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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
