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Carson Jackson wants nothing more than to move to the city. Life in her small town outside of Chicago isn't enough. But she can't leave her mother and their diner, Teddy's. If she did, she would be doing the exact thing her father did years back. Bailing. Just when things at the diner are plummeting to its lowest point, Carson finds out about a cooking competition which could be the deal of a lifetime. The winner gets $10,000, enough to fix up the diner and move out of their run down house, and a chance to work at one of Chicago's most popular diners, Dot's Diner, for a summer. But at the same time a love story with her friend Daniel starts to bloom. Would she be able to leave him behind for this? And Teddy's gets selected for one of the spots at a weekend long food fest in Chicago. Will this all be good for Carson, or make her life even more complicated?
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