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First Aired: July 17th, 2011
Status: Continuing
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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A Perla in the Rough
Air Date: March 31st, 2024
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# of Episodes: 260
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Season 3
Episode 1: Turtle on Its Back
Air Date: February 10th, 2013
Summary: For a bar to fail on Bourbon Street in New Orleans it takes a special kind of incompetence.
Episode 2: Rock N Roaches
Air Date: February 17th, 2013
Summary: Jon Taffer descends on a grotesque goth and rock bar in Austin, TX. Tasteless performances and cockroach infestations are the least of his problems as he spars with the worst bar owner to date.
Episode 3: Bro's Got to Geaux!
Air Date: February 24th, 2013
Summary: Jon schools the owner of a beat-up college bar with a reputation for serving underage drinkers.
Episode 4: Tears for Beers
Air Date: March 3rd, 2013
Summary: A too-hip-for-its-own-good bar in Austin may need a hip replacement if it is to survive.
Episode 5: Empty Pockets
Air Date: March 10th, 2013
Summary: A Denver pool hall owned by a proud immigrant gets help.
Episode 6: Jon T, He Don't Like It
Air Date: March 17th, 2013
Summary: The formerly rocking Kasbah Lounge in Aurora, Colorado, which has fallen on hard times, is made over.
Episode 7: In a Pinch
Air Date: March 24th, 2013
Summary: The locals are up in arms over a controversial lobster-tank game at a blue-collar watering hole.
Episode 8: Karaoke Katastrophe
Air Date: March 31st, 2013
Summary: Jon makes over one of the country's first karaoke bars, dealing with outdated decor, a hot-under-the-collar chef and an owner who's oblivious to what's going on in his place, and a hoarder to boot.
Episode 9: A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Air Date: April 7th, 2013
Summary: Horses defecating inside this Arizona bar are the least of Jon Taffer’s problems. He must contend with drunk owners, a family in turmoil, and a bank foreclosure if he hopes to save this business.
Episode 10: Meat Sauna
Air Date: April 14th, 2013
Summary: Bad ventilation cause hot, moist burger smoke to fill Scottsdale’s least funny comedy club. Jon Taffer arrives to clear the air and use proven bar techniques to create bigger laughs and bigger profits for the troubled owners
Episode 11: Don't Mess With Taffer's Wife
Air Date: July 7th, 2013
Summary: An aggressive Las Vegas bar owner tries to pick up Nicole Taffer, sending Jon into a rage. Can he set this owner’s wandering eyes straight and save a once famous blues bar without coming to blows first?
Episode 12: Don't Judge a Booze by its Bottle
Air Date: July 14th, 2013
Summary: North Carolina’s Cashmere Nightclub has a bad name, poor décor and an embarrassing manager, but when Jon learns that they are refilling premium liquor bottles with cheap booze, all hell breaks loose.
Episode 13: Two Flew Over the Handlebars
Air Date: July 21st, 2013
Summary: Two buxom sisters have driven their biker bar in Pawcatuck, Connecticut into a ditch. Can Jon get these party women to stop binge drinking and focus on the real assets of their bar?
Episode 14: There's No Crying in the Bar Business
Air Date: July 28th, 2013
Summary: Jon heads to a Georgia sports bar and encounters an owner who’s incessant crying seems to prevent her noticing the massive employee theft issue occurring right under her nose.
Episode 15: Play Some Janet Jackson!
Air Date: August 4th, 2013
Summary: Las Vegas' first gay nightclub, Gipsy, is months from closing its doors thanks to its verbally abusive and over intoxicated owner.
Episode 16: Characters Assassination
Air Date: August 11st, 2013
Summary: A poor concept is among the problems hampering a North Carolina bar run by a family of Yankees.
Episode 17: Corking the Bunghole
Air Date: August 18th, 2013
Summary: 13 miles from Fort Bragg, Cliques suffers from a juvenile name and a repugnant reputation. Jon puts a bar's owners through a personal bar boot camp to attract the local military personnel.
Episode 18: A Bar Full of Bull
Air Date: August 25th, 2013
Summary: Jon tries to help two siblings from wasting their father's retirement with a rickety mechanical bull in a New England bar.
Episode 19: Beer and Loathing in Las Vegas
Air Date: September 8th, 2013
Summary: Jon visits a struggling blue-collar joint in Las Vegas, where he deals with the strained friendship between the two classically trained chefs who own and operate it.
Episode 20: Barely Above Water
Air Date: September 15th, 2013
Summary: Taffer makes two bars out of one in an attempt to save both a beachfront bar in Warwick, Rhode Island, and the owner’s marriage.
