- Remember the cocktail menu that we did? - Do we still have the menu?
- Yeah. - When I first saw Joe,
I knew I was in trouble. I know exactly what he's gonna order. I know exactly what
he's gonna expect of me. And I know I can't deliver it. (upbeat music) - I am here in middle Tennessee, outside of MT Bottles and Cans. That's right, they added
the MT right back on there. - [Jon] The MT might be back in the name, but the horse trailer entrance
I left is still standing. That's great. - So I walk in, I sit down. The theme's still going,
it's clean, it smells good. It looked like how Jon left it. (crowd cheers) - [Man] Bounce that ass. - One night, I come in after I got off my day
job, and I got a beer. It was like, wow, okay, well, it's better
than I thought it was. - Gina's change of heart means
the bar still looks great. The tailgate benches and
the mason jar lighting are still talking points. - Yes, what can I get for ya? Hold on, I know this face, Lisa. - I am, Jon sent me.
- Oh my god. When I saw Lisamarie, I knew
she's here to check on me. I need to try those cocktails that Jon and Russell put into place. I heard there was a dickle
pickle that's really delicious. - It really was delicious. - Was?
- I loved them We kinda had a problem
with our liquor license. So we're no longer able to
sell any type of liquor drinks. (crowd moans) - [Jon] This is a disaster,
securing a liquor license for MT Bottle turned this
place into a gold mine. Revenues were up 61%. - I wish they had liquor,
bloody Marys, tequila, yes. - No liquor at all?
- No liquor at all? - None?
- It's like giving a three-year-old a birthday cake, and then right as it's
time to blow up the candle, taking it and saying, nope,
it ain't your birthday. - I wanna see that basement. But wasn't there a fountain right there? - Yes ma'am, it was a
bathtub with a toilet. It froze up over the
winter and we didn't know how to fix it, so we removed it. - [Jon] Sometimes I
wonder why I even bother. The whole point of that
redneck toilet fountain was to pump away the toxic
water from the basement. I told Gina to keep an eye on it, or that water would come back. - So this is our natural spring. - There it is. (audience groans) - [Gina] It looks better than it smells. - Ugh, natural springs. - No, it is not as bad as it used to be. (audience groans) - I was really scared
to go into the basement, but I got my hands dirty, I got in there. I give 'em credit though that
it wasn't as bad as it was. But the smell was still there. - All right, Jon, I'm back here at, you would never guess, Lonie Walker's Underground Wonder Bar, it's not Clear Bar anymore, man. I don't even know what she's thinking. - I knew that Lonie was
gonna switch the name back. That's why I made her sign a contract promising she wouldn't. You won't change the name of the bar that we put in for a year. But by leaving one small
decal with the new name in a window, she's worked
around it, I knew it. - Bar Rescue cannot tarnish the wonder. Because when you walk in this door, something magical happens. No kidding, I got the good cop. - Wow, this bar is pretty crowded. And the interior looks pretty
similar to how I left it. I'm glad Lonie hasn't changed
it back to a hippie bar, which would be all wrong
for this neighborhood. We kept some of the things, but the Underground Wonder Bar
name really didn't go away. It couldn't, it couldn't. - Hey my man.
- Hey. - How's it going?
- Pleasantly surprised. Welcome back.
- Thank you. - Nice to have you back,
let me get you a drink. - Yes, please. - Since Jon left, I'm still
general manager of this place. I'm a man of many hats around here, with continuing to bartend a night here and there,
I'm performing as well. My mom has certainly has faith in me. That's for damn sure. - So Jordan, tell me about
the cocktail program. - The ice has melted away in a sense. (audience groans) We certainly kept the
drinks on the program. Just, you know-
- Oh great. - Yeah, as long as there's
some love put in the drinks, I'm okay with selling 'em like that. Perfect.
- Service with style. - All right, it's good.
- Nice. - Last time we came in here, she was serving frozen
pizza in the place of pizza. I hope to God that when
I open that freezer, there is no frozen pizzas there. - [Lonie] I'm ready. - God, Lonie!
