restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 22, Episode 6 · Aired February 2, 2023
Big Dawg's
Memphis, Tennessee
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 22, Episode 6 · February 2, 2023 · restaurant
episode title: "Hot Doggin' It in Memphis"
What happened after
Active, thriving as of Jan 2026 per Facebook (2,273 likes / 2.3K followers as of March 2025 update); described as having "transformed from a struggling family business into an award-winning hot dog destination."
What happened on the show
There is more human detail than plot to work with here, and we will hold to it honestly. Big Dawg's is a Memphis hot dog restaurant that grew out of a hot dog cart, run by Tyrone Clements with his wife O'Neka and son Chuck, and season 22 caught up with it in the episode Hot Doggin' It in Memphis. The Wikipedia list preserves no synopsis, so we will not invent the beats of the visit. What is safe is only that the show's usual two-day, limited-budget overhaul premise holds, and no more than that. The distinctive documented fact is the family and the origin story, a cart-to-restaurant hot dog business on Thomas Street run by the Clements family, exactly the underdog origin story the episode had to work with.
After the cameras left
Big Dawg's is thriving. As of early 2026 its Facebook presence, more than 2,300 followers strong, describes a business transformed from a struggling family operation into an award-winning hot dog destination at 3057 Thomas Street. We record it as open as of 2026 at medium confidence, a clear survival for the Clements family's cart-to-restaurant story. For a family that built a restaurant out of a hot dog cart, that award-winning framing years later reads as one of the batch's clearest survivals.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.