Mike Guinta and Matt McKeon hired State & Main to completely update their half-century old diner, which had been slated for demolition. Three months later, the diner reopened, and today it packs more than 300 customers a day into a tiny, eight-stool operation.

When Mike Guinta purchased the Bay Way Diner in an industrial section of northern New Jersey in October, 2005, the fifty-year-old building was so caked with grease that it took Guinta and his partner, Matt McKeon, three endless days to clean it up. "The place had been completely run into the ground," says Guinta, who's also a fireman and owner of a 25-rig trucking company. Guinta considered knocking the building down and starting from scratch, but local residents urged him to keep the historical diner intact.

NOT ONLY WAS BAYWAY DINER FEATURED IN ONE OF "DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES" EPISODES BUT JOE'S FAMOUS TRI-COLOR PASTA WITH GRILLED CHICKEN IS ALSO FEATURED IN THE FOOD NETWORK'S STAR GUY FIERI'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK "DINERS, DRIVE-INS, DIVES (AN ALL AMERICAN ROAD TRIP)"