Billy's BBQ chain CEO Colin Richmond is looking for a new sauce, likes culinary researcher Zoey McBride's ideas but can't risk the timing and needs the task she was actually set, so her section chief fires her. She enters the food-truck competition which the chain sponsors, and Richmond is on the jury. He proves genuinely interested in healthier, eco-friendlier food, and adores her family recipe for barbecue sauce. While she keeps surviving stages, they bond, also over his beloved dog, and even more, but doubts compromise their budding romance.
Zoey rents a food truck to enter a reality TV competition. Sparks fly between her and the founder of a restaurant, who is also a judge in the contest. Zoey's wants to win, but she suspects he might be after her sauce recipe, not her heart.
