quits the kitchen...

Nagiyev needs to learn how to cook urgently. Vika quits the restaurant, and Max uses his chance to get her back.

Max is called to replace the sous-chef during his vacation. In addition to stale products, unplanned guests and drunken cooks, an unexpected offer from the Chef is waiting for him. Kostya and Nastya's parents are seriously alarmed by a strange call: a mysterious stranger demands money in exchange for... Nastya.

Vika offers Max to move in with her. Max will have to figure out if he is ready to live together. Kostya stays in the apartment alone with Nastya. He enjoys the opportunities, but gradually realizes that he is missing something. The chef takes full advantage of the kindness and gentleness of the faithful sous-chef and at the same time sets him up. A cold war begins between old friends.

Doctors forbid the Chef to smoke. In order not to give up the bad habit, he goes for various tricks. Sasha and Nastya hardly get along in Max and Kostya's apartment, and all four of them suffer from it. Senya and Fedya start another argument, which develops into a quarrel, and the sous-chef tries to restore "peace and friendship" in the kitchen.

Igor, a potential new owner, comes to the restaurant. The boss tries to influence the owner's decision, returns his team to work, and loses his job on television. Max tells Vika that they have a free relationship, but soon he has a reason to regret these words.

Katya informs her parents that she is going to go to Paris with Olivier. Nikita and Denis overheard the conversation and are ready to help keep Katya. Meanwhile, Nastya tries to reconcile Kostya with his father, but the reunion of father and son did not happen.

Eva informs Viktor Petrovich that she is expecting a child. Katya meets a childhood friend who has already married and decides to say that she is also getting married soon. Herman continues his attempts to conquer Victoria.

Grandfather Kirill is the main enemy of the restaurant and tries to take revenge on the workers all the time. The persuasions of Nagiyev and the chief do not work. Soon grandfather Kirill dies. Vika moves from her apartment to Nagiyev and leaves the keys to Nastya, who gives them to Max...

Because of the skirmish between the Chef and Vicky, a real war begins between the kitchen and the hall workers. Max is forced to make a choice in favor of one of the parties. A regular visitor of retirement age appears in the restaurant, who is interested not only in French cuisine. The host is preparing for a meeting with a famous Romanian director.

After Viktor Petrovich's anniversary, many people do not wake up alone. German is with Ainura, Katya is with Denis, and Barinov is with his daughter's friend, a waitress Eva. In the evening, there should be a show-kitchen of molecular cuisine in the restaurant, and Katya's important ingredients are missing. Denis is called to help her.

Victor meets his old friend Vladimir (he calls him Volodka in a friendly way), who wants to come to a restaurant for lunch. Victor does not admit that he is no longer a chef, and he has to get out of this situation. Max quarrels with Vika and decides to arrange a "conciliation dinner", for which he steals a bottle of expensive Nagiyev wine from the restaurant bar.

Max is suffering because of Vicky. Nagiyev and his ex-wife Kristina are fighting for the restaurant, trying to find out which of them is the full owner. They want to organize events on the same day in secret from each other. The boss is trying to please both of them...

A new seasonal dish "from the chef" is a dish from Senya. The owner and the chef pay a "friendly visit" to Elena's restaurant, but the chef is hostile. Max is upset that Vika doesn't want to communicate with Nastya and Kostya - he comes up with a way to bring his friends closer.

Max's half-brother, Denis, unexpectedly comes to visit Max and Vika and asks to live for a while. They're trying to get him a job. Nagiyev is looking for a new chef instead of the fired Viktor Petrovich. In the evening, the drunken boss hits Nagiyev by car.

Vika doesn't show her feelings because of breaking up with Max. Katya, Viktor Petrovich's daughter, returns to the Claude Monet restaurant, where the dog's birthday is celebrated on the same day. Taking the opportunity, Barinov throws a cat there and sets up his daughter.

To raise the rating of the restaurant, Vika tries to introduce new ideas, new orders and a new menu, and the chef tries to defend the old ones. Max seeks Vicky's attention persistently and not without results!

