Mike Audia's Restaurant

What happened after

Closed Jan 28, 2020 (17 years in business) after the building's landlord sold the property; closed about 8 months after its Restaurant: Impossible episode aired.

Closure date on record: 2020-01

What happened on the show

Mike Audia's Restaurant on Buckhannon Pike in Nutter Fort, West Virginia had run for 17 years when it took its fifteenth season slot on the series. Irvine gave the restaurant the show's standard forty eight hour intervention on a purposely small refit budget, working to steady a long tenured local spot. Because the Wikipedia entry omits the Mike Audia's episode, its on air particulars are not pieced together here. The ending came within the year: local station WDTV reported the restaurant closed on January 28, 2020, roughly eight months after the episode aired, after the building's landlord sold the property out from under it. For a business nearly two decades old, the closure stemmed less from the makeover than from losing its lease, a fifteenth season entry undone by real estate rather than the kitchen.

After the cameras left

Mike Audia's Restaurant closed in January 2020, after seventeen years, about eight months after its episode aired. A WDTV article, directly loaded, confirmed the closure with a verbatim statement from owner Mike Audia, and the cause was the building's landlord selling the property rather than a failure of the business itself, so we rate it high confidence. So the Nutter Fort restaurant that had run for seventeen years was closed by a real-estate decision outside the owner's control, its post-show momentum cut short by the loss of its lease.