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But asked she was, and this Wednesday evening will appear on “Guy’s Grocery Games,” a Food Network production.

Weybright, 30, executive chef for the family owned restaurant group Grease & Honey, was one of the chef’s selected for the competition “Resolution Royale.”

The premise of the show pits four chefs against each other in three elimination challenge episodes.

In the final episode, the chef who made it through the previous challenges is set one of his or her own: to collect all of the items on a shopping list in two minutes. Each item is awarded $2,000 and if the chef gets every item, the $20,000 grand prize is awarded.

Show representatives first contacted Riki Tagliapietra, vice president, Grease & Honey, about featuring Weybright in autumn of last year. Tagliapietra speculates that the network had spotted the restaurant group through social media postings and reviews.

“It was completely humbling — an experience I never thought I’d do; I’m not a public person,” Weybright said in a recent interview.

“I went through about 20 (phone) interviews,” Weybright said. “They did an extensive background check; they checked my Instagram (food) pictures and asked a lot of questions about my dishes and ingredients.”

When she got to San Francisco where the episode was taped, she found herself with competitors whose backgrounds were very different from her own. “I thought we were going to be on different episodes,” she said.

She described the whole experience as a bit of a blur. “It was a very fast one-and-a-half days of filming.”

Weybright explained that the stage set is a replica of a grocery store. After a quick tour of the set, show host Guy Fieri gave the contestants a pep talk and outlined the parameters of the program.

On “Guy’s Grocery Games,” contestants have 30 minutes to shop, prepare and plate a meal that meets specific episode criteria. In addition to the above, chefs select the plates or other vessels they will use for dish presentation and judging.

Weybright described the show as a cross between a supermarket sweep show and a cooking contest like “Chopped.”

Not usually one to tune into food shows, Weybright prepared by watching previous episodes of the show. “That was my homework one week before filming,” she said.

Important of course was that the specific challenge for the show be kept under wraps until the very last minute before shooting.

“We didn’t know the theme of the show until Guy said ‘Go!’”

In addition to an overall theme, each episode throws in a special challenge that might have to do with food groups or ingredient weight limits.

Challenging enough in a home or even restaurant kitchen, but then throw in lots of lights, cameras and set marks to hit while racing through grocery store aisles in search of ingredients.

“They kept telling us to smile and encouraging us to mutter to ourselves as we ran through the ‘store’ — it was a huge challenge!” she said.

The biggest challenge, Weybright said, was having to put on an A-game outgoing personality. “I am usually shy and reserved so this concept was extremely foreign to me,” she said.

The moment of judging “was really intense” Weybright said. “It was definitely an exciting, fast-paced show.”

Although the show’s challenge theme needs to be kept on ice until viewers tune in Wednesday, suffice it to say that it required chefs to get quite creative with foods fit for a New Year’s Resolution.

To see what Weybright came up with and how she did in the competition, tune into Guy’s Grocery Games” on the Food Network at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

“Originally the plan was to air the episode on New Year’s Day, but they moved it to Dec. 18 since it’s about making resolutions for New Year’s,” explained Tagliapietra.

For those who want to support Weybright in person and/or don’t happen to get the Food Channel, Sazzy B is hosting a viewing party starting at 7:30 p.m. at The Buzz, Sazzy B’s next door sister eatery.

“We’re bringing in a projector from home and hope people come to celebrate our chef who got selected for the show,” Tagliapietra said. “We’re super proud of her!” he said.