Restaurant: Impossible

Chef Robert Irvine heads to Harrisburg, PA, in an effort to try to save Dodge City USA from closing its doors after 30 years of service. He will have to find a way to tackle a Wild West theme that has run its course for decades.

At La Stanza, in Philadelphia, PA, Robert Irvine finds an old-world Italian restaurant being ruined by the owner's young daughter.

Robert Irvine is in Chapin, SC, where a restaurant named Sweet Tea is being run into the ground by its owners. Robert is under enormous pressure to help this restaurant succeed because a father's life savings hangs in the balance.

This downtrodden diner in Stafford, VA, has been in existence for five years and is now on the verge of bankruptcy due to mismanagement, a lack of identity and an overall cleanliness issue.

Robert Irvine is racing to Indianapolis, IN, to help Snooty Fox, a struggling English pub-style restaurant. It's been a mainstay in the city for 28 years, but because of its aging clientele, it likely won't last another eight months.

Robert takes his skills and knowledge to the Nutmeg State of Connecticut.

Chef Robert Irvine travels to Scrimmages restaurant in Wilmington, Delaware, and quickly learns that the phrase "there is no I in team" truly applies here.

Pigs and chickens and goats? Oh my! Robert Irvine visits rural Pipersville, PA, and Mamma D's, a place that is part restaurant, part vineyard and mostly petting zoo.

The Off Street Cafe, a gloomy restaurant in California, is co-owned by the ex-mother and daughter-in-law team of Robin and Rose. Will Robert be able to mend extended family fences get the Off Street Cafe back on track?

Robert hits the trail to San Diego, where he finds the Trails Eatery.

Chef Robert Irvine finds himself walking into a salty sea dog's worst nightmare on this mission to Port Charlotte, Florida, home of the rundown, overly cluttered, kitschy and disgusting Cap'n and the Cowboy restaurant.

Robert Irvine finds himself in a prickly situation as he travels to Strongsville, OH. There he comes face to face with the Mad Cactus restaurant and immediately sees why the cactus is so mad.

Chef Robert Irvine thought he'd seen the worst of America's rundown restaurants, and then he walked into McShane's, in East Syracuse, NY.

Chef Robert Irvine is boiling mad when he arrives at Coffee's Boilin' Pot, advertised as the landmark restaurant in Madisonville, Louisiana. Maybe it once was, but it's clear that this place would be better suited for a landfill.

Chef Robert tackles his biggest challenge to date at the St. James Soup Kitchen.

It's back to school for Chef Robert Irvine as he travels to Canton South High School, in Canton, OH. He's there to help the students of its culinary arts program, which is struggling to survive due to state budget cuts.

Robert heads to Colorado to help a young widow and her failing restaurant.

Hoffman's Bistro and Patisserie's intervention couldn't come soon enough.