hotelHotel Impossible · Season 5, Episode 4 · Aired October 28, 2014
Crookston Inn & Convention Center
Crookston, Minnesota
It is still up and running.
What happened after
Official site direct-fetched: live 'Book Today' widget, current contact info, 2026 copyright notice; features Scobey's Pub & Grub restaurant.
What happened on the show
Out in the small northwestern Minnesota city of Crookston, the Crookston Inn was a full-service inn and convention center with an attached pub, the kind of property that anchors business travel, events and banquets for a whole rural region. The episode, Crappy Management, put the blame squarely on the operation rather than the market. A convention-oriented inn in a small city depends on running events, rooms and food service together competently, and management failures ripple across all three. Melchiorri worked the rooms, the event spaces and the restaurant, and pushed management to fix the management problems and deliver the reliable, professional experience that meeting and banquet clients demand. His guidance answered to the show's spine for a multi-part property: get the operation and the leadership right, because a convention center with weak management loses the repeat business that keeps it afloat.
After the cameras left
The Crookston Inn is in good working order. As of our 2026 verification a direct check of the official site shows a live booking widget, current contact information and a 2026 copyright notice, and the property still runs its Scobey's Pub and Grub restaurant, describing itself as recently remodeled. The management-plagued operation the episode found has come out the other side as a functioning, reinvested inn and convention center. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.