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Monica ends up having to choose between a head chef position or the catering business she started with Phoebe. Rachel is close to getting a promotion but tragedy strikes. Chandler and Ross are excited when an old friend is coming to town.

Phoebe and Monica get a van for their catering business. Rachel applies for a job as assistant buyer. An old friend and party wizard wants to visit Ross and Chandler. They are excited like two small children and can hardly sit still but the friend cancels their reunion. Monica wrote her first review and the owner of the restaurant comes to complain about it. Joanna doesn't want to lose a good assistant as Rachel and makes Rachel look bad at the interview for the new job. Rachel wants to quit but Joanna offers her the position of assistant buyer in Joanna's department. Ross and Chandler are depressed because they wanted to party with their friend so Joey offers to take them to party. Monica shows the owner of the bad restaurant how to make a sauce and he wants her as head chef. Joey, Chandler and Ross are out partying but realize they have become adults and are too tired after a few clubs and didn't like it much. Phoebe is really upset because Monica will leave their business buts lets Monica take the job because that's all Monica ever dreamed of. Joanna is hit by a cab and dies. Rachel probably won't get promoted because no one else knew of their agreement. Monica starts at the restaurant and the staff hate her because their relation and ex head chef Emilio got fired.—Anonymous

Monica and Phoebe buy a tacky van for their new catering business (it has a painting of a scantily clad female warrior on the side, and LED lights where her tits would be), but plans are upended when Monica is offered the head chef job at "Alessandro's", a restaurant that she recently trashed in a review (she was filling in for a friend, who is a food critic and offers Monica a part time gig (one night per week)) for a neighborhood paper. Alessandro (Taylor Negron) is angry and meets Monica at her apartment. Monica says she stands by her review as 5 of her friends couldn't eat the food and the waiter carried bread-sticks in their pants. The tomato sauce tasted like tomato juice. She even finds that Alessandro runs an Italian restaurant, but is actually from Italy. She cooks for him to show him what real Italian food looks like. Alessandro likes the food and offer Monica the head chef position, which she accepts. Monica tells Phoebe that she is taking a step back from the catering business. Phoebe is bummed and she leaves, even though Monica offers her the money back. To make it upto Phoebe, Monica offers Phoebe the van with some thoughts around what to do with it. Phoebe realizes how much Monica wants Phoebe to do something with the van and accepts that Monica really wants the Alessandro job. She permits Monica to go for it, with her blessings. Monica joins Alessandro and finds the old head chef (who was fired) was a family member to many people who are still working in the kitchen.

Rachel applies for an assistant buyer job in another Bloomingdale's department, only to be sabotaged during the interview by her boss, Joanna (who is on the hiring committee), who wants to keep Rachel as her assistant. Joanna keeps belittling Rachel's achievements (like implementation of a new filing system), She terms her responsibilities as getting a bagel & coffee for her every morning, and she implies that Rachel is too friendly with her co-workers and mixes work with pleasure. Rachel confronts Joanna (and says that she Joanna thinks so little of her, she will quit her job right away), who then offers to make her an assistant buyer in her department (with her own office and an expense account. She even gives Rachel Sophie (Laura Dean) as her new assistant. Sophie is an useless employee who was Joanna's first assistant). Unfortunately, Joanna meets an untimely end (she was going home and was hit by a cab) before Rachel's promotion takes effect. Rachel is devastated to find that she didn't file any paperwork for her promotion, before she died.

Ross and Chandler are excited when their friend Mike 'Gandalf' Ganderson is coming to town to party all night. Gandalf is known to be throwing the wildest parties and Joey is little offended that the guys think Gandalf is more fun than him.. Ross explains that Gandalf is very unpredictable (for prep they gather their passport, a clean pair of socks and a anti snake venom kit).. One time they woke up on boat and seals were licking their faces. When Gandalf cancels at the last minute, Joey says they can still have a great time, though the guys get beaten down before the night ends. They get really tired after hitting a few night clubs and realize that they don't have the same kind of energy anymore. Music was too loud and Ross used the socks as mittens to avoid touching stuff.