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Utah's Lei-Away Leidies may be amateur cooks, but they never feared feeding a crowd while filming the new season of "Great Food Truck Race: Family Face-Off."

With a large Hawaiian-born family — who have made Utah their home — "feeding the masses isn't difficult, it's a regular day for us," said Autumn Prescott, who, along with her mother, Summer Prescott, and aunt Carey Ofahengaue, are one of six teams competing on the culinary reality show, which premieres Sunday, Aug. 28, on Food Network.

This season, each team is made up of three members of the same family with little or no experience running a food truck.

The race kicks off at a theme park in Los Angeles and includes a funnel cake contest, a cooking challenge and bidding war for a prime selling spot in the park. In subsequent weeks, the race continues in Southern California, heading to Ventura County for a strawberry festival, an ostrich egg hunt in Santa Barbara and a roadside attraction challenge in Palm Springs.

Each week the truck that sells the least food goes home until the finale on Catalina Island, where the $50,000 grand prize will be awarded to the last truck standing.

This year's competition includes reality star Vinny Guadagnino, of "Jersey Shore," while another group is led by cheese experts and twin brothers Michael and Charlie Kalish — also known as the "hunks of cheese."

While working with family can sometimes get heated, Ofahengaue and Summer Prescott have worked together for more than 10 years running Lei-Away Leidies, which sells fresh-flower leis for graduations and festivals. "We already work well together and Autumn has no choice but to listen to her mom and aunt," joked Ofahengaue.

The family — which includes dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins and siblings — participated in a reality show pilot that has never been picked up by a network. "When you see us all together, we are pretty comical," Ofahengaue said.

That small bit of exposure, however, caught the attention of Food Network officials, who sought out the Leidies for "Great Food Truck Race."

Ofahengaue, Summer Prescott and their older sister Tara, who is not participating in the show, were raised on the island of Oahu, near the popular North Shore surfing beach. All three came to Utah to attend college and ­stayed in the Beehive to raise their families — although Summer has since moved back to the island.

She described the food truck menu as "Polynesian Fusion," with specialties like grilled meats and barbecue as well as "malasada," a Hawaiian doughnut, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and topped with a coconut guava glaze.

The trio said their biggest concern going into the show was navigating a food truck in unfamiliar territory. They also didn't anticipate the heat level inside their kitchen on wheels.

"When the temperature outside is 100," said Ofahengaue, "it's triple that amount when you are inside the truck trying to cook."