Bar Rescue Season 8 The release date Jun 04, 2023 on Paramount+

Jon is at The Armadillo Grill in Phoenix, AZ, to help its beloved owner Brenda who is in over her head and oblivious to a filthy kitchen that is hazardous to both employees and patrons.

When the owner of Jolt'n Joe's in San Diego was diagnosed with cancer, he began leaning on his manager, but a broken promise over sweat equity threatens to run the bar into the ground.

Jon goes to Orange County, CA, and attempts to revitalize Pineapple Hill Grill, a neighborhood bar whose owner's hands-off approach puts patrons at risk.

Jon heads to the Silver Dollar in Chula Vista, CA, where the unresolved tensions between the father and son owners have led to operational issues and neglect.

Jon drops in on the lively Bottoms Up Bar and Grill in Stanton, CA, to teach the owner's son how to manage a rowdy atmosphere while still keeping patrons happy.

Jon heads to Pepe's Mexican Restaurant & Cantina in Canyon Lake, CA, to help a once-bustling bar that's now a ghost town and open the disconnected owners' eyes.

Jon does reconnaissance at Kalaveraz Cocina-Cantina in Escondido, CA, and finds an owner so in over his head that he's resorted to not paying his staff.

Jon travels to Oakland, CA, to help Marshawn Lynch turn around his bar, Rob Ben's, by teaching the NFL star to treat his staff less like family and more like a team.

An inexperienced bar owner calls on Jon after hiring a hard-partying manager with no industry knowledge to run Broadway Club in Tooele, Utah.

Jon visits Tracy, CA, to help the divorced owners of Grant Bar & Lounge clean up their act and bring cohesion to their competing nightclub/restaurant concept.

Jon is brought in to save The Sandbar in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but before he can save the failing beach-themed bar, he has to figure out who the actual owner is first.

Jon is in Albuquerque, NM, to help Commander Rudy and his staff recruit young veterans to become members and inject new life into his VFW Post 6216 bar and hall.

Deep in debt to his in-laws, a clueless owner evokes the wrath of Jon and his own staff due to his passive approach towards running his dream bar.

In Layton, Utah, Jon confronts Brandon, the emotionally exhausted owner of Linda Lou's Time for Two, who has bled himself and his mother dry trying to keep the bar open.

Jon is in New Mexico to help Mike, the owner of Lucky 66 Bowl, who is over a million dollars in debt and keeps driving customers and employees out the door with his temper.

Jon -- joined by rapper T-Pain -- is in Sacramento, CA, to convince Kings fan Chris he needs to change his sports bar concept if he's ever going to make money.

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 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.

In 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.

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.

After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner is seeing his profits go up in smoke.

In his first-ever emergency rescue, Jon uses his last resort to help the overwhelmed and grieving owner of Buffalo City Bar & Grille save her father's legacy.

Two best friends are acting more like jackasses than owners and find themselves on the verge of losing their dream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jon attempts to rescue Eliphino, a Las Vegas dive dar struggling because of an owner who makes bad decisions and more enemies than friends.

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.

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.

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.

A twerking, drinking, fighting staff threatens a once-thriving bar, leaving Ashley and Robert Gaddy's future at a Crossroads.

A pair of brothers can't see eye-to-eye how their business should be run, so one of them takes a run.

Jon must get an overly-emotional bar owner to stop wallowing and take action to save his bar.

Jon heads to San Antonio to help a "cool mom" owner stop partying and start running her business like a professional.

Jon heads back to Puerto Rico to help brother-and-sister bar owners who saw their business devastated by Hurricane Maria.

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.

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.

Jon revisits bars The Tradewinds and 22 Klicks to see if their respective staffs are still working together or falling back into bad habits.

Jon heads to middle-of-nowhere Tennessee to rescue The Wanted Saloon, whose remote location is just the first of many challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jon visits the No Name Saloon, a rowdy biker bar where the owner refuses to trust his daughter's managerial skills.

Jon looks back at some of his most successful turnarounds and asks the audience to share some of their favorite rescue memories.

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.

Jon finds family turmoil when he checks up on The Local, then he visits with the owners of Mac & Chester's to check on their business and their marriage.

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.

A frenetic bar owner with no prior bar experience drives the Copper Rocket Pub into the ground by bringing in carnivalesque entertainment.

