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Customers and supporters crowded into Papa Bob’s BBQ restaurant to watch the premiere of the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food episode featuring the Bonner Springs restaurant.

Barely a seat was left in the restaurant as excitement filled the air in the minutes leading up to the beginning of the show. Once images of Bob Caviar, owner of Papa Bob’s, came on screen, the crowd broke out in applause and cheers as the excitement continued throughout the next 30 minutes of the show.

Adam Richman, host of Man v. Food, visited the restaurant on May 12 to tape the Papa Bob’s episode. Richman was there to battle the Ultimate Destroyer Challenge, a 12-inch sandwich, filled with four and half pounds of meat that must be finished within 45 minutes to claim victory.

The secret about whether or not Richman completed the challenge was kept a secret until Wednesday’s airing.

In the end, Richman was not able to claim victory and Caviar was forced to post a picture of the TV host on the “Wall of Shame” of people unable to finish the beast of a sandwich.

As the show came to an end and the crowd began to dissipate, Caviar took a seat in a booth and expressed his relief to have the show finally aired. With the process beginning in January, when Caviar first found out he was being considered for the show, to keeping the secret of the challenge results, Caviar said it felt good to have the pressure off his shoulders.

But it was the support of his loyal customers that really had him on cloud nine Wednesday night as everyone in the restaurant made their way to his side to offer their congratulations.

“I can’t tell you how happy I am that we were one of the few chosen for the chance to be on a national program,” Caviar said. “Things like this don’t happen every day.”

To read more about the Man v. Food episode featuring Papa Bob’s BBQ, see the Aug. 19 edition of the Chieftain.

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