restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 15, Episode 3 · Aired July 27, 2019
McLanks Family Restaurant
Columbia, Missouri
Current status unconfirmed after an independent check. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2019.
On the show
Season 15, Episode 3 · July 27, 2019 · restaurant
episode title: "A Family Restaurant at War"
What happened after
No definitive current-status source found; review-site listings (RestaurantJi, ZMenu) show activity through at least Aug 2025 but nothing dated close to date_checked confirms open vs closed.
What happened on the show
McLanks Family Restaurant on Paris Road in Columbia, Missouri had its fifteenth season episode as a struggling family spot betting on an Irvine reset. McLanks got the show's usual two day rebuild on the show's modest remodeling fund, a tight timeline effort to steady a fading operation. Since no Wikipedia recap covers this episode, the particular trouble Irvine worked on is left out rather than filled with guesswork. The current status is unresolved: review site listings show some activity into 2025, but nothing dated close to our verification pass confirms whether the doors are open or shut, and the local paper's coverage only ties the restaurant to its 2019 appearance. With no definitive signal either way, we treat McLanks as unresolved and hold it for later verification.
After the cameras left
McLanks Family Restaurant has a current status we could not confirm. Review-site listings show activity running through at least the summer of 2025, but none is dated closely enough or definitive enough to establish open versus closed, and a local outlet's post confirmed only the 2019 connection to the show. That leaves the Columbia restaurant unverified. The last dependable marker is that mid-2025 review activity, which points toward operating but does not prove it, and it goes on the re-check list.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.