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.

A soccer mom turned strip club owner refuses help from her daughter even though she's trained in hospitality management.

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.

The owner of Joe's Thirsty Lizard, a failing Mississippi dive bar, compounds his troubles by promoting a dishwasher with no experience to manager.

King's Duck Inn, a working-class bar once popular with employees of the nearby Kennedy Space Center, is threatened by a volatile mother-daughter relationship.

Jon must educate a pair of brilliant scientists who proved to be not-so-brilliant bar owners when they bought a past-its-prime L.A. rock club.

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 son takes over the failing family bar -- and its debt -- and the biggest obstacle to getting out of the red is his abusive father who spends all night sitting at the bar.

Jon checks back in with bar owners who've been hit by disasters, including an apocalypse-themed bar and a Chicago landmark, to see if he can rescue them again.

Jon has to convince the foulmouthed co-owner of the Lucky Leprechaun to change his ways before the bar, also co-owned by his ex-wife, shuts down for good.

Jon calls on rescued bar owners to see if they seized their second chances to fix their code violations and control their biker clientele.

Jon visits Rockin' Rhonda's Lounge, a bar literally on the brink of collapse after the insurance company refused to pay for damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.

Jon arrives in the nick of time to save Sidelines, a family-operated sports bar being run into the ground by a violent father.

If Jon is going to save the Liquid Lounge in Long Beach, CA, the first thing he has to do is eliminate the bar's serious ant problem.

Jon looks back at some of the biggest barroom brawls in the show's history and checks in to see if the owners and their patrons have curbed their rowdy ways.

Jon visits a Las Vegas dive to teach the owner of Jack's Place how to act less like a mother and more like a boss.

Jon heads to the little town of Pahrump, Nevada, to help the owner of Paddy's Pub, who may soon lose his sense of sight forever.

In an attempt at his first bar resurrection, Jon must get the burnt-out owner of the Casual Tap to reopen his business while also rediscovering his passion for it.

Rescued bar owners return to sing Jon's praises, including an owner once accused of embezzlement by his father and a habitual vaper who loved to stir up conflict.

A decade after a husband and wife left for corporate jobs, they repurchase the Speakeasy Bar & Grill and discover it isn't what it used to be.

A decade after a husband and wife left for corporate jobs, they repurchase the Speakeasy Bar & Grill and discover it isn't what it used to be.

A decade after a husband and wife left for corporate jobs, they repurchase the Speakeasy Bar & Grill and discover it isn't what it used to be.

Jon confronts a previously rescued owner about her blistering attitude toward her daughters, and another owner comes clean about why his business failed after the rescue.

When the original owners of The Dugout near Wrigley Field fell behind on their rent, the landlord took over and became one of the most obstinate bar owners Jon has ever met.

The owner of the Summit House Grill and Tap has pushed his marriage and business to the breaking point by drinking away his financial sorrows and hitting on female patrons.

Jon has to straighten out the abrasive owner of the St8 Pub, who has squandered a generous deal from the landlord and taken advantage of his mother financially.

Jon confronts the owners of the Handlebar Café about abandoning his changes, then checks in on The Brixton in Austin, Texas.

After suffering a personal tragedy, the former punk rocker and owner of the Triple Nickel Tavern nears rock bottom, but Jon's patience only goes so far.

If Jon wants to save the mice-infested, touristy Fort One Bar & Lounge, he'll need to get the spoiled owner who was gifted the bar to stop taking it for granted.

A military hero about to be redeployed needs more than his bar rescued, as his problematic drinking threatens to cost him his livelihood and relationship.

The Tradewinds bar could shut down for good if Jon can't get a lazy stepson to step into his new role as manager.

Brother and sister owners develop a bitter sibling rivalry when they take over the historic Sam Jordan's bar in San Francisco.

New bar owners accuse their manager [and the bar's former owner] of sabotaging their business to try to steal it back.

Rescuing the Russell City Grill & Sports Bar was already going to be a challenge, but a violent brawl makes Jon question if it's even worth saving.

Jon's attempt to save the YNot Sports Pub & Grub gets off to a bad start when there isn't enough staff on hand for a stress test.

When a military veteran/bar owner responds to criticism of his philanthropic work with nasty comments online, his business is sent into a tailspin.

