Best friends Mark and Brian figured that buying a restaurant on a boat would be a fun way to turn a profit while hanging out together on the water so they pooled all their resources and bought an aging cruise ship called the "Empress". They were so excited about their new venture that they overlooked the tattered interior and the dated buffet menu and embarked on a journey that would - in the end- leave them flat broke. Today, business is terrible and the disheartened friends can't afford to make the necessary repairs to their crumbling ship. Enter Restaurant Makeover. While top designer Lisa North battles the crew's objections and the challenges of the run-down boat, Executive Chef Brad Long struggles to reinvent the tired buffet menu. Can they save this sinking ship?