Restaurant: Impossible

After more than 30 years as a beacon, Josephine's Cooking is one month from closing and co-owner, Victor needs to take over the reins and relieve his aging mother, Josephine.[Food Network]

Robert Irvine heads to Columbia, Mo., to rescue McLanks Family Restaurant from shutting down. The restaurant is run by a single mother and her five adult children who fight constantly.[Food Network]

Robert Irvine heads to Chez Olga in Grand Rapids, Mich., where the struggling Caribbean restaurant's dingy dining room, bland menu and terrible kitchen are tearing apart the mother and daughter who run it.[Food Network]

Robert Irvine is in Nutter Fort, W.Va., at Mike Audia's Restaurant-Catering, an Italian-American-barbecue-family restaurant that has a confused identity and is in for one of the biggest transformations ever. [Food Network]

Robert Irvine comes to the rescue of Al's Seafood in Maryland, a restaurant that has been in the family for more than 60 years and is on the brink of closing its doors.[Food Network]

Robert Irvine is faced with the problem of making a run-of-the-mill diner stand out in the heart of diner country in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. [Food Network]

Robert Irvine heads to Tomahawk, Wisc., to try to save a small-town steakhouse from closing.[Food Network]

Robert travels to Muncie, Ind., where the run-down Madison Street Retro Diner is in dire straits.[Food Network]