The owner of City Bar compounded his troubles when he approved a poorly received fetish night, so Jon must help him come up with a new plan to whip up business.

A roller rink bar in a tiny desert town is in danger of closing for good if Jon can't get the hometown hero who owns it to take control.

Jon needs the nice-guy owner of Champagne's Cafe, a classic Vegas dive with a storied Mafia history, to start acting like a wise guy.

The owner of The Gallopin' Goose ruined his marriage and his bar's reputation when he had an illicit affair that resulted in a child.

Jon has a hard time getting through to the owner of the Black Light District, who's convinced fixing up his rancid dive would be a betrayal of his punk rock credo.

Jon is called in to help the failing owner of Baseline Sports Bar, whose sexually exploitive spaghetti wrestling events have driven away female customers.

The timid owner of City Bistro in St. Louis, MO, looks the other way as her raunchy bartenders flash customers to drum up business.

After convincing his friends to invest their life savings, the rookie bar owner of Cirivello's has turned a community staple into a money pit and now faces a hostile takeover.

A former doctor decides to run The Bridge Lounge, his father's once-successful bar, but runs into trouble when the BP oil spill devastates the local customer base.

Jon reveals which of his rescues has been most successful, tests the luck of Campbell's Irish Pub and revisits The Lister and its infamous "porn couch."

Jon schools the clueless owner of Grinders, whose unauthorized and unsafe renovation has the city threatening to shut the place down.

Jon heads back to MT Bottle to put a fork in their gravy dispute, then he finds out what the owners of Piratz have planned for the future.

Jon heads back to MT Bottle to put a fork in their gravy dispute, then he finds out what the owners of Piratz have planned for the future.

He's no stranger to unkempt bars, but Jon is absolutely disgusted by the rat, roach and raccoon problem inside Freaki Tiki.

A successful St. Louis, MO, restaurateur risks everything when she decides to add a downtown sports bar to her portfolio and put her out-of-control nephew in charge.

Jon revisits the Dirty Rooster and ruffles the feathers of its owner, then he mediates a muscle-bound dispute between rival Texas bar owners.

An explosive conflict breaks out among the owners of Dale 1891 when Jon discovers one of them has been siphoning off profits.

Jon is tasked with getting the apathetic owner of Van Goghz to put down her vape pen and start engaging with customers.

The feud between the owners of Mac & Chester's SRO has led to a bifurcation of their business and attracted a dysfunctional, rowdy clientele.

Jon checks in with Jack's Fire Department to see if the McGowan brothers have cooled their fiery tempers, then he takes on a resentful stand-up comedy club owner.

In a Bar Rescue first, Jon helps a failing strip club saddled with a disinterested staff, a skeevy vibe and an off-putting name: Chix on Dix.

A former psychologist turned bar owner attempts to run a Detroit jazz club, but her interfering family and lazy staff have her seeking counseling from Jon.

At an Ann Arbor, MI, college alumni bar, Jon is forced to deal with a hotheaded owner whose fiery temper keeps his staff on edge and his million-dollar debt on ice.

Jon visits The Hooch, an X-rated bar where the foulmouthed owner wastes her husband's money and constantly berates her female staff.

In a struggling military bar, a distrustful owner spends her time spying on her staff instead of watching the bottom line.

Former Judas Priest front man Tim "Ripper" Owens calls in Jon after discovering being a rock star and running a rock club are two very different skills.

After giving their artsy, irresponsible landlord a share of the bar, the brothers behind Martini Brothers Burger Bar are at their wits' end and ready to call Jon for help.

The obnoxious behavior of two feuding brothers threatens to put an end to the storied legacy of Royal Oaks, the oldest bar and barbecue joint in Youngstown, Ohio.

A lackadaisical owner may lose more than his Irish pub if Jon isn't able to help him take charge and end the fighting among his bartenders.

A womanizing owner will lose his run-down Caribbean bar, and his wife, if he can't change his toxic behavior.

Jon checks in on four previously rescued bars, including Dimples and 22 Klicks, to see if the owners have a better grasp of the reality of their businesses.

Jon is tasked with rescuing a Chicago sports bar that's heavy on managers and light on respect for the owner.

Jon is tasked with rescuing a Chicago sports bar that's heavy on managers and light on respect for the owner.

The eccentric owner of Brix Wine Bar is too busy being the life of the party to notice his business is withering on the vine.

