BoondoxXx BBQ Nashville, TN A country music snob with an explosive personality turns to Jon for help. Note: The episode was originally supposed to air on November 24, 2013, but was replaced with an encore after the owner was accused of fatally shooting a patron, and then claimed the shooting was in self-defense. However, it aired unintentionally three hours later in a late-night "encore slot" due to a technical/human error.
Nightlife expert Jon Taffer counts down his ten angriest moments from the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
Nightlife expert Jon Taffer counts down his ten toughest rescues from the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
Rhythm & Brews - Staten Island, NY A Staten Island bar that is overrun by customers who are cooking their own food and getting their drinks, due to the employees poor work ethic and the owner's hands off approach in running the bar. Jon must re-ignite the owner's fire and teach the staff why they need to do their own work.
Park 77 - San Francisco, CA A family-owned bar faces shutdown due to a son's excessive drinking and resulting bad management, which leads to a sticky and unclean bar, a staff with no leadership, and questionable decision making. Jon must determine if the son can clean up his act and lead the bar, or if his family should take him off management. Note: This episode debuted on Amazon Prime, the Spike app and on-demand prior to its airing.
The Palace - Upland, California Alexander Siddig and Iddo Goldberg help Jon rescue a Moroccan bar with an identity crisis, due the exterior and interior's conflicting designs. The designs are the least of his worries however, when he discovers a staff untrained in Moroccan foods and a chef who has no cleaning standards.
Club Platinum - Las Vegas, NV A gentleman's club in Las Vegas, Nev., is in need of some gentlemen.
Cap N Odie's Lounge - Atlantic Beach, FL A daughter must grapple with the loss of her father as she struggles to find a way to keep his bar afloat and save his legacy.
Copper Rocket Pub - Maitland, FL Salmonella poisoning invades the famous Copper Rocket while Jon tries to get the owner under control before the rocket explodes.
The Cave Sports Bar - Anaheim, CA A mother and son find themselves at odds on how to save their failing bar; when mom steps away, her son runs the bar into the ground.
Taffer revisits The Local, and finds family turmoil as Mimi is still a thorn in her son's side; Todd and Elise of Mac & Chesters update Taffer on their marriage and bar.
Barley Pop's Bar & Grill - Las Vegas, NV After years of running a successful bar in Las Vegas, all bets are off for an owner who spends more time drinking than running his bar.
Taffer revisits some of his favorite transformations, including the mega-successful Bacon Bar in Vegas, and The Aging Room at Cirivello's.
No Name Saloon - Edgewater, FL A demanding father struggles to hand over the reins to his daughter or control his unruly customers at this failing biker bar in Central Florida.
Phish Heads - Lake City, FL A couple on the verge of bankruptcy battle their stubborn, lazy son before he sinks the family business.
The Airliner - Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA Jon must help reignite a bar owner's passion for his notorious East LA music venue.
Love is in the air when Taffer finds out if the hesitant-to-commit owner of the Badlands is ready for marriage while JP and Edith of La Luz continue to repair their tumultuous relationship after "Bar Rescue."
Blue Water - Jacksonville Beach, FL A Chinese immigrant must come out of his shell and battle his emotional manager in order to save his dream beach bar.
El K'rajo, Centro Comunal Piñones-Loíza and Bienvenidos A Loíza - Loíza, Puerto Rico Jon Taffer heads to Puerto Rico and tries to put time and resources in to rescue not only a bar, but a small community hit hard by two hurricanes.
Fatballs - Jacksonville, FL Jon Taffer tries to rescue a Jacksonville sportsbar with a horrible reputation and an even worse name that leaves the bar without a single customer.
The Wanted Saloon - Dickson, TN Jon heads to middle-of-nowhere Tennessee to rescue The Wanted Saloon, whose remote location is just the first of many challenges.
Jon revisits bars The Tradewinds and 22 Klicks to see if their respective staffs are still working together or falling back into bad habits.
Britestar Tavern - Glendora, CA An absentee owner turns his back while profits go down the drain at his beer-only bar, sinking him into debt.
Island Bar & Grill - Blue Island, IL. An owner staffs his entire bar with only his relatives, causing friction straight down family lines.
Shibō - San Juan, Puerto Rico After 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.
Country Nights - San Antonio, TX Jon 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.
RJ'S Replay - Tucson, AZ Jon 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.
The Original Hideout - Tucson, AZ A pair of brothers can't see eye to eye on how the business is run, so one of them takes a run.
Crossroads Grille - Antioch, TN A twerking, drinking, fighting staff threatens a once-thriving bar, leaving Ashley and Robert Gaddy's future at a crossroads.