The Victor restaurant opens in the five-star boutique hotel "Eleon". The boss has a lot of contradictions with the hotel administrator. Denis wants to propose to Katya at the opening of the restaurant.

Nagiyev tries to win Vicky's favor, but Max is getting jealous. Senya is caught stealing, and not for the first time. Katya is going to leave the restaurant, but she can stay on one condition: if the chef makes her a sous-chef of molecular cuisine. Will the boss adme this condition?

Viktor Petrovich celebrates Elena's consent to become his wife, and the restaurant staff at this time gives free rein to their own fantasies about their soul mates.

Denis got into another "love triangle", full of deception and cunning. Eleonora Andreevna continues to abuse alcohol. Trying to fix it, the chief and Mikhail Dzhekovich call Nagiyev for help. Senya celebrates her birthday on a grand scale, and Lova moves to a hostel with guest workers.

It's Katya's birthday, and everyone wants to please with a gift, even Nagiyev. Christina reports to the hotel at this time. Senya plans fraud with medical insurance all day long, and Nastya and Kostya establish family ties.

Viktor Petrovich is preparing a birthday present for Elena, but everything turns out a little differently. Max thinks that a pimm massage therapist is coming to Vika. Max and Vika are getting divorced.

Elena informs Viktor Petrovich that she is not yet divorced from her ex-husband. Viktor Petrovich takes on the divorce. Maxim helps Vika in front of Eleonora Andreevna. A new waiter appears in the restaurant - Nikita.

Denis is tormented by his conscience because he cheated on Katya, and he is going to confess everything. A "secret customer" stays at the hotel.

Max realizes that he is losing Vika and tries to come up with the perfect plan to get her back, but every plan ends sadly. The main problem is Nagiyev. Kostya and Nastya are arguing about the name of their future baby...

Denis and Katya are going to confess to the whole world and Nikita, but it turns out to be not so easy. A famous Moscow restaurateur offers Leve the position of chef. On this basis, a conflict arises between Lova and Viktor Petrovich. Nastya and Kostya decide to establish the personal life of Kostya's father, Timofey Ilyich.

Max is visited by his grandparents, who know nothing about Max and Vicky's divorce. The chef hires a new cook to spite Eleonora Andreevna, but when he finds out the truth about him, he turns everything in his favor.

Mikhail Dzhekovich tries to get Eleonora Andreevna's attention, remaining a secret admirer. Max meets his first love. Nikita hides from Katya that he has a rich father. The kitchen staff makes fun of Max, and he makes fun of them, not suspecting what it could lead to.

Elena bought Viktor Petrovich a ticket for the Spartak match as a gift, but because of the boss's gambling, they had to celebrate the anniversary in the kitchen of the restaurant. Max gets into a sensitive situation with Eleonora Andreevna.

Katya's old friend, who studied with her in Paris, stays at the hotel exactly at the same time as the Michelin inspector arrives in Moscow. Eleonora Andreevna and the boss decide that this is not a coincidence. Lova decided to introduce mom to Gulya, but accidentally left them alone with each other. Denis and Nikita continue to fight for Katya.

Max, together with Viktor Petrovich, is preparing to check out Vicky from the maternity hospital. They have a conflict with their neighbor. Lova tries to get Guli's attention, but she has false suspicions. Nikita is preparing a romantic surprise for Katya and is looking for a musician.

Vika sets new rules for all kitchen staff. The boss gets angry, but then changes his position. Max is trying to explain himself to Katya and talk to Vika.

Max and Vika go to the registry office to file for divorce. Max stubbornly does not leave attempts to find out who Vica is pregnant with. Katya falls into a depressed state, accompanying him with drinking alcohol.

The boss beats the oligarch in the casino. Max does not leag behind Vicky and returns to work in the kitchen. Marina is jealous of Senya to Katya and gets a job with him.

Sveta provokes an accident in which Katya hits Denis. For Sveta, this is a chance to get closer to Denis, and for him - to explain himself to Katya. Viktor Petrovich read Elena's positive review of competitors' restaurant, which led to a quarrel. Lova's mom decided to find him a new girlfriend. Eleonora Andreevna is depressed because of breaking up with Nagiyev.

