Bar Rescue (2011)
Jon Taffer is the Gordon Ramsay of the bar and nightclub business. In each episode, Taffer helps transform a struggling bar into a vibrant, profitable business, utilizing his expertise as a nightlife consultant
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Episode 1 - Put It on Cody’s Tab
Release Date: 2018-03-11A son takes over the failing family business and must battle his belligerent father, a volatile cook, and a filthy kitchen before Jon Taffer shuts it all down.
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Episode 2 - Close, But No Cigar
Release Date: 2018-03-18When an old-school Memphis cigar man takes a stab at the bar business, he discovers hiring his millennial son wasn't quite what he had expected.
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Episode 3 - Weird Science
Release Date: 2018-03-25Two scientists struggle with the correct formula to run a successful bar.
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Episode 4 - Ground Control to Major Jon
Release Date: 2018-04-01Jon visits a Cape Canaveral area bar frequented by local NASA astronauts; Jon attempts to get the bar back off the ground before a mother-daughter feud causes a failure to launch.
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Episode 5 - Mississippi Rears
Release Date: 2018-04-08A Navy vet finds himself in over his head when he relies on his unqualified friend to manage his failing Mississippi dive bar.
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Episode 6 - Back to the Bar: Don't Call It a Comeback
Release Date: 2018-04-15Jon reconnects with bar owners he’s helped in the past to see if they’ve changed their bad habits, which include drinking on the job and being addicted to canned meat.
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Episode 7 - Pole Without a Purpose
Release Date: 2018-04-22A soccer mom turned strip club owner refuses help from her daughter even though she's trained in hospitality management.
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Episode 8 - An Ode to the Cap'n
Release Date: 2018-04-29A daughter must grapple with the loss of her father as she struggles to preserve his legacy and save his bar, Cap'n Odie's Lounge.
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Episode 9 - Crazy Little Thing Called Selman
Release Date: 2018-05-06A frenetic bar owner with no prior bar experience drives the Copper Rocket Pub into the ground by bringing in carnivalesque entertainment.
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Episode 10 - Caving In
Release Date: 2018-05-13The son of hardworking immigrants drives his late father's neighborhood bar into the ground with a poorly planned renovation and a bad over-serving problem.
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Episode 11 - Back to the Bar: Blue in the Frog Face
Release Date: 2018-05-20Taffer revisits The Local and finds family turmoil as Mimi is still a thorn in her son's side, while Todd and Elise of Mac & Chesters update Taffer on their marriage and bar.
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Episode 12 - Down and Out in Las Vegas
Release Date: 2018-06-03Jon provides a wake-up call to the owner of Barley Pop's Bar & Grill, who developed a severe drinking problem after suffering a pair of tragedies.
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Episode 13 - Back to the Bar: The Power of Bacon and Beer
Release Date: 2018-06-10Jon looks back at some of his most successful turnarounds and asks the audience to share some of their favorite rescue memories.
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Episode 14 - Father Knows Best
Release Date: 2018-06-17Jon visits the No Name Saloon, a rowdy biker bar where the owner refuses to trust his daughter's managerial skills.
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Episode 15 - Phishing for Answers
Release Date: 2018-06-24Jon brings in culinary expert Aaron McCargo Jr. and mixologist Mia Mastroianni to help a Florida couple's bar bounce back after years of failure under their son's management.
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Episode 16 - Not Cleared for Takeoff
Release Date: 2018-07-01A storied L.A. music venue has fallen into disarray, and it's up to Jon to revive the apathetic owner's passion for his own business.
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Episode 17 - Back to the Bar: Tough Love
Release Date: 2018-07-08Jon reconnects with bar owners Mark Wilson and Ozzie Ardavani to find out what's in store for their relationship, then checks in with La Luz's Edith and Juan Pablo Martinez.
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Episode 18 - Fish Out of Blue Water
Release Date: 2018-07-15An industrious immigrant with a history of business success bites off more than he can chew when he buys Blue Water and takes a hands-off management approach.
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Episode 19 - Operation Puerto Rico
Release Date: 2018-07-22Jon returns to Puerto Rico, where he used to live, to rescue a bar destroyed by Hurricane Maria and to help revive the rest of the community.
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Episode 20 - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Fatballs
Release Date: 2018-07-29An unappealing name is just the first of many problems plaguing Fatballs Sports Bar & Grill, where Jon must get a belligerent owner to accept responsibility.
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Episode 21 - The Unwanted Saloon
Release Date: 2018-08-05Jon heads to middle-of-nowhere Tennessee to rescue The Wanted Saloon, whose remote location is just the first of many challenges.
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Episode 22 - Back to the Bar: The Tradewinds of Change
Release Date: 2018-08-12Jon revisits bars The Tradewinds and 22 Klicks to see if their respective staffs are still working together or falling back into bad habits.
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Episode 23 - Star Lite, Star Not So Brite
Release Date: 2018-08-19Nostalgia drives a successful bar owner to purchase a dive bar he patronized in his youth, but his focus on his primary business causes the second bar to slide into chaos.
