What Happened to Bobby's Burger Palace After Best Thing I Ever Ate?

"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (episode "Burgers") featured Bobby's Burger Palace's Crunchburger, a beef patty topped with crushed potato chips, lettuce, tomato, and special sauce, part of chef Bobby Flay's build-your-own burger menu. The Paramus location operated as a fast-casual burger restaurant inside the Bergen Town Center mall, one of several New Jersey outposts of Flay's chain. According to Wikipedia (updated 2026-07), several Bobby's Burger Palace outlets closed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Flay later rebranded the concept as Bobby's Burgers, a smaller chain that had eleven locations as of that update, with only one original Bobby's Burger Palace still operating under the earlier name. A Yelp listing updated 2026-05 marks the Bergen Town Center location in Paramus as permanently closed, consistent with Wikipedia's count of remaining locations.