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What Happened to Trends Restaurant After Restaurant Stakeout?

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Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

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whereyoueat.com ·

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What the source shows: A Staten Island restaurant-tracker directory lists this address under the name Trends-CLOSED but shows no explicit closure date and no independent news or social confirmation was found within budget; treated as an unconfirmed lead only.

  • Season / episode Season 2, Episode 1
  • Original air date
  • Address 307 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308

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Note on this show: 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 within the research budget, so the tracker-page reference is treated here only as an unconfirmed lead.

Featured on Restaurant Stakeout

Season / episode
Season 2, Episode 1
Original air date
Episode title
Nobody's Runnin' the Store
What was featured
Italian and seafood restaurant with bar; no clear day-to-day leadership
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Trends Restaurant

Frequently asked questions

Is Trends Restaurant still open in 2026?

Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

What happened to Trends Restaurant 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. Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

Where is Trends Restaurant located?

307 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant Stakeout featured Trends Restaurant?

Season 2, Episode 1 of Restaurant Stakeout, first aired August 29, 2012. The episode is titled “Nobody's Runnin' the Store”.

What do reviews say since Restaurant Stakeout?

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. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Address
307 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308
Venue type
restaurant
Official website
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Sources

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

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