Episode 1
Put It on Cody’s Tab
43m
A 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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TV series
Bar Rescue
2011TV-PG10 seasons8.0 / 10
He’s not here to take names. He’s here to take over.
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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
Season 6 episodes
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Episode 2
Close, But No Cigar
43m
When 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
43m
Two scientists struggle with the correct formula to run a successful bar.
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Episode 4
Ground Control to Major Jon
43m
Jon 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
43m
A 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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Back to the Bar: Don't Call It a Comeback
43m
Jon 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
43m
A 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
43m
A 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
43m
A 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
43m
The 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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Back to the Bar: Blue in the Frog Face
43m
Taffer 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
43m
Jon 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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Back to the Bar: The Power of Bacon and Beer
43m
Jon 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
A 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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Back to the Bar: Tough Love
43m
Jon 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
43m
An 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
An 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
43m
Jon 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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Back to the Bar: The Tradewinds of Change
43m
Jon 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
43m
Nostalgia 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
43m
A 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
43m
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.
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Episode 26
Dalia’s Inferno
43m
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.
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Episode 27
Don’t Cry for Me Jon Taffer
43m
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.
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Episode 28
Owner on the Run
43m
Jon 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
43m
A 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
43m
Putting 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
43m
The 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
43m
Two 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
The 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
Jon 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
43m
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.
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Episode 39
Reckless Roundhouse
43m
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.
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Episode 40
John and Bert Bought a Bar
43m
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.
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Episode 41
Green Walls and Donkey Balls
43m
Two 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
43m
The 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
43m
After 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
43m
Mark 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
43m
n 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
43m
Jon 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!
43mfinale
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.
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More about Bar Rescue
Cast
Jon TafferSelfCredits
- Created by
- Darrin Reed
Production details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Reality
- Episodes
- 301
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
SpikeUnited States
Paramount NetworkUnited States
3 Ball ProductionsUnited States
MTV Entertainment StudiosUnited States- Eyeworks USAUnited States
Themes
intenserenovation
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