BlonDee's Bistro & Bar

What happened after

Newsday reported (Feb 5, 2014) that BlonDee's Bistro & Bar in Huntington had closed; it launched in 2012 as "Two Blondes and a Stove" before rebranding and later closing.

Closure date on record: 2014-02

What happened on the show

The Huntington stakeout of BlonDee's Bistro and Bar was framed around ambition, a room that had already reinvented itself once, changing its very name along the way, and still could not find steady ground. Degel's hidden cameras did the show's usual work, capturing the floor unobserved so he could confront management with documented behavior rather than the owner's account. As aired, the surveillance built a case about service and consistency in a bistro that had launched under one name before rebranding. His fixes leaned on the systems and standards resets he brings everywhere. The stakeout fit the format's central promise, using the cameras to show an owner the distance between the polished concept they had imagined and the operation the feed actually recorded.

After the cameras left

BlonDee's Bistro and Bar has closed. Newsday reported in February 2014 that the Huntington business had shut, noting that it had launched in 2012 as Two Blondes and a Stove before rebranding and later closing at the Clinton Avenue address. The local news report with a specific closure timeframe makes this a high confidence closure. A short lived bistro that changed its name once and still ran out of road.