Episode 21: Crappy Cantina
Air Date: October 6th, 2013
Episode 22: Jon of the Dead
Air Date: October 13rd, 2013
Episode 23: Grandpa Got Run Over by His Grandkids
Air Date: October 20th, 2013
Summary: Jon tries to turn around a Las Vegas establishment owned by a man whose family is wasting his money.
Episode 24: Hurricane Jon vs Hurricane Sandy
Air Date: October 27th, 2013
Episode 25: Drunk & Dirty Dolls
Air Date: November 3rd, 2013
Summary: 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.
Episode 26: Empty Bottles Full Cans
Air Date: November 10th, 2013
Summary: Customers bringing in their own booze and bartenders flashing their boobs aren’t Jon’s biggest problems with this Tennessee watering hole. Taffer must ignite a lazy owner’s ingenuity to save the bar from going bust.
Episode 27: Hole in None
Air Date: November 17th, 2013
Summary: This golf-themed bar is a swing and a miss and its horrendous sanitary conditions are completely out of bounds. Jon must clean house and get rid of the filth as well as the staff responsible for making his expert sick.
Episode 28: Music City Mess
Air Date: November 24th, 2013
Summary: Jon attempts to turn around a Nashville bar with a dated concept. Note: The episode was originally supposed to air on November 24, 2013, but was replaced with an encore after the owner was involved in a fatal shooting.
Episode 29: Brawlin Babes
Air Date: December 8th, 2013
Summary: A sports bar with no TV's isn't Jon's biggest problem at this Missouri establishment. Taffer must get brawling buckle bunny bartenders and their spineless owner to unite in one common cause: Gut the competition!
Episode 30: Twin vs. Twin
Air Date: December 15th, 2013
Summary: Lights, sirens and handcuffs greet Jon before he even enters the door of this Kansas City bar. Sibling rivalry between two identical twins with identical huge egos present Taffer with one of his toughest rescues.
Episode 31: Hostile Takeover
Air Date: March 9th, 2014
Summary: O'Banion's Bar & Grill Omaha, NE A heavy drinking owner of an Irish sports bar is the subject of a hostile takeover… by his co-owners!
Episode 32: Critters and Quitters
Air Date: March 16th, 2014
Summary: KC's Bar & Grill in Shawnee, Kansas
Episode 33: Punch Drunk & Trailer Trashed
Air Date: March 23rd, 2014
Summary: A dysfunctional family’s feuding pushes Jon Taffer to the limit. Will their outrageous antics force Jon into an extreme decision?
Episode 34: Scoreboard To Death
Air Date: March 30th, 2014
Summary: Wrangling with an incompetent owner and under trained staff; actress Maria Menounos guest stars.
Episode 35: Grow Some Meatballs!
Air Date: April 6th, 2014
Summary: Issues at a family-run bar include a forceful patriarch and an impending disaster in the kitchen.
Episode 36: Taxed Out in Texas
Air Date: April 13rd, 2014
Summary: Jon visits a struggling biker bar owned by a former tax accountant.
Episode 37: When Life Doesn't Hand You Lemons
Air Date: April 20th, 2014
Summary: Pat's Cocktails North Hollywood, CA Too busy canoodling to notice his staff is sinking, a manager treats his bar like a romantic playground, forcing Taffer to demand inside help from the bartenders.
Episode 38: I Smell A Rat
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: Oasis Hookah bar in Omaha, NE is in dire straits. They serve toxic drinks and have terrible service. To top is all off, there's a dead rat somewhere in the building, but nobody knows where.
Episode 39: Scary Mary's
Air Date: May 4th, 2014
Summary: The owner of a struggling Texas dive crosses the line with one of Taffer’s experts.
Episode 40: Muscle Madness
Air Date: May 11st, 2014
Summary: The End Zone Houston, TX Two muscle-bound meatheads can't see pec-to-pec on how to run their Houston bar. Now, their tempers and testosterone threaten to tear their friendship apart.
Episode 41: Taffer's Top 10: Most Disgusting Bars
Air Date: June 22nd, 2014
Summary: Counting down the ten most disgusting bars encountered during the first three seasons.
Episode 42: Taffer's Top 10: Worst Owners
Air Date: June 22nd, 2014
Summary: Taffer's Top 10: Worst Owners
Episode 43: Taffer's Top 10: Angriest Moments
Air Date: June 29th, 2014
Summary: 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.
Episode 44: Taffer's Top 10: Toughest Rescues
Air Date: June 29th, 2014
Summary: Jon looks back at the 10 most difficult rescues from the first three seasons, which included challenges like frat boy owners and natural disasters.
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