Jon checks in on some of the most stubborn owners he's ever worked with, including the owner of O Face, where Jon previously walked out without completing the rescue.

Jon tries to motivate the inattentive owner of a failing Portland, Oregon, music venue plagued by mismanagement and an ant infestation.

Taffer is assisted by Alexander Siddig and Iddo Goldberg, the stars of TUT, to help him rescue a Moroccan bar with an identity crisis.

Jon tries to help the owner of a failing Portland, Oregon, bar cool the temper of his stubborn chef and his overbearing stepdaughter turned business partner.

Jon tries to navigate a turbulent partnership between an ex-pilot, his ex-girlfriend and the other partner, whose relationship is affecting the business of the bar due to the owner's inability to move on with his relationship with his ex, who does nothing and takes advantage of him.

Jon must help retired professional baseball player turned bar owner Dan Serafini be a leader when he allows his staff to be over intoxicated and give away all his profits.

A family-owned bar is put at risk when a son's excessive drinking and poor management choices begin to attract an X-rated clientele.

Jon goes head-to-head with a stubborn owner and self-proclaimed "nightlife expert" who's resistant to implementing any changes.

Jon revisits Solids & Stripes, Pat's Cocktails, MoonRunners Saloon and Corporate Bar & Grill to see if the hotheaded owners of these once-failing bars are keeping their cools.

Jon must teach four bickering Irish sisters how to manage conflict between one another so they can finally start managing their bar.

Maria Menounos helps Jon scout a deeply indebted L.A. beer bar where the owners are divided about whether to throw in the towel and sell or keep plugging away.

At a castle-themed bar, Jon must contend with a surly tyrant of an owner whose unruly temper has pushed his employees to their breaking points.

When the owner of an outdated college sports bar would rather spend his time playing fantasy football, Jon gives him a dose of reality.

Jon crashes the party at a failing bar where out-of-control bartenders would rather dance than pour drinks.

A failing beachfront bar is shut down after rodents invade the kitchen, and Jon is brought to tears by what the owners have endured.

The hippie-dippie owner of a Chicago music venue is more concerned with the spirit of wonderment than appealing to her trendy community, so Jon introduces some tough love.

It's deja vu when Jon returns to Second Base Bar to find it's once again on the brink of failure, leaving him to decide whether or not he wants to attempt a re-rescue.

An Irish bar owner's American dream threatens to go up in smoke when Jon discovers he's been withholding employees' paychecks to keep the business afloat.

A third-generation Milwaukee bar owner takes his father's legacy for granted and refuses to take on the inherited mantle of leadership.

An outrageous owner spends more time swinging from the rafters than managing his bar, and Jon is ready to abandon the rescue if the owner doesn't face reality.

Jon enlists a failing bar owner's ex-wife and former manager to help get the business back on course.

Jon shows up to help a former Philadelphia detective turned bar owner who has been hitting the bottle too hard after years on the force.

In order to save a failing Queens dive, Jon has to quell the raging tempers of three loudmouthed, firefighting brothers.

Jon must deflate the ego of a Puerto Rican bar owner who berates his staff and sons as his bar sinks further into debt.

The customers call the shots at a rowdy Staten Island bar where they pour their own drinks and cook their own food, so Jon tries to help the owners retake control.

Jon's crew gets caught in the middle of a massive brawl at a New York sports bar when the customers discover they're being served cheap booze at premium prices.

Thanks to an ill-advised promotion and sloppy maintenance, a nightclub is overrun by mosquitos, fruit flies and unruly minors.

Jon helps Justin and Michael, a pair of strippers who own The End Zone bar in Houston, put aside their differences before they lose more than just their shirts.

The lecherous owner of failing Texas dive Mary's Outpost crosses the line with one of Jon's experts.

Jon is called in to help the owner of an Omaha, NE, hookah bar whose money is going up in smoke thanks to his staff's frat-house ways.

Faced with a PDA-obsessed manager and an owner solely focused on his own retirement, the staff at Pat's Cocktails calls Jon for help.

Jon heads to Katy, Texas, to save Bryant's Ice House, which is plagued by a bad reputation, an even worse location and a wild staff.

Ever since extended family members were put on the payroll at The Tailgate in Santa Clarita, CA, business has taken a nosedive.

