restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 22, Episode 7 · Aired February 9, 2023
Walters' Gas & Grill
Opelika, Alabama
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 22, Episode 7 · February 9, 2023 · restaurant
episode title: "Running on Empty"
What happened after
Aggregated listing shows live hours (daily, 6am/7am-7pm range), 4.0-5.0 star ratings across Yelp/TripAdvisor/Chamber of Commerce. A related Facebook page found under the name "Walters' Farm and Catering" (formerly operating the same business) now also offers "catering, casseroles, canned" goods, suggesting a possible service-line expansion or partial pivot alongside the original restaurant.
What happened on the show
Details of the visit are thin, and the current picture is genuinely muddled, so we keep both honest. Walters' Gas and Grill sits on US Highway 80 outside Opelika, Alabama, and was featured in this season 22 episode titled Running on Empty. The Wikipedia list preserves no synopsis, so nothing beyond the format's compressed two-day, limited-budget intervention can honestly be claimed. The distinctive, documented detail here is the concept itself, a gas-and-grill roadside spot, the kind of highway stop the series has taken on more than once, a roadside spot that lives or dies on truckers, locals, and passing traffic rather than any big-city buzz, and any turnaround would have had to reckon with that thin, weather-dependent trade. Beyond that concept and that setting, the episode's particulars are simply not preserved.
After the cameras left
Walters' appears to still be operating, though the picture is unsettled. An aggregated listing shows live daily hours and ratings from 4.0 to 5.0 across Yelp, TripAdvisor and the Chamber of Commerce at 15930 US Highway 80 E, while a related Facebook page under Walters' Farm and Catering now offers catering and canned goods, suggesting either a service-line expansion or a partial pivot. We could not resolve whether that fully replaced the grill, so we record it as open at low confidence and a re-check candidate.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.