UNLV College of Hospitality - Las Vegas, NV Jon puts the future of the service industry to the test when, as a favor to the school's dean, he and his experts help the school's culinary and mixology students prepare for a VIP cocktail party. But when rebuilding the venue proves more difficult than expected, Jon may have run out of time.
The Recovery Room Bar - San Antonio, TX It's time for Jon to shut the party down when he finds a bar and marriage both crippled by the actions of its party-hungry owner.
Kiva Lounge and Bar - San Marcos, TX Two burnout rockers have lost $200,000 just two years into owning their bar. Now Jon has to make them face the music and grow up before their lights turn off for good.
Eliphino - Las Vegas, NV A Las Vegas dive bar with an unused kitchen struggles at the hands of an owner who either can't or won't ask for help and who makes more enemies than friends. Jon Taffer could be his greatest friend and rescue his business... or his worst nightmare if the owner doesn't change his ways.
LIV Bar and Restaurant - Las Vegas, NV LIV owner Michelle can't figure out what her business is in order to survive in highly competitive Las Vegas, especially with a server who's more interested in making huge tips than doing her job properly. Can Jon help steer Michelle in the right direction for success?
The China Grove Trading Post - China Grove, TX When the owners of a country bar, a couple on the brink of retirement, can't stop enabling their belligerent daughter, Jon must get them to face facts.
Gil & Rick's Sports Bar and Pizzeria - Largo, FL Two long-time postal employees' failing pizza bar is on the brink of closing its doors for good unless Jon Taffer can find a way to rescue both the bar and their friendship.
New England's Ale House Grille - Palm Harbor, FL. After being left by her husband, Tara, a newly single mom, hires a general manager not only to help her save a failing bar, but to fill the void in her personal life.
Thunderbolt Bar & Grill - Pleasant Valley, MO Jenny 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.
Whiskey Girl Saloon - Fort Worth, TX To 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.
Harbor Point Club & Grill - Richardson, TX Jon 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.
Drunken Donkey - Lewisville, TX Two best friends are acting more like jackasses than owners and find themselves on the verge of losing their dream.
Buffalo City Bar & Grille - St. Petersburg, FL The daughter of a longtime bar owner steps into his shoes after his abrupt passing. Will she learn the business on the fly or see her father's legacy crumble right under her?
Stix & Stones Bar and Grill - Sugar Creek, MO After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner sees his profits go up in smoke.
Edge of Town - Blue Springs, MO Owners Mark and Ozzie call on Jon for a second time when they need help with their outdated and failing bar The Edge of Town in Blue Springs, MO.
Wildfire Bistro - Aurora, CO A longtime performer who bought a bar to keep his show going must choose between his career and his responsibilities. Jon brings in Ami from the Season 3 rescued bar Solids & Stripes (formerly known as Zanzbar) to do recon.
G.I. Jodi's Bar and Grill - Littleton, CO Jon arrives 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.
The Fifth - Bountiful, UT – The 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.
Jon Taffer embarks on a cross-country tour of the worst drinking establishments in America. Bad drinks, wild staffs and wasted owners conspire against him and his experts as they give failing businesses one last shot at success.
Jon tries to tame three firefighter brothers with mercurial mood swings and help save their sinking Sunnyside, New York, bar before it goes belly up.
A Navy vet finds himself drowning in debt as his Mississippi bar is mismanaged by a friend, and his cook uses the kitchen as his own personal bathroom. Can Jon clean up this dirty South bar? Get the Dirty Truth behind this extremely dirty rescue.
Turtle Bay, a flailing New Orleans bar, gets turned upside down when expert Jon Taffer arrives. Get behind-the-scenes info and funny takeaways on this Bourbon Street bar’s reinvention.
Jon helps absent owner Jeremy Myers face his fears and turn Myerz Pourhouse back into the thriving business it was before a haunting made him ghost his own bar.
Jon goes to Lucky 66 Bowl in Albuquerque, NM, to rescue a family business run by a debt-ridden owner with a reputation for unleashing his hot temper on employees and customers alike.
Jon heads to the Kiva Lounge & Bar in San Marcos, TX, where he confronts its cocky yet inexperienced co-owners and is appalled by their sweaty and shockingly unhygienic cook.
When an old-school Memphis, TN, cigar shop owner opens an adjacent cocktail bar and hires his son as manager, the bar quickly becomes an afterthought.
A Chicago bar attracts more flies than customers, bar expert Jon Taffer steps in to save it before its game over.