Maria Menounos helps Jon scope out a bar whose owner sits around as her husband does all the work and her dad picks up the bill.

The dysfunctional owners of the O Face Bar are so inexperienced and chaotic Jon doesn't even know if he wants to save their business.

A raccoon infestation is only the most extreme on a long list of problems plaguing KC's Bar & Grill and its checked-out owner.

Jon looks to re-establish a sense of unity at O'Banion's in Nebraska, where a binge-drinking owner has been usurped in a hostile takeover by his partners.

Jon must get identical twins with identical egos to see eye-to-eye if they are to curb a dangerous over-pouring problem and save RG's Lounge in Kansas City, MO.

Despite initial success, the owner of Longshots lost control of his feuding bar staff and may soon lose his house if Jon can't turn things around.

Jon helps bring a golf-themed establishment up to par by getting rid of the grime and reassessing the staff.

Jon challenges the owner of a beer-only bar being undercut by a BYOB liquor policy to harness her "redneck ingenuity" in order to save her business.

After a near-fatal heart attack, Artie, the owner of Alibi in Las Vegas, lost his zeal for the work, and it's up to Jon to help him get it back.

After the Bungalow Bar in Rockaway, NY, was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, Jon helps the owner rebuild in time for summer beach season.

Vegas bar Kerry's was meant as a gift from a grandpa to his family, but the grandkids' mismanagement threatens to squander everything.

Jon needs to change the attitude of a crass bartender and tweak the grisly decor if he hopes to save the Las Vegas goth bar The Underworld.

Jon steps in to help two brothers whose ill-conceived idea for a death-metal concert bar has drained their parents' retirement fund.

The owners of Marley's on the Beach may lose their business and their marriage if Jon can't reverse the financial strain put on them by the failings of their bar.

Chefs and best friends Christ and Mitch decided to open The Hammer in Las Vegas to cater to locals, but then a case of pneumonia caused everything to fall apart.

If Jon can't resurrect the menu and whip the staff into shape, then the coastal Massachusetts establishment Libads Bar & Grill will be lost at sea.

A juvenile name and bad reputation threaten the Fort Bragg-adjacent bar Cliques, and Jon will have to put the staff through bar boot camp to save it.

Jon must help a Yankee family learn to do business in the South if he hopes to save the poorly themed Characters Quarters in North Carolina.

Jon must correct the behavior of a drunk and verbally abusive owner if he's going to save the historic Gipsy, Las Vegas's first gay nightclub.

Jon must restore trust between owners and curb rampant theft among employees to save Barlow's, a failing Georgia sports bar.

Sisters Betsy and Stephanie spend most of their time at work tossing back shots, and it's up to Jon to keep these two from running their biker bar into a ditch.

Jon faces a real challenge with Cashmere Nightclub in North Carolina, where the wild manager thinks it's OK to sell cheap booze from pricey bottles.

A Las Vegas bar owner tries to pick up Nicole, leaving Jon in a frenzy and tough predicament. He also has to get the owner's partner to become a manager, get a new sound to attract more people and loosen gambling rules in their games.

Jon journeys to a comedy club, where he must assist the business with achieving more laughter and securing a larger amount of profit from the customers.

Owners Scott and Donna face foreclosure if Jon is unable to rescue Kid Chilleen's Badass BBQ by evicting the bar's equine and biker visitors.

Dimples in Burbank, CA, made history as America's first karaoke bar, but it won't have a future unless Jon can convince the owner to let go of the past.

Jon is brought in to help save a bar whose controversial lobster-tank claw-machine "game" drew protests from animal rights activists, which in turn drove away customers.

Jon must help the owner of The Kasbah in Aurora, CO, find a less rowdy clientele if he's going to save the once-thriving urban hot spot.

When tasked with rescuing an immigrant-owned pool hall in Denver, Jon finds the biggest obstacle is the owner's pride.

A bar and a marriage are on the line as Jon helps owners Tim and Sara save The Brixton, which is rapidly driving the couple into debt.

TJ Quills has a troublesome reputation for serving minors, which can only be resolved if Jon is able to convince the owner to give up his frat boy ways.

A roach infestation is just one of many problems Jon must face in order to save Headhunters, a fetish-themed tiki bar and music venue in Austin, Texas.

Jon heads to Bourbon Street to help the owner of Turtle Bay figure out how to make his bar stand out in one of the most popular drinking districts in the world.