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Episode 24 - There Will Be Family Blood
Release Date: 2018-08-26A novice owner opens a bar to help cover his sister's medical bills, but when he staffs it with his equally inexperienced relatives, the business quickly becomes a money pit.
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Episode 25 - The Lights Come Back in Puerto Rico
Release Date: 2019-03-03After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, a brother and sister find themselves in over their heads in damages to their previously successful Asian fusion restaurant Shibo.
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Episode 26 - Dalia’s Inferno
Release Date: 2019-03-10Jon travels to San Antonio to help a bar owner whose life-of-the-party personality has set the standard for indulgent on-the-job drinking and unprofessional practices.
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Episode 27 - Don’t Cry for Me Jon Taffer
Release Date: 2019-03-17Jon attempts to save sports bar RJ's Replays, which is full of potential but failing due to poor management, and mend the owner's relationships with his wife and parents.
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Episode 28 - Owner on the Run
Release Date: 2019-03-24Jon attempts to rescue The Original Hideout in Tucson, Arizona, despite that owner Ramiro is $300,000 in debt and his brother Raoul is overwhelmed with his management duties.
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Episode 29 - Twerking 9 to 5
Release Date: 2019-03-31A twerking, drinking, fighting staff threatens a once-thriving bar, leaving Ashley and Robert Gaddy's future at a Crossroads.
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Episode 30 - Back to School
Release Date: 2019-04-07Putting the future of the service industry to the test, Jon and the crew help students at UNLV's College of Hospitality prepare for a VIP cocktail party.
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Episode 31 - Tanked and Toasty
Release Date: 2019-04-14The owner of the Recovery Room in San Antonio treats running a bar like a never-ending party, but her reckless ways may soon end the party, her business and her marriage.
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Episode 32 - Miles from Success
Release Date: 2019-04-21Two rockers in need of money decided to open Kiva in a Texas college town, but their inexperience and apathy have cost them $200,000.
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Episode 33 - Uncivil War
Release Date: 2019-04-28Jon attempts to rescue Eliphino, a Las Vegas dive dar struggling because of an owner who makes bad decisions and more enemies than friends.
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Episode 34 - LIV'n on a Prayer
Release Date: 2019-05-05Jon is called in to rescue LIV, a Las Vegas establishment lacking an identity, deprived of leadership and hampered by a chatty waitress with a heavy pour hand.
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Episode 35 - Big Trouble in Little China Grove
Release Date: 2019-05-12The owners of the China Grove Trading Post bought the bar to provide for their daughter's future, but her spoiled, lazy attitude threatens to sink the whole business.
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Episode 36 - Pie Hard
Release Date: 2019-05-19Jon is tasked with rescuing Gil & Rick's, a sports bar and pizzeria run by two surly, inexperienced owners who resent customers actually ordering their subpar pies.
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Episode 37 - Driving Miss Tara
Release Date: 2019-06-02Jon tries to help the owner of New England's Ale House Grille, a single mom who's become reliant on a rude, incompetent manager since her husband left.
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Episode 38 - All Blaze, No Glory
Release Date: 2019-07-14Jenny McCarthy joins Jon to help the Thunderbolt Bar & Grill owner, an inexperienced man with poor leadership skills whose only ally is threatening to withdraw her services.
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Episode 39 - Reckless Roundhouse
Release Date: 2019-07-21To save the Whiskey Girl Saloon in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards, Jon must get an inexperienced co-owner to abandon his hard-partying alter ego, Rick Roundhouse.
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Episode 40 - John and Bert Bought a Bar
Release Date: 2019-07-28Jon tries to fix the negligent behavior at Harbor Point Club & Grill in Richardson, Texas, where owners drink the profits away and the staff struggles to get one order right.
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Episode 41 - Green Walls and Donkey Balls
Release Date: 2019-08-04Two best friends are acting more like jackasses than owners and find themselves on the verge of losing their bar.
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Episode 42 - Doreen's Dilemma
Release Date: 2019-08-11The daughter of a longtime bar owner finds herself saddled with the responsibility of running his business after he abruptly passes away.
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Episode 43 - Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bar
Release Date: 2019-08-18After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner sees his profits go up in smoke.
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Episode 44 - So We Meet Again, Mr. Taffer
Release Date: 2019-08-25Mark and Ozzie face Jon Taffer a second time in hopes that he will rescue another one of their failing bars.
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Episode 45 - The Sound of Failing Music
Release Date: 2019-09-15n affluent Aurora, CO, an undisciplined singer turned bar owner has allowed his bloated ego to destroy his business and family, and Jon's team must repair the damage.
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Episode 46 - Saving G.I. Jodi
Release Date: 2019-09-22Jon arrives in Littleton, Colorado, to find a mother and son at odds over running the haphazardly decorated G.I. Jodi's, which was originally conceived to honor the military.
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Episode 47 - Get Off Your Ass!
Release Date: 2019-09-29The owner of Utah's The Fifth realized too late that running a successful bar wasn't as easy as his dad made it look, and now he's poised to squander his family's legacy.