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What Happened to Trends Restaurant After Restaurant Stakeout?

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2 Staten Island, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Trends Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Trends (307 Nelson Ave, Great Kills) is marked CLOSED, updated July 2026. A named, dated 2018 Tripadvisor review of the restaurant that succeeded it at the same address, Michael Anthony's, explicitly references the change. How we decide a status →

About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.

What happened after Restaurant Stakeout?

Restaurant Stakeout's second-season premiere, "Nobody's Runnin' the Store," aired August 29, 2012, and featured Willie Degel's crew installing hidden cameras at Trends Restaurant in the Great Kills section of Staten Island. The show's format is built around catching unsupervised staff behavior on camera, which Degel then reviews with the owner to identify management gaps and coach a fix, in this case framed around a restaurant lacking clear day-to-day leadership. Wikipedia's article on Restaurant Stakeout describes the series as staged, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report on producer-directed incidents and coached cast members at several of the show's featured restaurants, a caveat that applies here as well.

Trends operated for years afterward at 307 Nelson Avenue as an Italian and seafood restaurant with a full bar; one visitor comment left on a local restaurant-directory page for the address specifically references having seen the location's hidden-camera footage on Food Network. That directory listing now carries the location's name suffixed "CLOSED," though the page displays no clear closure date and continues to show generic daily hours as if the listing were still live, a known limitation of that kind of aggregator page. No independent news report, business filing, or dated social post confirming an actual closure was found, so the fan site-page reference is treated here only as an unconfirmed lead.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2

Episode 1
Aired
Title: Nobody's Runnin' the Store · What was featured: Italian and seafood restaurant with bar; no clear day-to-day leadership

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. realityblurred.com https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/03/food-network-restaurant-stakeout-fake/
  2. whereyoueat.com https://whereyoueat.com/Trends-CLOSED-new-22322.html
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