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First Aired: July 17th, 2011

Genre: Reality

Network: Spike

Summary: 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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Season 6

Episode 1: Put It on Cody’s Tab

Air Date: March 11st, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 2: Close, But No Cigar

Air Date: March 18th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 3: Weird Science

Air Date: March 25th, 2018

Summary: Two scientists struggle with the correct formula to run a successful bar.

Episode 4: Ground Control to Major Jon

Air Date: April 1st, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 5: Mississippi Rears

Air Date: April 8th, 2018

Summary: A Navy vet finds himself in over his head when he relies on his unqualified friend to manage his failing Mississippi dive bar.

Episode 6: Back to the Bar: Don't Call It a Comeback

Air Date: April 15th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 7: Pole Without a Purpose

Air Date: April 22nd, 2018

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

Episode 8: An Ode to the Cap'n

Air Date: April 29th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 9: Crazy Little Thing Called Selman

Air Date: May 6th, 2018

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

Episode 10: Caving In

Air Date: May 13rd, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 11: Back to the Bar: Blue in the Frog Face

Air Date: May 20th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 12: Down and Out in Las Vegas

Air Date: June 3rd, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 13: Back to the Bar: The Power of Bacon and Beer

Air Date: June 10th, 2018

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

Episode 14: Father Knows Best

Air Date: June 17th, 2018

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

Episode 15: Phishing for Answers

Air Date: June 24th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 15: Phishing for Answers

Air Date: June 24th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 16: Not Cleared for Takeoff

Air Date: July 1st, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 17: Back to the Bar: Tough Love

Air Date: July 8th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 18: Fish Out of Blue Water

Air Date: July 15th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 19: Operation Puerto Rico

Air Date: July 22nd, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 20: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Fatballs

Air Date: July 29th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 21: The Unwanted Saloon

Air Date: August 5th, 2018

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

Episode 22: Back to the Bar: The Tradewinds of Change

Air Date: August 12nd, 2018

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

Episode 23: Star Lite, Star Not So Brite

Air Date: August 19th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 24: There Will Be Family Blood

Air Date: August 26th, 2018

Summary: 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.

Episode 25: The Lights Come Back in Puerto Rico

Air Date: March 3rd, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 26: Dalia’s Inferno

Air Date: March 10th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 27: Don’t Cry for Me Jon Taffer

Air Date: March 17th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 28: Owner on the Run

Air Date: March 24th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 29: Twerking 9 to 5

Air Date: March 31st, 2019

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

Episode 30: Back to School

Air Date: April 7th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 31: Tanked and Toasty

Air Date: April 14th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 32: Miles from Success

Air Date: April 21st, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 33: Uncivil War

Air Date: April 28th, 2019

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

Episode 34: LIV'n on a Prayer

Air Date: May 5th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 35: Big Trouble in Little China Grove

Air Date: May 12nd, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 36: Pie Hard

Air Date: May 19th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 37: Driving Miss Tara

Air Date: June 2nd, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 38: All Blaze, No Glory

Air Date: July 14th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 39: Reckless Roundhouse

Air Date: July 21st, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 40: John and Bert Bought a Bar

Air Date: July 28th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 41: Green Walls and Donkey Balls

Air Date: August 4th, 2019

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

Episode 42: Doreen's Dilemma

Air Date: August 11st, 2019

Summary: The daughter of a longtime bar owner finds herself saddled with the responsibility of running his business after he abruptly passes away.

Episode 43: Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bar

Air Date: August 18th, 2019

Summary: After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner sees his profits go up in smoke.

Episode 44: So We Meet Again, Mr. Taffer

Air Date: August 25th, 2019

Summary: Mark and Ozzie face Jon Taffer a second time in hopes that he will rescue another one of their failing bars.

Episode 45: The Sound of Failing Music

Air Date: September 15th, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 46: Saving G.I. Jodi

Air Date: September 22nd, 2019

Summary: 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.

Episode 47: Get Off Your Ass!

Air Date: September 29th, 2019

Summary: 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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