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Restaurant Featured on Food Network Show Seeing More Customers, Owner Says
Just a few weeks after the Valley Inn appeared on a Food Network show, new and old customers alike are filling the Palos HIlls restaurant.
A Palos Hills restaurant is flush with more customers since it was featured on Food Network's “Restaurant: Impossible.”
A mix of new faces and customers who hadn't been to Valley Inn on 107th Street in some time is making up the rush since the episode aired earlier in October, said Dennis Ristucci, who runs the restaurant.
“A lot of old costumers that had moved away have come back," Dennis said.
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The but the episode didn't air until months later.
The show's host, Robert Irvine, brought his often confrontational style and offered advice on how to overhaul the restaurant.
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"He was really hard on our staff, which was needed," said Becky Ristucci, Dennis' wife, told Palos Patch in earlier this month. "He brought his own chef in and showed the guys in the kitchen new ways."
Dennis said the restaurant has seen a great deal of success since the episode aired.
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