Feuding bikini-clad bartenders wreak havoc on a California sports bar where the owner is more focused on partying than running a business.

Jon must go to war with the rowdy regulars of a Southern California dive bar once a popular haven for smokers until forced to comply with the law.

After getting out of the service, Navy vet Barry decided to buy an Ohio biker bar, but his lack of experience and the bar's prior reputation force him to call Jon for help.

To save Weber's Place, Jon must stamp out a culture of theft among the staff and get the bar's owner to start giving a damn.

Jon knew family-run Ohio bar The Black Sheep was in trouble before he arrived, but even he's surprised by the true nature of the bar's debt.

A 40-year-old dive bar in California is on the brink of collapse, and Jon must decide if the owner should stay in charge as manager or cede power to his daughter.

After a fatal club shooting, Jon must work to rehabilitate the reputation of the Mystique Lounge in West Palm Beach, FL.

Jon steps in to save J.A. Murphy's, a dive bar in Fell's Point, MD, on the brink of financial and physical collapse.

The Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar is in a prime Fort Lauderdale, FL, location, but the owner's neglect turned it into a dump that threatens to sink the attached hotel.

Jon faces a staff mutiny at Piratz Tavern when he forces the suburban Washington, D.C., bar to start catering to the city's professional clientele.

Jon helps the owners of an auto-themed bar tap the brakes on their tempers and hit the gas on getting their liquor license approved by city officials.

Jon is called in to help a former baseball player turned bar owner whose refusal to upgrade his inn allowed competing bars to lure his customers away.

Jon must get a lenient bar owner to reign in his raucous over-pouring bartenders if he is going to save a dated Burbank, CA, sports bar.

The constant feuding between the mother and son owners of The Blue Frog 22 in Chicago threatens the business's existence, forcing Jon to intervene.

The constant feuding between the mother and son owners of The Blue Frog 22 in Chicago threatens the business's existence, forcing Jon to intervene.

Jon must deal with a sprawling menu, a bad layout and a womanizing co-owner if he hopes to save Swanky Bubbles, a dysfunctional champagne bar in Philadelphia.

A bar owner's relationship with her incompetent manager causes complications as Jon tries to save their failing Irish pub on a Redondo Beach pier.

In order to save a failing Irish pub in Philadelphia, Jon must reinvigorate its owner, who was once a star chef.

In order to save a failing Irish pub in Philadelphia, Jon must reinvigorate its owner, who was once a star chef.

It's up to Jon to save a failing biker bar that's become more strip club than cocktail lounge thanks to its rowdy clientele.

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.

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.

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.

When a Chicago bar attracts more flies than customers, bar expert Jon Taffer steps in to save it before its game over. Get the inside scoop on this totally unique rescue.

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.

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 revisits one of his filthiest rescues ever at Joe's Thirsty Lizard with its inexperienced dishwasher turned manager.

Jon encounters a stubborn owner who is resistant to changing her failing pirate-themed bar in Silver Spring, Maryland, despite being $900,000 in debt.

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.

Jon challenges the partying owners of Kid Chilleen's Bad Ass BBQ Steakhouse in Arizona to go cold turkey and get serious about saving their business before their next bankruptcy hearing.

Jon looks back at the 10 most difficult rescues from the first three seasons, which included challenges like frat boy owners and natural disasters.

Sometimes anger is the only way Jon can get through to obstinate bar owners, so he's counting down his 10 angriest moments from the first three seasons.

Jon counts down the 10 worst owners he had to deal with on the first three seasons, including drunk owners, physically abusive owners and owners who withheld pay.

From mold to maggots, from rats to raccoon, Jon has seen it all, and now he's counting down the top 10 filthiest bars from the first three seasons.

In this lost pilot episode, Jon takes on the hot-tempered New Jersey owner of South Park Bar & Grill, who can't stop kicking customers and employees out of his bar.

A country music snob with an explosive personality turns to Jon for help.

Note: This episode was originally supposed to air on November 24, 2013. The day before, the owner of the bar was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing one of his patrons in an argument. Spike pulled the episode, which was scheduled at 9:00 PM on the 24th, and replaced it with a rerun. An oversight by the network, however, led to the intended 12:00 AM encore on the 25th airing as scheduled and drawing complaints from viewers.