restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 2, Episode 5 · Aired September 26, 2012
Pita Grill
Hoboken, New Jersey
It closed and is no longer operating.
What happened after
MapQuest lists the location as "CLOSED"; DiningGuide.com separately flags it as "Reported Closed." A second Pita Grill location in Westfield NJ also reportedly closed.
What happened on the show
In Hoboken, Degel staked out the Pita Grill, a Mediterranean spot owned by Nick, and the episode's framing questioned the hiring and management choices behind the counter. The hidden cameras captured the floor unobserved, and as broadcast the footage gave Degel a documented look at how the staff performed when the owner assumed no one was grading them. His confrontation used that evidence to press Nick on the people he had put in place and the systems he had failed to build around them. Degel's fixes ran along the show's usual lines, tighter operations, clearer accountability, and a harder line on standards. The stakeout leaned on the format's central claim, that surveillance exposes the distance between an owner's confidence in his crew and the reality of how that crew behaves once the boss looks away.
After the cameras left
Pita Grill has closed. MapQuest carries the Hoboken location with a closed tag, and a dining directory separately flags it as reported closed. A second Pita Grill location in Westfield reportedly shut as well. The original at 324 Washington Street no longer operates. We hold the verdict at moderate confidence because the strongest signal is an aggregator closed prefix rather than a news article, but the evidence consistently points to closure.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.