New Jersey restaurateur Louis bolts to the West Coast with his mother, Rita, and brother, Alex, after having a liaison with the mobster Joey Gamarra's daughter. The brothers land jobs at Zavatti, a fancy LA resturaunt, where they are unknowingly working with their father, Peter Evans. Meanwhile, Andrea Zavatti decides to break up with her co-worker boyfriend, George, and she creates a spectacle when he proposes to her at her birthday party.