Restaurant Stakeout · S4 E9
A Plate of Soul
Jamaica, Queens, New York
It is still up and running.
The short answer
Active Seamless and Grubhub delivery listings under the same name and address.
What happened on the show
Nikko could not turn a profit at A Plate of Soul, and that was the problem Degel came to Jamaica, Queens, to diagnose. The hidden cameras did the show's usual work, capturing the floor when the owner assumed no one was measuring the operation, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented picture of a Caribbean and soul food room that was busy in effort but starved of profit. His confrontation used that evidence to press Nikko on the systems and pricing that turn work into margin, while his fixes leaned on the operational discipline he prescribes everywhere. The stakeout fit the format's central promise, using surveillance to show an owner precisely where the money was leaking out of a restaurant that should have been making it.
After the cameras left
A Plate of Soul is open. Active Seamless and Grubhub delivery listings carry the Caribbean and soul food restaurant under the same name at the Merrick Boulevard address in Jamaica, Queens, showing current service. The signals came through delivery platforms rather than a direct fetch of the restaurant's own page, so we hold the verdict at moderate confidence, but they point clearly to an operating business. A Queens survivor among the show's later stops.
Location
110-46 Merrick Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11433
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Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.