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  • TV-PG
  • Spike TV
  • Apr 7, 2013
  • 42 m
  • TV-PG
  • Spike TV
  • Apr 7, 2013
  • 42 m

Summary Jon Taffer, a well-known restaurant and bar consultant, shares his tips for running a successful business.

Directed By: Glenn GT Taylor

Written By: Darrin Reed

  • TV-PG
  • Spike TV
  • Apr 7, 2013
  • 42 m
  • TV-PG
  • Spike TV
  • Apr 7, 2013
  • 42 m
Bar Rescue
S3 • Episode 9
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Air Date: Apr 7, 2013
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Summary Jon Taffer, a well-known restaurant and bar consultant, shares his tips for running a successful business.

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Episode 1 • Feb 10, 2013 • 42 m
Turtle on Its Back
For a bar to fail on Bourbon Street in New Orleans it takes a special kind of incompetence. Can bar expert Jon Taffer get these delusional owners to ditch their copy-cat ways and start thinking for themselves?
Episode 2 • Feb 17, 2013 • 42 m
Rock N Roaches
Jon Taffer descends on a grotesque goth and rock bar in Austin, TX. Tasteless performances and cockroach infestations are the least of his problems as he spars with the worst bar owner to date.
Episode 3 • Feb 24, 2013 • 42 m
Bros Got to Geaux!
Jon Taffer comes to New Orleans tackles his first college bar run by the owners best friends.
Episode 4 • Mar 3, 2013 • 42 m
Tears for Beers
Bar Expert Jon Taffer fights to save a terminally hip bar on 6th St in Austin, TX that is too cool for its own customers. If he fails it will not only cost a husband & wife their business but possibly their marriage.
Episode 5 • Mar 10, 2013 • 42 m
Empty Pockets
Jon travels to Denver, Colorado and attempts to help Avi, the owner of Zan Z Bar. With bartenders who over-pour, a cook who never changes gloves, and drunk patrons who still get served, its no surprise that Avi is losing $3,000 a month.
Episode 6 • Mar 17, 2013 • 42 m
Jon T, He Don't Like It
10 years ago, The Kasbah Lounge in Aurora, Colorado was an urban hotspot. Now it is a relic. Bar Expert Jon Taffer must breathe new life into this dying nightclub otherwise it will become extinct for good.
Episode 7 • Mar 24, 2013 • 42 m
In a Pinch
Lona's Wardlow Station has locals upset over a controversial lobster tank game. Can Bar Expert Jon Taffer bring peace to this blue-collar community?
Episode 8 • Mar 31, 2013 • 42 m
Karaoke Katastrophe
At Dimples, America's first karaoke bar, Jon Taffer must deal with dated décor, an angry chef, and an oblivious owner... who's also a hoarder.
Episode 9 • Apr 7, 2013 • 42 m
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Jon has to turn around a bar in a small Arizona town whose owners are drunk most of the time, the food is terrible, customers are out of control and the bank is about to foreclose because the owners are behind on their $180,000 mortgage.
Episode 10 • Apr 14, 2013 • 42 m
Meat Sauna
Bad ventilation cause hot, moist burger smoke to fill Scottsdale's least funny comedy club. Jon Taffer arrives to clear the air and use proven bar techniques to create bigger laughs and bigger profits for the troubled owners.
Episode 11 • 2013 • 42 m
Don't Mess with Taffer's Wife
An aggressive Las Vegas bar owner tries to pick up Nicole Taffer, sending Jon into a rage. Can he set this owner's wandering eyes straight and save a once famous blues bar without coming to blows first?
Episode 12 • Aug 4, 2013 • 42 m
Play. Some. Janet. Jackson!
Las Vegas' first gay nightclub, Gipsy, is months from closing its doors thanks to its verbally abusive and over intoxicated owner. Can Jon rescue one of Sin City's most famous landmarks?
Episode 13 • Sep 8, 2013 • 42 m
Beer and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hammers is a watering hole for blue-collar locals, owned and operated by two classically trained chefs and former friends. Taffer arrives to discover that both their business and their friendship appear beyond repair.
Episode 14 • Jul 28, 2013 • 42 m
There's No Crying in the Bar Business
Jon heads to a Georgia sports bar and encounters an owner whose incessant crying seems to prevent her noticing the massive employee theft issue occurring right under her nose.
Episode 15 • Aug 11, 2013 • 42 m
Characters Assassination
Charters Quarters might be the worst bar concept ever, but it's only 1 of the problems Jon must overcome at this confused establishment run by a family of Yankees in heart of Dixie.
Episode 16 • Jul 14, 2013 • 42 m
Don't Judge a Booze by Its Bottle
North Carolina's Cashmere Nightclub has a bad name, poor decor, and an embarrassing manager, but when Jon learns that they are refilling premium liquor bottles with cheap booze, all hell breaks loose.
Episode 17 • Aug 18, 2013 • 42 m
Corking the Bunghole
13 miles from Fort Bragg, Cliques suffers from a juvenile name and a repugnant reputation. Jon puts the owners through his personal bar boot camp in the hopes of making it the R&R choice destination for local military personnel.
Episode 18 • Aug 25, 2013 • 42 m
Bar Full of Bull
A rickety mechanical bull fails to attract customers in this salty New England whaling community. Can Jon right this ship and prevent two siblings from sinking the bar and their father's retirement?
