BAR RESCUE *name change imminent*

[J@3]

This show is amazing. Jon is amazing



Discuss. If you haven't seen it find it online and watch it

[JaoSming]

This show is amazing.

why?

your bar sucks,
no it doesnt,
do this,
no,
do it now,
ok fine, thank you fer saving my shit!

Why would I cut into my precious Curiosity and Storm Chasers night to watch this?

[Oznogrd]

Wait..so its like kitchen nightmares with more alchohol consumption?

[J@3]

This show is amazing.

why?

your bar sucks,
no it doesnt,
do this,
no,
do it now,
ok fine, thank you fer saving my shit!

Why would I cut into my precious Curiosity and Storm Chasers night to watch this?

Needs more monster trucks but other than that there is a lot that goes into the decision making process.

your bar sucks,
no it doesnt
yes it does. it needs to be less family friendly
why
because demographically only 33% of the population in this region have children. you want to attract younger professionals who are willing to spend money rather than the lesser populous families who in this economy are keeping their purse strings tighter than ever.
oh. sorry i will shoot myself now
probably for the best

[J@3]

Wait..so its like kitchen nightmares with more alchohol consumption?

It pretty much is, only the guy doing the transformations explains exactly why he's doing everything he's doing (ala my example above) and he uses experts in other fields of running a bar/club to help him rather than trying to do everything himself. Like for example in one episode he took the bars menu to a place that studies where peoples eyes are trained when they look at something, he found that people were being drawn to the least profitable food items on the menu because of the way it was designed. So he designed a menu that was scientifically proven to draw peoples eyes into the most profitable items. Little things like that are interesting to me, makes me want to open a bar.

[benji]

I love when he opens his eyes wide, I can't take it seriously, but he's angry as hell and the people are scared.

Quoting myself:

So Tabitha's Salon Takeover has a challenger in the business makeover field best epitomized by Kitchen Nightmares UK (not US) with Bar Rescue.

The problem with restaurant versions is that the people are generally just in over their heads but are often otherwise good people who would be fine doing something else, for both salons and bars it seems to be that they're just completely clueless people who don't want to actually work who seem to cluster around these disaster rides to take advantage of the owners who are also completely clueless until it collapses and then they jump to the next one.

And that makes for great T.V.

"Fresh handmade pizza" served on the cardboard tray from the frozen pizza box. Yum!

EDIT: And no, it's not because he does empirical analysis of bars that says what brings in or rejects women or makes people buy higher priced drinks or stay longer or...

EDIT2: Well, not entirely.

Building off what Jae mentioned, from the first episode for example, he notes that three motorcycles in-front of the door of a bar sends 65% of women away, six sends 88% of them away.

Neon lights make women look worse and distract the eye, while proper lighting draws you to the expensive liquors. And proper seating and setup encourages socialization.

And women are the key to the life of any bar.

Tabitha's is also full of good advice, for example don't run fifteen businesses out of the back room of your wife of two months' salon.

[The X]

Sounds good. I'll have to check it out

[benji]

at Canyon I--.

Jon was totally glad to hear his wife was getting molested. I love the owner saying he could do Jon's job despite the disaster his own place was. Canned soup is just incredible. I actually would've let her have it compared to the rest of the food in the place since it'd at least probably be sanitary compared to the rest of the kitchen. Fridge beer is awesome.

omg at throwing away the potatoes when making potato skins. I would have lost it.

Champs came off a bit weird or underdone, don't know if Jon thought that one through enough. I think they could have saved a ton of that "legend" style rather than turning it into a mass-produced sports bar style and made the biggest leaps just by fixing the kitchen and bar aspects with some minor layout tweaks. Why would you go there compared to those other bars even after the changes if not for the kitchen/bar? It'll be the same thing with the trivia games, outside look, etc. as everywhere else. I found it odd mostly because in other episodes he went out of his way to preserve old names, styles, "vibes" and just sought to revamp the service and reputation.

lol at Angry Ham's storeroom. And that ugly couch.

Jae should add to the OP that if you're in the United States of Awesome Possibilities you can watch every episode for free on the website: http://www.spike.com/shows/bar-rescue
It's like Hulu in that there are short ads at where they'd be in the actual airing, but the video quality seems to be even better than Hulu.

There are way too many chef Brian's on this show. Even the one bar had a chef named Brian.

Also, former professional sports players should not be involved in your bar is a key thing I've learned from this show. Plus I found some comments on a news article a bit ago about the one with the black girls and the ex Carlos and the beach bar. Apparently some people were going up to him and telling him what a shitbag he was during their visits to the revamped place.

HANDS.

