Shocking Back to the Bar Discoveries 😱 Bar Rescue 

he used the program to make himself known, and now the public is taking advantage...

When you bounce you see it too. It depends on who the bartender is depends on a big the crowd gets by the free drinks that are handed out.

If you're talking about the Dirty Rooster-turned-Lake Marie Lodge, well, it ain't there no more. It's now a fish tackle/bait shop last I heard.

@@tyrese3745 lol

@@warpedone3711 what?

These bars looking for help, Taffer comes, helps etc, then the bars go back to there old ways. What a slap on the face.

Na it feels like 💰 💰 💰

@@Nedula007 it’s 100% legit. John Taffer even stated that it was real not script or anything when someone recorded him when he was rescuing a bar.

Some of these people don’t actually want Taffer’s help. They have their bar and they know that what they’re doing can work (or at least they think that). They really just want the publicity. I don’t know if they pay for being on the show, but it’s advertising. The remodel is frosting, and a fair amount don’t really want it (which is why they don’t stick to it). Like the one woman said, it attracts curiosity seekers, so just being on the show can boost sales (if even for a while). While these shows are fun (just like Kitchen Nightmares), they’re largely futile. It’s almost impossible to rescue a failing bar. The bar’s reputation is already trashed and an appearance on TV, showing how incompetent the staff is and how disgusting the kitchen is, will do very little in the long run to repair it. You can fix a bar. You can’t fix people if they don’t want fixed. And a lot of them don’t.

Just shows how little they care.

When have a brain and a good heart, it can take you sky high. And those who are ignorant just doom themselves.

Not everyone becomes successful just because they follow Ramsey’s or Taffer’s advice. There’s a lot of real world variables. They just don’t show you the ones that don’t work out. It’s a carefully crafted TV show

@@nicolek7061 they invest a lot into these places so i would bet they air all the ones they can even if they arent that sucessful. The TV episode will make money back regardless.

Not really, Bar rescue has 91 still open 64 closed....many of those 64 follow the remake model just doesnt do enough to turn things around

Not all of them have done good afterwords.

"Slapped upside the head with a fire extinguisher" 🤣

Yeah something seemed odd about asking the owner about the issues like he didn’t have a say in it. I would bet he “let him run it” but was making go back to the old ways and cut costs

Fire extinguisher..bahahhahahhahha

I’m imagining the noise such an assault would make *FT O O N*

Terry should go into business with Steve from headhunters. That's a joke btw.

They were very ungrateful, which is why he took it back.

She's a DIRTY gremlin!!!... THAT'S what happens when you feed em after midnight, in kind of, human form 💩👹🤡

She did NOT want to change, since everything must center around HER. Like she said:" people come for the show, my show with my boobs blablabla" Major ego warning. And, she's going down, she isn't a good looking 23 year old any longer but she hasn't realized it yet. (I am a 52 year old female myself.)

A close friend of mine bought a bar 7 years ago. They had a real great kitchen. Nice and big and good equipment. After Covid he closed it because he wasn’t able to make enough off of it to pay the two cooks. And on busy band nights it tied up the waitress and bartenders to much to take orders. It is a tough thing and have to find a balance. Especially now with 20 and 30 somethings not being willing to work. I do the grill at our VFW for years now. Some nights can do a thousand dollars. But half the time it is zero to 50 bucks. I would love to get some of the wonderful equipment Jon brings for our VFW. But Jon makes most these folks pay for the renovations, if he does them and pay for kitchen equipment. He gets folks to give one year free software and junk like that. But if place keeps it they are stuck paying for it and that is if the company still in business.

​@@NickanMPreach, Honey. 😂❤

It'd be 6 hours long

@notyuu stats?

I have been to 2 of them the one that had the horse shit in the bar awesome place and Moonshine Runners which has opened 2 more bars under the brand

@@caseybass5544 Oh shit, Moonshine Runners is a franchise now?

@@caseybass5544 oh shit. I thought for sure Moonshine Runners would have flopped. I'm happy to hear they exploded into a franchise.

The owner so idiotic drunk egotistical it is pathetic, thank God his bar was shutting down.

