restaurantThe Profit · Season 7, Episode 1 · Aired November 5, 2019
Dante's Italian Cuisine
Wharton, New Jersey
Yes. This one is still open.
Live address is in Wharton, New Jersey (confidence: probable).
What happened after
BYOB Italian restaurant / brick-oven pizzeria; address resolves to nearby Wharton, NJ (adjacent town) rather than Rockaway proper, but it is the same restaurant.
What happened on the show
Dante's Italian Cuisine was a struggling BYOB Italian spot in New Jersey, and the episode's real subject was a father and son. Marcus set out to teach owner Dante the management skills he lacked, but the recurring obstacle was Dante's loving father Jimmy, who could not learn to stay out of the way. The warning was that unless Jimmy stepped back and let Dante grow up, the restaurant would be cooked. It was a familiar Profit family dynamic, a business held back less by its food than by a parent unable to loosen his grip on his adult child. Marcus's work here centered on developing Dante as a leader while getting Jimmy to trust him with the business, alongside the operational fixes any struggling restaurant needs. The restaurant and the family's investment in it were genuine, which made the generational handoff the thing that had to be navigated for it to survive.
After the cameras left
Dante's is still serving. The BYOB Italian restaurant and brick oven pizzeria operates from Mount Hope Road in Wharton, New Jersey, a town adjacent to the Rockaway location listed in our spine, and appears live across ordering platforms including GrubHub, Seamless, and Yelp. The address difference is worth a spine note, but it is the same restaurant. The family business the episode centered on is clearly still in operation. Medium confidence open as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.