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- Episode 23
Star Lite, Star Not So Brite
Bar Rescue - S6 - E23
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.
Bar Rescue: Season 6 - 47 Episode s
6x1 - Put It on Cody’s Tab
March 11, 2018
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.
6x2 - Close, But No Cigar
March 18, 2018
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.
6x3 - Weird Science
March 25, 2018
Two scientists struggle with the correct formula to run a successful bar.
6x4 - Ground Control to Major Jon
April 1, 2018
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.
6x5 - Mississippi Rears
April 8, 2018
A Navy vet finds himself in over his head when he relies on his unqualified friend to manage his failing Mississippi dive bar.
6x6 - Back to the Bar: Don't Call It a Comeback
April 15, 2018
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.
6x7 - Pole Without a Purpose
April 22, 2018
A soccer mom turned strip club owner refuses help from her daughter even though she's trained in hospitality management.
6x8 - An Ode to the Cap'n
April 29, 2018
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.
6x9 - Crazy Little Thing Called Selman
May 6, 2018
A frenetic bar owner with no prior bar experience drives the Copper Rocket Pub into the ground by bringing in carnivalesque entertainment.
6x10 - Caving In
May 13, 2018
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.
6x11 - Back to the Bar: Blue in the Frog Face
May 20, 2018
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.
6x12 - Down and Out in Las Vegas
June 3, 2018
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.
6x13 - Back to the Bar: The Power of Bacon and Beer
June 10, 2018
Jon looks back at some of his most successful turnarounds and asks the audience to share some of their favorite rescue memories.
6x14 - Father Knows Best
June 17, 2018
Jon visits the No Name Saloon, a rowdy biker bar where the owner refuses to trust his daughter's managerial skills.
6x15 - Phishing for Answers
June 24, 2018
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.
6x16 - Not Cleared for Takeoff
July 1, 2018
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.
6x17 - Back to the Bar: Tough Love
July 8, 2018
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.
6x18 - Fish Out of Blue Water
July 15, 2018
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.
6x19 - Operation Puerto Rico
July 22, 2018
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.
6x20 - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Fatballs
July 29, 2018
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.
6x21 - The Unwanted Saloon
August 5, 2018
Jon heads to middle-of-nowhere Tennessee to rescue The Wanted Saloon, whose remote location is just the first of many challenges.
6x22 - Back to the Bar: The Tradewinds of Change
August 12, 2018
Jon revisits bars The Tradewinds and 22 Klicks to see if their respective staffs are still working together or falling back into bad habits.
6x23 - Star Lite, Star Not So Brite
August 19, 2018
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.
6x24 - There Will Be Family Blood
August 26, 2018
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.
6x25 - The Lights Come Back in Puerto Rico
March 3, 2019
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.
6x26 - Dalia’s Inferno
March 10, 2019
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.
6x27 - Don’t Cry for Me Jon Taffer
March 17, 2019
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.
6x28 - Owner on the Run
March 24, 2019
Jon attempts to rescue The Original Hideout in Tucson, Arizona, despite that owner Ramiro is ,000 in debt and his brother Raoul is overwhelmed with his management duties.
6x29 - Twerking 9 to 5
March 31, 2019
A twerking, drinking, fighting staff threatens a once-thriving bar, leaving Ashley and Robert Gaddy's future at a Crossroads.
6x30 - Back to School
April 7, 2019
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.
6x31 - Tanked and Toasty
April 14, 2019
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.
6x32 - Miles from Success
April 21, 2019
Two rockers in need of money decided to open Kiva in a Texas college town, but their inexperience and apathy have cost them ,000.
6x33 - Uncivil War
April 28, 2019
Jon attempts to rescue Eliphino, a Las Vegas dive dar struggling because of an owner who makes bad decisions and more enemies than friends.
6x34 - LIV'n on a Prayer
May 5, 2019
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.
6x35 - Big Trouble in Little China Grove
May 12, 2019
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.
6x36 - Pie Hard
May 19, 2019
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.
6x37 - Driving Miss Tara
June 2, 2019
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.
6x38 - All Blaze, No Glory
July 14, 2019
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.
6x39 - Reckless Roundhouse
July 21, 2019
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.
6x40 - John and Bert Bought a Bar
July 28, 2019
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.
6x41 - Green Walls and Donkey Balls
August 4, 2019
Two best friends are acting more like jackasses than owners and find themselves on the verge of losing their bar.
6x42 - Doreen's Dilemma
August 11, 2019
The daughter of a longtime bar owner finds herself saddled with the responsibility of running his business after he abruptly passes away.
6x43 - Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bar
August 18, 2019
After a decade of success, a drag racing bar owner sees his profits go up in smoke.
6x44 - So We Meet Again, Mr. Taffer
August 25, 2019
Mark and Ozzie face Jon Taffer a second time in hopes that he will rescue another one of their failing bars.
6x45 - The Sound of Failing Music
September 15, 2019
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.
6x46 - Saving G.I. Jodi
September 22, 2019
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.
6x47 - Get Off Your Ass!
September 29, 2019
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.