I can't name anyone who likes canned cheese over fresh cooked cheese

i worked at a casino and they served canned cheese on fries. i checked the ingredients i saw no dairy what so ever in it. i at least expect non milk powder or something. we kept it at room temp in dry storage. sh*t was so gross that even some customers didn't like it. unfortunately, i worked third shift, meaning lot of drunks who did like it..

@@donovanwick9278 yick

Serves the guy

well, it is a tv show. he's not doing immense research of every location for months at a time to really understand what they need. like a professional consultant would do. this is just drama for tv, he doesnt really care if they improve or not. it's not his money.

@@justinc4782 well... he's gonna have to... Problem is his name is out on these places meaning if it fails with his changes, it could be blamed on him and his reputation is damaged. Worse, if it's exposed, it could lead to lower rating and a canceled show and business like mystery dinners.

@@justinc4782 the people that aren’t enthusiastic are there for a reason they aren’t willing to give it a try. If you go in telling yourself this gimmick Jon taff isn’t gonna work. It isn’t gonna work

LMAO....he isn't respected in the bar industry. He's an actor on the Spike channel for fux sake.

@@floordoctor You should do some research.

Frozen pizza is meant for home use, not restaurant use.

@@Dragoon1809 exactly

Frozen pizza sux

@@Elleoaqua its personal preference

It definitely can depend on the bar! My favorite local bar in college had a great Pint and Pizza night with frozen crusts. They didn't have many food options though, so having a full menu definitely can't supporr crappy frozen pizza.

Lonnie is delusional hippie that would give away drinks n food to hippie freinds. Hippie concept dosent work in a bar. Hippies consider bars part of the establishment .sorry dont care for hippies

All true, but I think her son actually understood how to run a business.

Jordan should have took over for sure

Yes Lonnie just is resistant to change after all Jon did and she sign the note about not changing the name for one year and then changes it back? 😮

Granted the one the show brought in was a little odd, but yes especially in Chicago!

"it's good frozen pizza"😉

@@user-sg9mg6cn2c Yeah, to cook in your kitchen at home, never at a bar/restaurant establishment.

I think if the place is a shithole anyways, and you TELL customers its frozen so they know, and you only make a modest profit on it, you might as well go with the frozen. The number of bars with a proper pizza oven is TINY so I say, if you are gonna bother to do something, DO IT RIGHT, or don't do it. Customers won't like it, and it won't sell, so what's the point?

Most definitely

What's your family bar/nightclub name?

And that's for sure!

After seeing that episode, it turns out that what Gary & the staff were saying about Terry was true. Terry wanted nothing that Jon suggested and took away any power that Gary had. His pride was more important than his business. "'Pride goeth before a fall.' Always remember your proverbs." -George Carlin

Sure but enough with the messenger caps

@@heaintloveu no. They stay

No we good

Lmao is this Phil or Lisa Marie??? 🤣🤣

His flat cap drives me crazy 🤤

And the only reason why they get an increase in business (while sticking to their old ways) is because they were featured on the show and that caused people to come and check it out.

@@toastedtoastontoast which is why theyre closed like the marie lodge one closed years ago

Well he makes more money on the show than he would ever bailing out these shit bars, so no loss on him.

​@Illier1 I look at it the same way. He doesn't do this because he enjoys sinking money into these shit holes and putting up with the retarded owners who consistently selfdestruct their lives and th3 lives of the ppl around them. he does it because he's getting truckloads of money from the show and w.e other deals he makes with the people off camera.. I agree that it's a smack in the face but why would he actually give a shit if their bar goes under because they are incapable of following directions.

haha what he gets in return is a successful show. Fine, it’s how he makes his living. Let’s not pretend he actually cares about the businesses, if he gets pissed about them stuffing up again it’s because of an ego thing. But then again, the stuff ups are also more views, like this.

Doesn't matter so long as they like it. A drunk person doesn't want fancy shit.

@@thurizaz795 you'd consider real cheese "fancy?"

@@thurizaz795 frosty the canned cheese eater 😂

My point was just that drunk ppl eat shit. You don't see sober ppl eating microwave chicken rolls at 7/11 but drunk ppl love them. So if the boozed up customers like the shit nachos, give them what they want. Also, I don't think canned cheese even exists in Australia but if it did, fuck no I wouldn't eat it. Shit, I wouldn't eat alot of cheese that's made for the US market.

