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Dennis Fogg, buyer of Uncle Andy's Booth in South Portland, with his 5-year-old granddaughter, Brooklyn Head, aftermost week. Fogg will host a examination affair and ball appearance at The Gold Room in Portland for the admission of the diner's adventure of "Restaurant: Impossible" on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — For two months, the Fogg ancestors has had to accumulate quiet about what went on abaft bankrupt doors during a reality-TV makeover of Uncle Andy’s Diner.
But on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 10 p.m., they’ll bethink the restaurant’s agitated remodeling, forth with a civic Food Network audience.
Owners Dennis and Tina Fogg will host a examination affair for their adventure of “Restaurant: Impossible” at The Gold Room on Warren Avenue in Portland. Dennis, who is additionally a actor comedian, will additionally be allotment of a actor ball appearance at 8:30 p.m., afore the adventure airs.
Reservations for the examination party, accessible for a $5 donation to Maine Charitable Resources, are required; appearance will be capped at 125.
["388"]The episode, alleged “No Bedlam Matter,” was filmed over three canicule in aboriginal June aback “Restaurant: Impossible” took over the adjacency to accord the adept Mill Creek booth a $10,000 makeover.
The Fogg family, which has endemic Uncle Andy’s at 171 Ocean St. for 10 years, appear in May that the restaurant had been called for the show. Despite a loyal following, Tina and Dennis Fogg were both alive additional jobs because their breakfast-and-lunch business was struggling.
Since Uncle Andy’s admirable reopening, Fogg said the business has had an uptick in popularity, with bodies generally endlessly in aloof for a photo. The ancestors is now advancing for the arrival of barter accepted to chase the civic spotlight.
Recent reviews of Uncle Andy’s new card accept been mostly positive, but Fogg said he and his crew, now six advisers larger, sometimes accept agitation befitting up with the business, generally causing continued delay times for customers.
“We’re so busy,” he said. “It’s not like before.”
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The diner’s old accoutrement accustomed Fogg to accomplish his signature animal-shape pancakes and home chips while arise jokes with approved customers. Now that a new window separates diners from the accessible kitchen, Dennis said he “doesn’t get to absorb as much.”
While the ancestors is aflame to see the show, Fogg said he’s additionally nervous, because the producers sometimes advisedly “picked at” affecting triggers during filming to animate ancestors conflict.
“They took a lot of footage,” he said. “It could appear out any way.”
But, he admitted, the pros of actuality on TV accept outweighed the cons.
The added business has accustomed the Foggs to assuredly pay their developed accouchement for alive at the restaurant — they ahead formed aloof for tips. Fogg additionally said the ancestors has paid off debt, and Tina has been able to assignment beneath nights as an Alzheimer’s nurse.
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Fogg has additionally done added traveling than anytime with his actor ball accepted aback filming ended. Now that he has television credits, he said, “You never apperceive what could happen.”
“Restaurant: Impossible” host Robert Irvine’s blow can still be apparent in Uncle Andy’s new card and the diner’s added formal, adapted interior. But $.25 and pieces of the old Uncle Andy’s accept crept aback in.
A angrily able “Customers Wanted: Apply Within” affiche has alternate to the advanced window, forth with a life-size agent of Sheldon Cooper, the appearance played by Jim Parsons on the CBS ball “The Big Bang Theory.”
“People like that stuff,” Fogg said.
Sheldon, however, is cutting a new Uncle Andy’s T-shirt.
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