[J@3]

Plus I found some comments on a news article a bit ago about the one with the black girls and the ex Carlos and the beach bar. Apparently some people were going up to him and telling him what a shitbag he was during their visits to the revamped place.

LOL he deserved it. In the scene where the girls tell him to go home and they'll run the place that night he's like "it'll be difficult for you...". He was keeping them scared to keep himself employed.

Champs was a bit of a nothing episode to me, I didn't care about it. I found the Canyon Salinn the most interesting because of the old regulars chasing off the newer customers. Sounds like they just let it happen again after the cameras left. How these people can be so inept at running something like that when they have someone telling them what to do is beyond me.

Also got a laugh at the guy at that garage bar thing saying he planned on opening 8 more of them nationwide. Uh might want to get the first one right before you franchise it.

[benji]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/the- ... 84178.html

If what I'm hearing is correct, the Spike TV series Bar Rescue ultimately couldn't save the Old City nightclub Swanky Bubbles.

It's dark tonight -- a Saturday night and prime time for its bread-and-butter: spirited bachelorette parties.

Staffers learned Friday that their services were no longer needed, according to a source. I'm awaiting a return call from owners.

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court records show state tax liens as well as a legal tussle between landlord Janice Rimmeir and the owners over the liquor license. According to Liquor Control Board records, the license is inactive, which in theory should prevent the club from serving alcohol. (LCB records online do not indicate when the license status changed.)

On Oct. 27, Common Pleas Court Judge Arnold New barred the owners from selling the license while Rimmeir obtains business records.

Swanky Bubbles, boasting a champagne theme, opened in the late 1999 on the onetime site of the fancy French restaurant La Truffe. A Cherry Hill version, which boasted the most expensive liquor license ever purchased in New Jersey ($1.6 million), was open from 2007 to 2010. The space in Short Hills Shopping Center is now Dublin Square.

Swanky Bubbles had lost its effervescence earlier this year when partner John Frankowski allowed bar expert Jon Taffer to remake the bar in May, reflagging it Sheer for a nationwide audience. But the Swanky Bubbles name never really went away.

[J@3]

What a shock. I hope the goofy looking black guy got laid at least once for all of his effort while working there.

[benji]

Apparently Bar Rescue spent $250,000 on redoing Piratz. No wonder they do so much better remodels than every other show like this.

With my experience in the restaurant business (from watching TV shows) I know one problem is giant sprawling menus. It's amazing how some of these places have 18+ page menus. Why would you ever have a bar with a menu that large?!? Not even a bar and grill should be that big!

Never tasting the habanero chicken was amazing. "why taste? i can see it good!"

Oh god at those pirate drinks...the grog.

"Why throw away what has worked for five years?" lololol it hasn't worked, you blew a million dollars and live with your parents you dope

lol at telling customers they hate hearing they want to come back.

I lol'd that they knew the show well enough to make his wife but not enough to think he wouldn't destroy their foolish fantasy. (Although she was an attractive woman who wandered into a pirate themed bar to order wine apparently.) There was a recent Restaurant Impossible I saw where the person was all "WHY ARE YOU TEARING UP MY RAT INFESTED FLOORS AND KITCHEN! THAT MENU IS MY PRIDE, SO WHAT IF NOBODY ORDERS FROM IT!"

The pirate one was so fucking obvious it was going to turn out that way. I'm not surprised she didn't let it last even a week. How much fucking cash did she spend to change the bar back?!?

Sadly, he turned it into the perfect stupid place for the area. They could have done something like Pirate Weekends and just had the week to sell their corporate clients. They could even make it look like a "real pirate takeover" on the weekend, put a Jolly Roger over the sign, "re-decorate" inside. People would have eaten that shit up. Something I've started doing with these shows (this, Hotel/Restaurant Impossible, etc.) is trying to guess how much the owners are going to reverse the changes and then looking them up to see if they did. I like when they let me know so I don't have to. Hope they do a review of the first season bars. The people Jon sent in undercover changed their bar back to how it was before.

Jon seems to be going after people more and yelling more, hope it's not to schtick up the show. I liked his more biting "are you serious?" with his eyes becoming massive style. Definately some hilarious new product placement. "GOES GREAT WITH A RED STRIPE BEER" "WITH CAPTAIN MORGAN ORIGINAL RUM!" (Plus the loveable old friend in "I called my friends at some company only people in the resauarant business would care about!") Great focus in on a Red Stripe bottle during the montage too.

