Mystery Diners

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Mystery Diners is an American reality television series that aired on the Food Network from December 14, 2011, to April 27, 2016. The series is hosted by Charles Stiles, the owner of California-based Business Evaluation Services and Mystery Shopper Services.

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Premise The show focuses on the Mystery Diners, an organization led by Charles Stiles that goes undercover at specific restaurants at their owners' requests, and sets up undercover stings and unseen surveillance cameras to catch misbehaving restaurant employees in the act.

Season 9 had Charles Stiles starting to make use of private investigators.

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Controversy around authenticity A disclaimer at the end of the credits reads- “The people and events depicted in this program are real. Certain events may have been re-enacted for dramatic purposes." Lenny's Deli On Mystery Diner (20:54 mark), YouTube

Television reviewer Ben Pobjie wrote " Mystery Diners has achieved enormous success on SBS Food Network despite making no attempt whatsoever to appear convincing. This show, which purports to 'expose' employees of restaurants ripping off their employers, contains so many implausible scenarios, inept actors and transparently fake denouements that it's really quite refreshing." What reality TV needs right now is a dose of dumbness: hello Mystery Diners, Sydney Morning Herald, December 1, 2016

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Episodes

1	8	December 14, 2011	June 29, 2012
2	13	October 19, 2012	January 25, 2013
3	13	April 19, 2013	July 10, 2013
4	13	July 17, 2013	October 9, 2013
5	13	January 6, 2014	March 31, 2014
6	13	April 7, 2014	June 30, 2014
7	13	July 30, 2014	October 13, 2014
8	13	October 13, 2014	January 7, 2015
9	15	February 4, 2015	April 29, 2015
10	14	June 3, 2015	October 21, 2015
11	15	November 4, 2015	April 27, 2016

Green text means the target/s was/were not guilty of the/all crime/s.

Blue text means the target/s was/were guilty of the/a different crimes or was/were tricked into being part of the main crime/s where they were occasionally spared.

Red text means the target/s was/were guilty of the main crime/s and was/were fired or quit.

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Season 1 (2012)

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Season 2 (2012–13)

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Season 3 (2013)

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Season 4 (2013)

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Season 5 (2014)

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Season 6 (2014)

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Season 7 (2014)

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Season 8 (2014–15)

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Season 9 (2015)

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Season 10 (2015)

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Season 11 (2015–2016)

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Production

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Reception

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External links

• Mystery Diners on TV.com
• Business Evaluation Services

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