What Happened to Quaker Steak & Lube After Man v. Food? (Pittsburgh, PA)
Man v. Food, Season 1 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Current status
As of October 2026, Quaker Steak & Lube has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: The chain's own website no longer resolves a page for this stadium location (HTTP 404 on a 2026-09-08 check), and Google Places marked the address's listing as temporarily closed as of the same date. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 03
- Aired
- Address 100 Art Rooney Avenue Sec. 109 & Sec. 136, Stadium Great Hall Area, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
- Website thelube.com
- Show map
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What happened after Man v. Food?
Man v. Food (S1E03, aired 2008-12-10) featured Quaker Steak & Lube in Pittsburgh, spotlighting the chain's wing-eating challenge and motorsports-themed dining room. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-13), the chain was founded in 1974 in Sharon, Pennsylvania, built into a former gas station and decorated with license plates and vintage automobiles. This location, a concession stand inside the football stadium at 100 Art Rooney Avenue, operated only on Pittsburgh Steelers game days and concert dates. A site check on 2026-09-08 found no active page for the location on the chain's own website, thelube.com, which returned a 404 error for the stadium address. A Google Places listing for the same address showed a status of temporarily closed as of the same 2026-09-08 check.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- thelube.com http://thelube.com/locations/pennsylvania/heiz-field-pittsburgh/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Steak_%26_Lube
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Record mvf-008 · checked by Cal Marchetti.