The eight remaining Apprentice candidates got a taste of the pizza business tonight in a task that was less about creativity or originality and more about simply moving product to keep the cash register ringing.
With the Net Worth team down to only three players (Angie, Stephanie, and Chris), Trump started off tonight's show by giving them their choice of the remaining Magna members (Bren, Kendra, Craig, Tana, and Alex) to even things out. After a quick conference, Net Worth decided to add Seattle attorney Alex to their ranks. This decision was not entirely surprising, as Alex is in the unique position of being one of the more consistently good candidates while also never really having gone out of his way to distinguish himself. So, while he was a solid acquisition for Magna, he also was not really a threat.
Tonight's challenge was simple. Working with Domino's Pizza, each team was to create a new type of pizza using toppings not currently on the chain's menu. Then, they would bake and sell their creation from mobile restaurants during the lunch rush in Manhattan.
Net Worth
As Project Manager, Stephanie seemed to work more by committee than leadership. The team picked up on Trump's offhand suggestion and decided to create a "Meatball Masterpiece" pizza. To market their creation, they hired models to work the area around their location, which included five NYU dorms, handing out flyers and directing the crowds back toward their street corner.
Chris and Alex took the initiative the day before the actual task to visit a construction site and pre-sell a large order of pizzas. Unfortunately, their good working relationship ended almost as soon as the task started. Chris began to notice that Alex was flirting with many of the female customers rather than running the register. When Alex began chatting up one of the models who had been hired to promote the pizzas, Chris blew a bit of a gasket (not surprising, considering his frequent outbursts in previous weeks), and he and Alex went at it.
During all of this, Stephanie and Angie were off delivering the pizzas that Chris and Alex had sold the day before. They made the horrible decision to take the subway rather than a cab, and they ended up wasting nearly a hour and a half just making the one delivery.
Despite the men's bickering, Net Worth did quite well, bringing in a total of $523.90 for the day.
Magna
In a somewhat humorous turn, Magna ended up with the exact same idea for a pizza as their competition. Project Manager Bren batted around ideas with his team, until Tana drew on her Italian roots and suggested the "Manga Meatball Pie." It certainly says something about Trump's powers of persuasion that both teams quickly picked up on his casual comments to completely drive their creative strategies.
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