restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 20, Episode 11 · Aired March 24, 2022
Daniel, a former NASA physicist
Huntsville, Ala
Current status unconfirmed after an independent check. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2022.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 11 · March 24, 2022 · restaurant
episode title: "It's Not Rocket Science"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Business identity confirmed as "Mizz Juju's," a soul food restaurant, via HBO Max official episode page (S20E11 "It's Not Rocket Science": "his soul food spot, Mizz Juju's, needs Chef Robert Irvine's help"). No independent current-status evidence found; only sources with status claims were banned domains (competitor trackers) - not cited.
What happened on the show
A former NASA physicist figured he could wing the restaurant business, and a decade of failures proved him wrong. Daniel opened the soul-food spot Mizz Juju's in Huntsville, and by the time Irvine arrived it had opened and closed more than once, never made money, and had no equipment, having cost Daniel a broken engagement and his parents' entire retirement savings along the way. A standard rescue would have run from tasting the soul-food menu to a redone room and a fresh service, but the public record is thin, confirming the business identity far more clearly than any on-air specifics. So the account keeps to what is documented, a physicist ten years and a family fortune deep in a restaurant that would not stay open.
After the cameras left
We could not confirm what became of Mizz Juju's. The business identity is documented through the official streaming episode page, but no independent current-status evidence surfaced, and the only sources carrying status claims were banned domains we do not cite. We class it unverifiable and a re-check candidate; the last-confirmed status of the Huntsville soul-food spot is unknown. Until a direct social or news source surfaces, the fate of the physicist's decade-long gamble stays genuinely open in our data, a case we would rather leave unresolved than guess at.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.