Elisa Ung, critic at the Record of Northern New Jersey, talks to local restaurants and finds out if being on reality television shows actually helps them. The general consensus is "a little." Also fun: the owner of The Original Mama Angelo's in North Arlington, NJ accused Food Network's Restaurant Stakeout of faking things: "[T]hey made us stage incidents... They made the staff fight ? it wasn't real. That was upsetting." [The Record]
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