Almost blackout drunk I can't see anyone saying that the food is good

It wasn't their fault that they lost their liquor license. The county rescinded all liquor licenses for establishments that were not in an Incorporated area. That is what took away their liquor license

@@christopherfowler9777 disturbing that is allowed to happen... but it's only getting worse

Should’ve sued right there on the spot

He needs help

And the worst part is, he didn't care that he was damaging the property even more.

😭😭I didn't even notice that thank you lmfaoo

Yeah then turned around and apepars to just walk away like not even acknowledged it.

Fr its so fucked up that Jon LITERLLY saved there business for them to change everything back :/

Showbiz is showbiz.

It's a adult bar, with all that means. If it works it works. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, and thats what matters.

@@philcooper279 How does over $100,000 of debt sound to you?

@@philcooper279 you sound delusional please don’t own a bar

Yes

im checking for flies or black specks in my drink

Me: *SpongeBob meme* aight. Time to head out.

"DON'T EAT THAT SH**!!!"

Lol this is why you wont catch me doing that lol

There are more that failed because of Jons changes. They loose their regulars who pay the bills. They also go bigger in debt because Jon makes them pay for a lot of the improvements. When they are already buried deep. At least Gordon had show and companies pay for the improvements. Jon has a very very bad track record. His bars are in tourists areas. He doesn’t have any in small towns or working class ares.

@@salvagemonster3612 This is the dumbest comment I have seen in a while their BUSINESS plan has been failing some of these people let's be real are well over a mill in debt they have no choice but to listen to John who ends up massively improving their sales an their business. The guy is known worldwide for fixing up bars and making them successful. Jesus please don't breed ffs

“It froze over the winter and we didn’t know how to fix it” do….do these people not know what melting is?

“Natural spring” more like stagnant water.

@@paulfuray8557 no, it's more like sewege

Most natural spring water is really tap water "In reality, most spring water is not actually bottled at the source, but rather, is pumped into large tanker trucks from the source to be transported to the bottling facility. ... Once the water is at the bottling facility, it goes through a carbon filtration process to remove the chlorine."

@@Elleoaqua who gives a shit

yo mama

Bar owners who drink on the job typically own failing bars...go figure.

Facts 👍 I had a college buddy that bought the bar that he basically lived at. It didn't last too long. Pretty sad , he would get so blasted he would sleep in the bar.

They owned failing bars, brought in a guy who knows the business better than pretty much anyone, threw away everything he did, then have the nerve to say Jon doesn't know what he is talking about...as their business goes on to then close for good.

Then he calls them back for a second rescue

Who goes to a nudey bar for the food?

You are not alone.

I pretty much don't even eat at restaurants and haven't for many years. Back in the last century, I hired on to manage a Mrs Fields cookie store. I started walking through the store and as soon as I open the walk-in refrigerator, I see mold growing from the floor halfway up the wall to the ceiling. I then go look at the meat slicer because the store also was like a deli that sold cold sandwiches like roast beef and ham and cheese and things of that nature. Well the meat slicer was on a rolling cart over by the wall and as I roll the cart out away from the wall I immediately see food art 😏 because nobody in this business would roll the meat slicer away from the wall after using it to where all the shavings from the meat would end up on the wall 🙄. I then look at the meat slicer specifically and the front of the slicer was clean and then I turned it around and looked at the back side of the blade and saw where the wall art was coming from because there was about 2 in of old dried meat on the back of the blade that had been accumulating for probably at least 6 months. Now I'm with the district manager and I asked him what was going on and he told me that it was their policy that if one of their restaurants was shut down by the health department that it was no big deal because they would shut down for 24 hours and bring in two employees from each of their other stores in the area which meant there would be about 10 employees in there to do an all night clean job on the restaurant to where the next day the health department would pass it and then it would be back to business as usual until the next time that the health department shut them down 😱. I told him if that was policy then count me out. You would be shocked at what goes on in name brand bakeries and restaurants all across America. I'll be nice though I won't tell you about what really goes into bologna and hot dogs 🤣🤣🤣

@@Elleoaqua actually apparently there’s some strip club in Atlanta that pro athletes love because they have the best hot wings in the country lol. That might be the one exception

It just depends on the type of place you’re at. Some bars are almost a Resturaunt above being a bar and those are good. But I do agree with you at many bars just no food

An owner who does that to his staff is an owner that doesn’t deserve a bar

@@chanceveiga4481 Hope Terry got COVID-19.