Episode 19 • Jul 21, 2013 • 42 m
Two Flew Over the Handlebars
Two buxom sisters have driven their biker bar in Pawcatuck, Connecticut into a ditch. Can Jon get these party women to stop binge drinking and focus on the real assets of their bar?
Episode 20 • Sep 15, 2013 • 42 m
Barely Above Water
Taffer makes two bars out of one in an attempt to save both a beachfront bar in Warwick, Rhode Island, and the owner's marriage.
Episode 21 • Oct 6, 2013 • 42 m
Crappy Cantina
Two brothers have drained their parents' retirement fund by opening an ill-conceived death-metal concert bar. Taffer arrives to run off the metal-head clientele & straighten out this festering mosh pit of failure.
Episode 22 • Oct 13, 2013 • 42 m
Jon of the Dead
Underworld is a "horror" bar run by 2 rocker-burnouts who managed to surpass their music industry failure with an even bigger failure in the bar biz. Jon attempts to transform this hive of scum & villainy into a profit center.
Episode 23 • Oct 20, 2013 • 42 m
Grandpa Got Run Over by His Grandkids
William invested $4 million on a Vegas bar to secure his kids & grandkids' futures. In return they use it as their private boozing & breeding grounds, wasting millions in the process. Can Jon turn this family tragedy around?
Episode 24 • Nov 3, 2013 • 42 m
Drunk & Dirty Dolls
This Vegas motorsports bar has come off the track thanks to an inept owner & a staff of busty cougars. Can Jon create a new & classy concept to tap into the largest single & divorced MILF population in the country?
Episode 25 • Nov 10, 2013 • 42 m
Empty Bottles Full Cans
Customers bringing in their own booze and bartenders flashing their boobs aren't Jon's biggest problems with this Tennessee watering hole. Taffer must ignite a lazy owner's ingenuity to save the bar from going bust.
Episode 26 • Nov 17, 2013 • 42 m
Hole in None
This golf-themed bar is a swing and a miss and its horrendous sanitary conditions are completely out of bounds. Jon must clean house and get rid of the filth as well as the staff responsible for making his expert sick.
Episode 27 • Nov 24, 2013
Music City Mess
Episode 28 • Dec 8, 2013 • 42 m
Brawlin' Babes
Jon is called in to turn around Long Shot's, a failing sports bar in Grain Valley, Missouri, which suffers from battling female staffers, inept bartenders and dispirited management.
Episode 29 • Mar 16, 2014 • 42 m
Critters and Quitters
A raccoon infestation is only the most extreme on a long list of problems plaguing KC's Bar & Grill.
Episode 30 • Dec 15, 2013 • 42 m
Twin vs. Twin
Lights, sirens and handcuffs greet Jon before he even enters the door of this Kansas City bar. Sibling rivalry between two identical twins with identical huge egos present Taffer with one of his toughest rescues.
Episode 31 • Mar 9, 2014 • 42 m
Hostile Takeover
A heavy drinking owner of an Irish sports bar is the subject of a hostile takeover...by his co-owners!
Episode 33 • Mar 23, 2014 • 42 m
Punch-Drunk & Trailer-Trashed
A dysfunctional family's feuding pushes Jon Taffer to the limit. Will their outrageous antics force Taffer into an extreme decision?
Episode 34 • Apr 6, 2014 • 42 m
Grow Some Meatballs!
At a family run bar, a brother and sister are locked in conflict with their explosive father. But while Taffer struggles to train an inexperienced staff, disaster is about to ignite in the kitchen.
Episode 35 • Apr 20, 2014 • 42 m
When Life Doesn't Hand You Lemons
Too busy canoodling to notice his staff is sinking, a manager treats his bar like a romantic playground, forcing Taffer to demand inside help from the bartenders.
Episode 36 • Mar 30, 2014 • 42 m
Scoreboard to Death
Taffer is joined by celebrity guests Maria Menounos & Adam Carolla as he takes over a failing sports bar, wrangles with an incompetent owner and deals with an undertrained staff.
Episode 37 • Apr 13, 2014 • 42 m
Taxed Out in Texas
Torn apart by a dysfunctional staff and a bad reputation, a tax accountant turned bar owner struggles to keep his biker bar afloat.
Episode 38 • Apr 27, 2014 • 42 m
I Smell a Rat
Profits are going up in smoke due to the overwhelming odors and frat house behavior at this hookah bar.
Episode 39 • May 4, 2014 • 42 m
Scary Mary's
The lecherous owner of a dying Texas dive crosses the line with one of Taffer's experts.
Episode 40 • May 11, 2014 • 42 m
Muscle Madness
Two muscle-bound meatheads can't see pec-to-pec on how to run their Houston bar. Now, their tempers and testosterone threaten to tear their friendship apart.
Episode 994 • Jun 22, 2014
Taffer's Top 10: Most Disgusting Bars
Jon counts down the ten most disgusting bars he's rescued during the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
Episode 995 • Jun 22, 2014
Taffer's Top 10: Worst Owners
Jon counts down the ten worst owners he's encountered during the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
Episode 996 • Jun 29, 2014
Taffer's Top 10: Toughest Rescues
Jon counts down the ten toughest rescues he's undertaken during the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
Episode 997 • Jun 29, 2014
Taffer's Top 10: Angriest Moments
Jon counts down the ten angriest moments he's encountered during the first three seasons of Bar Rescue.
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Top Cast

