Updated: 10:05 AM EST Feb 22, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I'm God fearing, and we're rolling out looking for America's greatest diners. Drive ins and dives. I love him. We all know Guy Fieri as the mayor of Flavor Town on Food Network's diners drive ins and dives, he's known for taking viewers on road trip to restaurants across America. If you like us, you probably wondered if the restaurants featured on the show are as good as he says they are. He's setting the record straight, telling people quote. Not every dish is a plus, but if I don't like it, you won't see it. Yeah, he really does like what he's eating. And this week's issue with people forgetting is sharing his on set secrets, like how he doesn't actually drive that famous nineteen sixty eight Camaro that uses to introduce each restaurant on the show. I know in real life he has a late model silver Chevy Tahoe, totally changing my perspective, Hay says that it's actually the job of a crew member to get the car from one location to the next. He only opens and closes the door on camera. You kind of reveal that in the article, there's also no script, he says. He runs through the restaurant introductions a few times, but that's basically it. He hates to sound contrived, so he just wants to roll in and say it. As he sees. Yeah, he's like the kind of guy that would do that more fun. Fax picks each of the meals featured on his show by focusing on dishes that have a very unique ingredient them or dish that is made in a unique way. Also, after leaving every restaurant, he signs their wall, which I think is so nice touch and the chefs of the restaurants. They get assigned poster as well, which is really nice of him. Yet he also shares the two things he will never eat. I was surprised by this liver and eggs. I mean, I get the liver, but eggs feel like everyone eats eggs. Breakfast. What if you are wondering how I could eat all this food and stay healthy? He brings a juicer on the road to make fruit and vegetable drinks and usually exercises before work, which is obviously not about it. Now he has put about one thousand two hundred restaurants in three hundred and ninety two cities, opening licensed his name out to more than seventy restaurants and starting eleven shows on the Food Network. Getting to a place where you can do all of that was a bit of a journey. Lafayette. He has come such a long way since he first started diners drive ins and dives back in two thousand seven. He landed the show after winning Season two of the next Food Network star. By the way, he has since shot thirty seasons of that show, and he's one of those guys on TV that has done so much. It didn't come easy get, he recalls his first day of set. He wasn't received well by his crew, so he told people When I got out of the car to do the pilot, the crew was like, Who are you? He says he told them that he was the host, and then another guy walked up and asked, Who's that? And someone responded. That's what they sent us. Oh my God, hair. I don't know which is now his signature, but that's what they sent us. Yeah, deflating On the worst day of my life, I was a really funny story, too, So his wife tells people about how when she met him, he had no goatee. His hair was dark. He actually wore suits to work every day. So she jokes that now she looks at him like, Where is that man I married with a hole clean Look, you imagine him even looking at the old bait and switch like boys. She had no idea what store three guy Fieri America knows and loves the mandate that we know and love has helped so many restaurants. That's what keeps him motivated, he tells people. Quote. I started to pick places based off this idea of hard working mom and pop families trying to make a go of some which I love, and it's something he can truly relate to on a personal level. So decades before he became the guy Fieri E. As a kid, he actually sold pretzels from a bicycle cart in California. His parents were clothing store owner, so it kind of comes from that self made business background. You guys can dive deeper into theaters, life on and off the road, and this week's issue of people It's on newsstands Friday. Check it out