@Carol Chidester You're right. I'm sorry. I forgive Terry, but I hope he atones for his mistakes. BTW, I can remove the comment if you like.

@Carol Chidester Come on now. I said I was sorry.

It's a tactic employed by the lazy and the incompetent: if you don't know what you're doing, and if what you're doing isn't working... just slap some T&A on it and that'll get a certain amount of people by default. In my experience, the more a business is pushing sex as a feature, the more the underlying product is garbage.

🤣🤣

Man

My mans was just there to drink.

@@tone868 and gets his beer dusted, it's just not his night

Okay, I didn't see that guy twice throughout that clip (hey, I thought they where different people), but man. That dude was not having a good night. He should get a drink... Somewhere else.

That’s what I’m saying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah gotta admit ya dropped the ball a little bit

But Jon made it work. The concept making lister “the man” made the place unique and could have been a neighborhood hot spot. But NO! The idiot manager didn’t want to put forth any effort and just wanted a hookah bar instead! Moron manager…

You would be shocked how you can turn a seemingly bad concept and make it amazing. The manager had a massive ego to remove the changes that were working.

Agree you put pictures of a old guy and expect college students to come😂

@@ramonanzures9780 you’d be surprised I’ve been to places you wouldn’t expect to be college hot spots with historical figures or historical significance be big hot spots for college students it can work and can actually work very well if it’s a good bar and serves good food

They are broke.

@@56redjets even better. That means all new and shiny equipment would be repossessed, and they would be closed down. If they want to be stupid, they should pay the penalty.

@@Thumpster59166 you are right, but there's a reason Bar Rescue goes to these places - they are in debt and need "rescue" so any penalty will be a waste of time, because there's no money to take!

i am bline and being bline does not stop me from watching or putting in my two cents worth

It's a scripted TV show. Lol

They sort of did that with Second Base, Jon bailed him out once, 2 years later it went to shit and he wanted help again. This time Jon flat out explained his plan for a $100,000 makeover and said he would only do it, if the owner chipped in $30,000. He wouldn't do it. So Jon walked out.

LMFAO!!!!!!!!

The difference between Chuck E. Cheeses and lonnies "band" is that one is creepy & sad, the other is sad & lame.

Holy shit that makes sense, she's on drugs

@@AwkwardBlackGal613 I’m sure she was often in her youth but not now. She was like the ultra hippy mom. Her kids are frickin fluent in sign language. Every last one of them has dreadlocks. Oh wait, do you consider weed a drug?

@@Dan.Solo.Chicago I'm goin with thinks weed is a drug. The reefer madness propaganda still going strong!

That's when you quit and find something else. Finding a good job is hard, but finding a job really isn't hard.

Press X to doubt….

Most of the ones with problems are alcoholics. They drink too much, get lazy and complacent and then don't follow up on the what John gave them

Right on! The recurring theme with John Taffer and Gordon Ramsey is getting past the incredible I am perfect prejudices of these bar and restaurant owners. Some of these bar owners should be sent to AA before before Taffer tries to rescue them. Sad!

@@bethcooper4200 That's one of the things I think Chef Robert Irvine does well (or did well) on "Restaurant Impossible" -- he made an effort to 'fix' the owners while he remodeled and renovated. He tried to get to the deeper issues as to why the place was failing, besides the obvious ones...

It's all scripted

we are not expected to belive that and i don't know how it blows your mind but.. maybe, just maybe, they just tell them they're beeing filmed for recap but the special guest is a surprise ^^

@@yeshiamelody2151 You're correct. They're usually told that they're filming a follow-up but never disclose if anyone is coming specifically for said filming.

Also they get their mic packs and stuff 🤣

The guy was full of shit, but that's not what he said. The supposed 400% sales belongs to a different category.

@@yondaime1324 clearly you didn’t watch the clip , but that’s expected form you liberals

@@roscosmosenglish1271 Wait... the guy claimed liquor sales were up 40, 50 -70% higher, then he said "food sales are about 400% higher".. Those are two different categories, aren't they? also, how did this become about politics? Do you just call anyone you disagree with a "liberal" as an insult? @10:57

@@skyebaldwin3087 the left really got to suck the joy out of everything

@@roscosmosenglish1271 Interesting. I'm just suggesting that not everything is because of a political difference. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't want to belittle someone just because they are on the left or the right. IDK. Maybe it's just me.

