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Chef Ramsay refines his palate.

A group of 20 contestants were transported to Hell's Kitchen in a police-escorted SUV motorcade. After they arrived, Sous Chef Scott introduced himself and Sous Chef Andi to the contestants. He mentioned that his bald head was actually shaved, and he called upon volunteers to have their heads shaved, Tiffany and Guy eventually did, as, it was revealed, Andi's already was. He then called out Danielle and was about to shave her head when Chef Ramsay came on the scene and stopped him. After the break it was then revealed that the two contestants who had their heads shaved were actually friends of Scott's. Further, although Andi's head also appeared to have been shaved, in actuality she was wearing a skin cap, which she removed. The women's team (Red) won the challenge, with five dishes chosen by Chef Ramsay to the men's (Blue) team's three. The chefs who received points for their teams (from the first point to the last point) were Robyn, Roshni, Royce, Justin, Briana, Patrick, Dana and Christina. This is the first time in Hell's Kitchen history that the women won the signature dish team challenge. The red team was treated to a steak BBQ with two of Hell's Kitchen's past winners Rock Harper from Season 3 and Dave Levey from Season 6. The blue team was forced to clean both kitchens as punishment for losing the challenge. Both teams had a whole different perspective of the dinner service; the men's team studied the material given to them and were confident and determined; while the women, most of them spending the night drinking and socializing instead of studying the material, struggled on prep and had their doubts. Briana was called on to name the entrées on the menu, and after a slight hesitation (and some pronunciation mistakes), she was able to correctly identify them. The first ticket came in on the red team, with Roshni starting with the scallops, only serving three portions instead of five. Roshni continually struggled on the scallops and was sent out of the kitchen. Back on the blue team, Royce and Tavon were slow on sending out appetizers. Royce had trouble finding the anchovies for his salads and Tavon served a raw pigeon (Ramsay stating: "This f***ing pigeon is that raw it can fly!"). Justin brought up his scallops, which Chef Ramsay noted how badly prepared they were (thanks to Tavon). After Tavon laughed nervously, in response to Chef Ramsay's behavior, he threw him out of the kitchen, as he did to Royce when he sent up undercooked spaghetti (which rather angered Clemenza, as he knew it was undercooked). Don was wandering around the whole dinner service, doing nothing, much to the later irritation of his teammates. (He was assigned a task for the entrée stage, but as the blue team never reached it he was not given an opportunity to cook.) On the red team, Christina struggled on the entrées, serving undercooked pieces of Beef Wellington to Chef Ramsay. Back on the blue team, Chris brought up a raw onion tart,causing Chef Ramsay to kick the rest of the blue team out of the kitchen. The red team still struggled on the entrées, and Chef Ramsay ultimately ordered them to shut down, and clean up. (The instruction to clean up is unusual normally he is so irritated at such points that he immediately banishes them from the kitchen.) Although both teams failed to serve any entrées and were told to "shut it down", the red team was declared the "winners", as they at least completed their appetizer stage. For the first time in Hell's Kitchen history the blue team failed to serve even a single appetizer during dinner service (the nearest previous occurrence to this had been in the first service of season 4, where that season's blue team eventually served their first appetizers after two hours, only to find that all their customers had walked out). Chef Ramsay asked Patrick for the nominees. The blue team chose Tavon and Don. While Chef Ramsay agreed with the nomination of Tavon, he questioned the team's wisdom of the nomination of Don, saying that he didn't cook any entrées and didn't deserve to be nominated. Ramsay then nominated Royce to take Don's place. Tavon was chosen to leave Hell's Kitchen as he almost single handedly destroyed any chance of the men finishing service. "Tavon may have been an executive chef at 22, but he did little to impress me in his short stay in Hell's Kitchen."