Restaurant workers fantasize about what movie about the restaurant they would like to watch. Senya makes an action movie, Fedya makes erotica, Nastya makes a horror movie, and the boss makes a fantasy.

Nikita's father, Andrey Diaghilev, has an appointment at the Victor restaurant. Nikita, taking advantage of the situation, introduces his father to Katya. Upon coming to work, the boss expects a surprise - his brother Valentin came from America. Sveta continues to manipulate Denis, and he suffers because of his feelings for Katya.

Nagiyev wants to return Viktor Petrovich to Claude Monet and comes up with a clever plan. Inspector Michelin is coming to Moscow. Nikita is preparing a romantic evening for Katya, and Maxim gets an unexpected promotion.

A commission comes to the hotel to assign "stars" to the hotel. The chief has to replace Mikhail Dzhekovich before the commission. Max and Kostya are looking for a hypnotizing fraudster who pays with unreal money.

Viktor Petrovich is in a coma, he needs an urgent and expensive operation in Germany. In the absence of the chef, chaos and anarchy reign in the kitchen. Mikhail Dzhekovich's card debt was returned in a very unusual way. Katya can't talk to Nikita...

Denis is trying to earn permission from the boss to meet his daughter. Lova prepared a surprise gift for her mother for her anniversary. Nastya offers Kostya to enroll in sommelier courses, but this makes him drink all the time. German proposes to hold a Halloween-style corporate party in a restaurant, which everyone agrees to. Then he seriously sets up Vika in front of Nagiyev, but soon saves her from dismissal.

Max does not leave attempts to regain Vicky's favor and promises her that he will never lie again. Elena finds an old suit of Viktor Petrovich, which is too small for him, after which Victor makes a bet that he can easily lose weight in a week. Lova falls in love with Gulnara, Ainura's niece.

Elena helps Barinov out of the checkpoint, but under certain conditions. Nagiyev introduces the employees to the new boss, Herman Mikhailovich, who immediately decides to conduct certification.

Max is given an important task - to prepare dinner for all the restaurant staff. Meanwhile, the chef finds out that someone from the restaurant wants to get a job with competitors. Bartender Kostya likes the waitress Nastya. Max decides to help a friend establish a personal life.

The Chief's drunken prank threatens him with severe punishment of the master, but turns into a holiday for the whole team. Max is preparing a luxurious gift for Vicky, but on her birthday he presents her with a completely different "surprise". Nastya offers Kostya to move to a "new stage of relationship", but forgets to specify which one.

Lova, with the help of Max, is trying to arrange a date with Katya. The boss argues with Nagiyev that he can find himself a woman in one day...

Vika demands that Max ask Denis to move out of their apartment. Max wants to get a place as a sous-chef instead of the departed Lova, and Lova is trying to deal with Viktor Petrovich in the new place.

The owner of the hotel Eleonora Andreevna is trying to fire Denis, and Denis can't admit to Katya that he cheated on her.

An Arab sheikh is coming to the hotel. Everyone is trying to please him. One of his wives is blackmailing Katya and the boss. Kostya thinks that the sheikh wants to take Nastya to the harem.

Barinov finds out that he urgently needs to quit his job, otherwise "he can't see the white light", but he dreams of a Michelin star and introduces his own menu in the restaurant, in honor of which he arranges a party. Nikita and Denis make unsuccessful attempts to get Katya back, and the romantic date of Lova and Gulya does not end as both would like.

Elena calls the boss to a meeting with her friends, and the boss has football - Spartak-CSKA. The boss tries to get to the TV by any means, but in the end he is defeated. Because of Nagiyev, Max is working in the kitchen again... though, as a janitor. Maxim is going to quit, but soon he becomes a cook again...

The boss expects to continue the date with Elena. It remains to figure out where to invite her for this. Kostya and Nastya expand their "love horizons". Ilya is trying to get Sasha back.