restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 21, Episode 3 · Aired May 12, 2022
Forks and Flavors
Kennesaw, Georgia
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 21, Episode 3 · May 12, 2022 · restaurant
episode title: "My Way or the Highway"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Mashed.com: restaurant achieved "a profit increase of 30%" and owners "are now planning on expanding to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas."
What happened on the show
A husband's need to always be right was running the day-to-day into the ground at Forks and Flavors in Kennesaw. Married co-owners David and Darnell were at the center of it, with executive chef David struggling to run his kitchen under his husband's big personality while Darnell's my-way-or-the-highway streak wreaked havoc on the operation, so Irvine had to develop and execute a plan to save the restaurant and the relationship both. Getting two clashing spouses to share the wheel was the real work, and the whole fix was engineered around it. Because the teaser centers on that clash of personalities, not the plates, the account lands on a restaurant whose deepest repair was two partners learning to run it together, the business and the marriage riding on the same forty-eight hours.
After the cameras left
Forks and Flavors turned a real corner. Per Mashed.com the restaurant achieved a 30 percent profit increase after the episode, with the owners planning to expand into Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas. We log it open at medium confidence, the read leaning on that one Mashed piece, one of the season's clearer success stories. For a married couple whose clashing personalities were wrecking the operation, a profit jump and expansion plans make this one of the season's stronger turnarounds, at least as the reporting frames it.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.