Mia wasn't even that attractive. None of Frank's blondes were really. That one girl they barely showed gave nothing but bitch looks and really sat like one. They had to use some random camera footage from some other time to show her smiling during Abbie's "test" lol. I wonder how bad they all were that Abbie got to be star pupil over the "hardworking" girl just because she came back to work and was willing to try to learn.

"WORKED UNDER THE WORST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS" lol it was just heavy rain.

I like how Jon ever so subtly made the uniforms even more revealing than they were prior.

EDIT: OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED WHERE I KNEW THAT TIKI BAR GUY FROM. HE WAS ON FUCKING HOTEL IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE HOTEL!

http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/h ... derdale-fl



And the responsible girl was on it:


The file name on this is "bartender search 2011":

[benji]

phpBB [video]

Jon says he doesn't give a shit if they go out of business: http://www.spike.com/video-clips/aeg0oq ... atz-tavern

[J@3]

I've noticed that Jon has started exaggerating his "I'm right, agree with me" head nodding whenever he has an idea. I like it. One frightening thing that was skipped in the Piratz episode is when the server trainer woman was trying to talk to the weirdo with the missing eye, he turned to go after her and had a knife in his hand it was fucking weird. I hope they go out of business and they wind up homeless (moreso than they are currently). I got the feeling it was a place for a bunch of socially awkward weirdos to get drunk and avoid the world, they had no interest in ever fixing it.

The second episode at the tiki bar thing was a bit boring, the guy was sleazy and obviously can't run a business (judging by the fact that he has two of them and both have been on rescue-style shows). I hope they do more bars this year where the angry locals are running off any potential customers, they did one last season and it was pretty funny watching the old drunks making young women uncomfortable at the reveal.

[benji]

I'm pretty sure that one bar's entire purpose was for the woman's biker buddies to ogle the young women/strippers.

[shadowgrin]

'Watch it, it's funny' said some dope.
No it's not! It's like watching kids being given sharp knives and telling them to run at each other on a slippery floor.

5 years and $900,000 in debt. I mean what the fuck. There has to be a point where you must realize that it's not working and either pack it up and quit or go with a different plan but fuck, why let it reach to a million.
I'm guessing that with owner's former corporate background she still had friends to go to for loans until the debt reached that amount but with said background how in the hell can't she realize the increasing debt she's in. Just crazy.

lol at the signature dish Burning Bits. Ok so there's something funny in the show. Telling the customers that it sucks to know that they're enjoying the place was also a good one. That dude with the one-eye who was so into the pirate character was amusing. Also, dat menu.

The definite thing I enjoyed watching in that show was that expert black chick with the rack.

lmao: http://piratztavern.com/story/
I see that the menu is still a mess even if it's not 18 pages anymore.

[J@3]

Am I just imagining things or are the "customer notes" at the bottom in suspiciously similar hand writing

[volsey]

Customer notes were probably the left by the employees. Who the fuck goes to a bar to see adults dress up as pirates on a regular basis? I cannot believe that dumb bitch reverted to the old style bar w/o even giving the Corporate look a try (correct me if I'm wrong).

Just watched the 10 min preview of the Mystique bar. Good god Jon rips into the manager (rightfully so)! But saying "Go home, take off your tie and get back here and clean all this shit all night long or don't ever show up again!".... Manimal

[deihatein]

Who the fuck goes to a bar to see adults dress up as pirates on a regular basis?

Andrew probably, maybe not on a regular basis but on Talk Like a Pirate Day and Halloween.

[J@3]

Mystique episode was a bit boring, needed some (or more) closet racism. Putting the girls in those outfits probably wasn't the smartest idea.

[Andrew]

Andrew probably, maybe not on a regular basis but on Talk Like a Pirate Day and Halloween.

Rumours of my pirate fetish have been greatly exaggerated.

[benji]

Renewed for a third season:

Spike TV has greenlit a third season of 20 episodes of its popular unscripted original series, Bar Rescue for a premiere in the first quarter of 2013. The second season of the series, which follows nightlife consultant Jon Taffer as he tries to help failing hospitality establishments, premiered on July 29 to an average of 1.3 million viewers and improved the timeslot by 100% with Men 18-49 and 89% with Persons 18-34.

[benji]

Last episode, The Olive Pit, was more like the first season. Jon did more analysis of the bar/area/etc. which had been missing from some episodes this year.

[benji]

The Pub House was one of the happier, more positive episodes I've seen on this show. Even Jon seemed happy and excited about prospects instead of "can we somehow get through this?"

"Bars don't have an opening, THEY HAVE A LAUNCH!"

Next week looks like a return to form from the prview.

[benji]

Liked this one (Weber) until the follow-up text. Then I realized the bitchy girl had also disappeared. Now I don't know what to think about any of it.