Mad Cactus: 1 Year After 'Restaurant Impossible' Makeover
Old menu is back, and owner says if TV chef returned, 'I'd lock the door'
It's been a year since TV chef Robert Irvine filmed a Restaurant:Impossible episode for the Food Network at Strongsville's Mad Cactus. The show promised to bring new life to the 27-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant. And? "Hollywood doesn't always know best," owner Tom Krukemeyer said this week. In fact, after an influx when the show aired last fall, business dropped off considerably, with long-time customers lamenting the loss of their favorite meals from the streamlined menu. "It's been a struggle," Krukemeyer said. "Our sales were down, so we listened and we changed." He estimated 95 percent of the old menu is now back, including the return of $3 Steak Night on Mondays, $1.50 tacos on Tuesdays and other old favorites, like 40-cent wings on …
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Texzilla
10:43 pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013
The owners typically blame Irvine or Ramsay when they fail, no surprise since they typically were blaming someone else before the show as well. In general, what I see on these shows are filth, bad food, poor management, tired decor, general ineptitude. How do these places stay open when often they have rats, moldy ice machines, and nastiness in the walkin. Where is the health department? This guy… more ›