Maple Tree Cafe

What happened after

closed roughly a year after the show; owner (26-year-old Ashley) cited a large catering contract as the reason for closing the storefront; fourth Season 4 closure per the blog's running count

Closure date on record: 2013-11

What happened on the show

Maple Tree Cafe was the cafe Robert Irvine took on in the fourth season in Las Vegas, run by twenty-six-year-old Ashley. Lasting sources keep little of the Maple Tree Cafe taping in Las Vegas, and the Wikipedia list carries no summary text. What the format guaranteed at Maple Tree Cafe was a tasting of the menu, a Las Vegas kitchen check, a reckoning with the owner, and a two-day rebuild of the Las Vegas room before a reopening. The particular dishes and design decisions at Maple Tree Cafe in Las Vegas were never recorded, so we leave those blanks. We would rather report Maple Tree Cafe thin than dress its Las Vegas hour in details no source ever kept. Owner Ashley's youth is the anchor, and the ending carried an unusual twist, a catering pivot, that the aftermath spells out in full.

After the cameras left

The Maple Tree Cafe closed roughly a year after the show, around November 2013, but the reason set it apart. Owner Ashley cited a large catering contract as the cause for closing the storefront, framing the shutdown as a pivot rather than a failure. The show revisited the story in season seven in February 2014, several months after this closure, so that look-back does not imply the cafe reopened; we treat it as a retrospective segment, not evidence of ongoing operation. We rate the closure high confidence.