barMystery Diners · Season 3, Episode 11 · Aired June 28, 2013
Stroker's Ice House
Dallas, Texas
This one survived. It remains in business.
What happened after
Bar/grill attached to Strokers Dallas motorcycle dealership at 9310 Harry Hines Blvd; official site shows current hours and live music schedule.
What happened on the show
Rick Fairless ran a biker bar, grill and motorcycle shop in Dallas, and when revenue dipped he and his mother asked Charles Stiles whether the manager who replaced her was the cause. Stiles sent mystery diners Hollie and Justin in as a waitress and a customer. As aired, the manager is merely inattentive, gaming on shift, while two waitresses skim cash behind his back and one, Sammi, is filmed selling stolen motorcycle parts alongside her mechanic boyfriend, Lobo, who works the shop. The confrontation has Rick firing Sammi and Lobo, his mother telling them to take the second waitress along too. Stiles closes with the manager resigning after a demotion. Because Mystery Diners was later accused of staging its confrontations, this chop-shop sting is best framed as broadcast rather than as independently verified.
After the cameras left
Stroker's is still running, part of a going motorcycle concern rather than a fragile restaurant. The bar and grill attached to the Strokers Dallas dealership at 9310 Harry Hines Boulevard lists current hours and a live-music schedule on its own site in our 2026 check. Tied to a working dealership, it was never the standalone business an episode implies is on the brink. It kept its doors open the ordinary way, which is the unremarkable reality behind most of the show's survivors.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.