What Happened to The Groves Bar & Grill After Mystery Diners?

In 'Catering on the Side' (aired 2012-05-20), Mystery Diners investigators looked into The Groves Bar & Grill in Gilbert after the owner suspected a chef of running a side catering operation on the restaurant's dime. Hidden cameras recorded the chef pulling food and supplies from the restaurant's inventory to prepare orders for an outside catering business he was operating without the owner's knowledge, an arrangement the episode framed as quietly draining the kitchen's food cost. Investigators reviewed the footage with the owner, itemizing the ingredients and equipment that had gone toward the chef's private jobs over a period of weeks, and the episode showed the owner confronting the chef with the recordings on site.

According to Wikipedia's article on the series, citing its sources, later episodes carried an on-screen disclaimer noting that certain depicted events may have been staged or re-enacted for dramatic purposes. Google Places lists the business, recorded there as The Groves Bar and Grill, at 323 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85296, with a business status of permanently closed as checked. No dated news coverage, social-media account, or listing update naming a specific closure date was located for this address, and our records did not include a working website for the business. Google's listing for the location marks it permanently closed. The exact closure date is not known, nor is whether another business has since taken over the Gilbert Road address.