restaurantThe Profit · Season 8, Episode 2 · Aired August 17, 2021
Grey Block Pizza
Santa Monica, California
This one survived. It remains in business.
What happened after
Pizza restaurant, still at its original Pico Blvd location.
What happened on the show
Grey Block Pizza was a Santa Monica pizzeria, a neighborhood staple serving creative slices, and the episode framed it as a business that had Marcus's head spinning, a shorthand for the disorder and the puzzle it presented. Like many of the food businesses in the show's final season, it had a genuine local following and a product people liked, paired with the operational and financial trouble that brings owners to the program. Marcus's work on a small pizzeria like this typically meant sorting out the numbers, tightening the operation, and giving a beloved but struggling local spot the structure it needed to be sustainable. The creative slices and the community loyalty were real assets, which made the operational fundamentals the thing that had to be addressed for the shop to keep its place in the neighborhood. It was a compact, food focused case of the kind that filled out the later seasons.
After the cameras left
Grey Block Pizza is still slinging slices. The pizzeria operates from its original Pico Boulevard location in Santa Monica, with an active Facebook page and a DoorDash listing referenced in current search results. The confirmation rests on the social and delivery presence rather than a dated review, so we hold it at medium confidence, but the neighborhood staple the episode profiled is clearly still open at the same address. Open as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.