Yep. Usually, the best thing for a failed bar is a new owner

Jon knows a lot more than you do bud. Maybe some day you will leave your mom's basement.

Makes sense he's from Vegas

The main issue is the financial aspect, not his changes. In most of these bars that are failing, their “regulars” are the people that take advantage of the drunk/stupid owners and get shit for free. With a lot of these bars having hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by the time John steps in, its impossible to save them, especially with the way some of the owners act. They’re dickheads, frankly. Why would anyone want to support them? Plus, having their nasty habits in the spotlight only turns people away.

@@weskersbutt. These leeches (aka "customers") are cheap, and there's a lot of creeps in that crowd too. No young woman either, it is female alcoholics 45 years plus. _That's a recipe for success, girls in their 20's will never ever stay in a place with a "customer" base like that._

Same, same. The cross contamination is rampamt.

Like for real if I'm paying 5 bucks beer I better get something better than frozen

Exactly

Have you heard of miniaturisation? Ever heard of a phone camera, or a buttonhole camera? Or a person who is such an alcoholic that they would not care if an iMax camera was directed at him the whole time….

they do have hidden cameras as well though...

Cha cha CHA!

"Chip! Cut open this floor!"

@@tantheman0921 “That’s what’s under this floor!”

You know you've made it in life when you have a floor cutting team on standby.

The first one did, more or less except for the "natural spring" issue.

They don't even respect their own customers, let alone Bar Rescue.

It’s probably both of them. Gary doesn’t want to keep the changes, and Terry wants to be hands off and non-confrontational, causing them to have little direction. If Terry is a dedicated owner who wants success, he should be there, hands on, watching like a hawk.

@@nunurbiznis4749 I'm not sure, sounds like Gary felt as though he couldn't turn to Terry for help because Terry was too hands off. Terry even threw everyone else under the bus when in reality a lot of the blame should have been on him.

He do be yelling at the wrong people sometimes. He's half here for the drama and tv tbh

@@Ringingalong7008 they didn't show but later in the episode he learns that it wasn't really Terry's fault and learned that Gary was lying to Jon the entire time

Yeah I agree. Jon is usually pretty spot on with who he scolds but he was WAY off the mark that episode.

Lister reminds me of the doctor who invented Listerene. Great doc but lousy bar hero

The photos were off-putting, tbh. That creepy, cheesy face staring at you from all corners would have had me turning right back out the door. Think it's his worst remodel.

@@piranhapout But the guy didn't replace it with anything, other than a cheesy hookah tent outside. Not every concept is a winner, but no concept at all is a loser every time...

I actually hated the HandleBar design and the Lister. An I just think at that point the Biker community around it didn’t care for it so most of them moved on to better Bars.

@@AndrewAMartinThe owner of Rocket Room 6 changed it back to the Brixton but he used Jon’s tips and is successful

Locals usually don't want that kinda shit tbh. Now a clean bar and halfway decent food is another story. Some ppl have no business being in food & bev

They are a touch tacky

Sound's like a brothel

too bad about the ending

Remember, Jon knows nothing, but these failing bars owners are experts.

He wasn’t wrong though. One of Jon’s rare misses, it was a horrible concept. The dance floor was smart, but a bar about a random college president is not where college kids want to go. Nobody cares about photoshopped art, they want drinks and a good time.

that was hilarious cause that was a buddy of his, who took the dirty napkin off his shoulder earlier. "WTF BRO"

@@justinc4782 HAHAHAHA, even better now that you added that detail. "I didn't deserve this shit bro... oww". Nice guys not only finish last, they get their foot smashed into the floor by the dude they were being nice to LOL!

Forreal. She laughs and says "they're good frozen pizzas!" Bitch, do you think your customers want to pay for that? You think when you tell them you're serving them pizzas that cost a couple bucks at Costco they're going to keep ordering them?

Yeah, if people are paying you for pizza, make a fresh fucking Pizza. At least show some respect for your customers.

Jon knows nothing...says people with failing bars lol.

@@chesteradams7423 they must've mixed him with another jon that knows nothing lol