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Jon Taffer

Self - Host, Bar Consultant, Narrator

P.J. King

Self - Narrator, Self - Announcer

Mia Mastroianni

Self, Self - Bar Expert, Self - Master Mixologist

Russell Davis

Self, Self - Mixologist

Tom Bonello

Self, Bar Patron, Bar patron

Vic Moea

Chef Vic Vegas, Master Chef, Self - Culinary Expert

Tiffany Derry

Self, Self - Restaurant Consultant, Self - Culinary Expert

Nicole Taffer

Self - Market Recon Specialist, Self - Specialty: Recon, Self - Recon

Kevin Bludso

Chef Expert

Brian Duffy

Self - Specialty: Chef, Self - Chef, Self

Jason Santos

Self, Self - Chef Expert, Self - Culinary Expert, Self - cast -chef expert

Nancy Hadley

Self - Designer, Expert, Self, Self - Design Expert, Self - Interior Designer, Self - Production Designer, Self - Specialty: Design

Robert Floyd

Mixologist

Aaron McCargo Jr.

Self - Chef, Self - Culinary Expert, Self - Specialty Bar Cuisine, Self - Specialty: Bar Cuisine

Phil Wills

Self - Mixology Expert, Self - Master Mixologist, Self -Mixology Expert

Lisamarie Joyce

Self, Trainer, Bar Expert, Self - Bar Expert, Self - Consultant

Brad Bohannan

Self, Self - Spirits on Bourbon Co-Owner

Peter O'Connor

Self, Self - Diageo Master of Whiskey, Self - Specialty: Whiskey

Jessie Barnes

Self - Service Expert, Self - Bottle Service Expert, Self - Mixologist

Joseph Brooke

Self - Mixologist, Self - Specialty Speed Bartender, Self - Specialty: Cocktails

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