And she would do it all over again - with one slight change. “Now we’re trying to figure out how to bring back some of our entertainment without impeding on our dining.”īrinkman said she’s grateful for the experience and the makeover. “They took out the pool table, dart boards and karaoke,” she said. Other changes from the makeover may also be rectified, Brinkman added. The only concession to the Monkey’s old menu has been the reappearance of the Caesar salad and Caesar burger, the restaurant’s signature items, Brinkman said. “Out of respect we’ve kept everything on the menu for two weeks.” “Everybody loves the food, and the service has been good,” Brinkman said. Thirty-six hours after the crew started in, the decor was redone, the menu completely changed, and the Monkey opened its doors. From the kitchen to the electrical to the plumbing to the decor to everything, I built it. “They wanted me to be sad through the whole show because I had built this place. “They keep you crying through the whole show,” Brinkman continued. And that’s also what the show is all about. “He saw that right away and dug right through it. “We worked together here and that was becoming a bit of a problem,” she admits. Part of the show, Brinkman said, focuses on her personal relationship with Fox. And he digs deep into your personal life as well as your business life.” “All the way around, from being a hard ass to being soft hearted, he was totally real. “Robert is exactly like he is on TV,” Brinkman said. In addition to dealing with the business side of the restaurants, the show is notorious for digging into the personal lives of their owners. They have to do that for the show, but at some point you’re like, ‘really, are you serious?'” Our kitchen is really clean, but there are things that look old. Now, needless to say, our ice machine is spotlessly beautiful.” “It looked like oil, and it had just been serviced, so that was hard for me to believe that it was in there. “They found black mold in the ice machine,” she said. “He didn’t think I had any passion.”īrinkman said much of the criticism leveled against her was from projects already started by the “Restaurant Impossible” crew, and not for the food.īut Irvine did ding her for the Monkey’s ice machine. That meal service, Donel admits, was a bit of a “train wreck.” And then on the 28th, when Robert Irvine arrived, we had a meal service here.” “It was our surprise to find out that it was going to be a whirlwind from the minute they set up tents to take over. “They don’t tell you anything,” she said. We wanted to get our food back and change it back to what it was before.”Īlthough Brinkman watches the show frequently, she said, she was in the dark about how the process actually works. “In the last four years, since the economy (went bad), we’ve been more of a bar than a restaurant,” Brinkman said.
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