(crowd groans) - [Lonie] It's good frozen pizza. - The antithesis of what
I do is a frozen pizza. Thank you so very much, Lonie, for not taking my food seriously. - [Jon] I wanna know if The Lister is finally making money
as the perfect hangout for local students that I created. - Jon Taffer sent us to The Lister to check out the bar tonight. - [Jon] So I'm sending in two recon spies from the university up the street. I also wanna check if Angelo is fulfilling his promise
to stay sober on the job. - Can I get you anything else, Maury? - No. - [Jon] This place is dead,
even Maury seems bored. And where's all the branding? The walls are bare. The whole fun theme based
on Frederick Lister is gone. - It's kind of empty,
we expected more people. - I wish there was more
decoration, to be honest. - JonFire Shot, what is that? - [Angelo] If you want,
I can make it for you. - Do you make this drink often? - This is probably the
second time I've made it. To be honest, I don't
know if it's right or not. - [Jon] Unbelievable, he can't even make the one cocktail he's
advertising right over his bar. - That's pretty sweet. - Well, I don't know the exact
portion, so I did my best. - [Jon] I did my best is not what you say when you're taking
someone's money for a drink. - Do you wanna take a shot with us? - [Angelo] No thank you, I'm good. - [Jon] But at least he's sober, drinking water and behaving himself. - I've changed, I do
not drink when I work. I want this bar to be successful and make it a fun place
for people to come. Thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you. People are telling us
there's like a dance floor. - [Jon] My vision for The Lister was to create a place where young students could mingle and meet new people. So I asked my spies to check
out the dance experience. (audience laughs) - Yeah, sure let's play
ping pong (laughs). - [Jon] Why is there a ping pong table in the middle of my dance floor? I need to know who is
making these decisions. - I'm the face of the business. The Lister photos are gone,
I took down the pictures. I don't know what those
pictures came from. This is our dance floor that we don't use. I think we need a better concept. The name, The Lister is just horrible. I just think Jon Taffer is full of (bleep) He thinks he knows what he's
doing here, but he doesn't. I think the remodel sucks. - [Jon] Angelo's solution
to driving a new business, adding a fricking hookah
tent to the back patio. Look at how shabby this thing looks. - So we're out here in
Pawcatuck, Connecticut, checking out The Handlebar. Jon sent me out here to see
how their systems are going, if everything is in place,
the way he left them. So we'll see where they're at now. - Dana, what do you want, honey? Let's go! Dave, get your mother a shot. Here we go sister, here we go. - [Jon] Nothing's changed with these two. They're back to being drunk idiots. The target demographic
of this bar is bikers. And I can't see one in here. This place is full of Betsy
and Stephanie's friends, all drunk sitting at the bar. And look at all the clutter Betsy put back behind the bar. Her kitschy design ideas are back. - How you doing? Jon sent me in. - Can I ask you not to
order the signature drinks? - But you have all this liquor. - When you guys came in here, and you taught me these signature drinks, it didn't work for this bar. These people are solid on
what the drink in here. They're very loyal to their drink, and to try to change them,
it's nearly impossible. - [Jon] Of course, every
bar needs regular drinks, but a specialized cocktail menu can be a major selling
point to new customers. That's why I added it. - Do you still know how to make them? - I could pull one out of my ass. - I don't want it out of your ass. - All right, to be honest with you, we've done about 10%
of what Jon suggested. (audience boos) Since Bar Rescue's been here, we definitely have increased in sales, I'm gonna say as much as 25%. That has a lot to do with
the curiosity seekers. The people come in here to see the show. The show is doing shots,
the show is low-cut shirts, this show is me going wild in here. This place runs on me playing
the game (bleep) every night. - I'd love to hang out here and
check out the show, I guess. - Phil, bring it on. (upbeat music) (women laugh) (audience boos) - How's Phil doing? Did you check on your customer? Doing good, Phil?
- Amazing. (crowd cheers) - [Jon] Cheese puffs are back? - What did you do with the equipment? - What we did with the kitchen is what we didn't do with the kitchen. This bar has never been
known for its food, but that's pretty clean,
don't tell me that- - That's pretty clean? (audience groans) What is this? I'm just staring at this. You can not tell me that's safe. That's not healthy.
(audience groans) Look at this, there's bugs stuck to it. - [Betsy] What the (bleep) am I gonna do? Sit in here with a flyswatter? - [ Jon] There's fricking
grease everywhere and dead bugs all over the place. This is a (bleep) show. - I've seen enough. They don't appreciate
what Jon did for them and all the stuff he put into the kitchen. So Jon, I'm taking it back. (audience cheers) - Phil, before you take that out of here, how about you come in here for one week and make that (bleep) work. - [Phil] Wouldn't be a problem. - That's mine, I pay taxes
on it, I own that (bleep). Phil sucks, Phil sucks,
we're calling Taffer. (audience boos) Go (bleep) yourself, go (bleep) yourself. (upbeat music) Jon has no clue what he's talking about. You know what? (bleep) you, Jon Taffer,
(bleep) you (bleep) you. - When we came here to
Antioch the first time, Rob was a hot mess. But when we left here, he was sober. He made us a promise that he
was gonna run a legit business and he was gonna follow all the things that we put in place for him. What we left was Lake Marie Lodge. But now they're calling it Dirty Rooster Presents, Lake Marie Lodge. I don't know, I'm really interested to see what's going on here. So I'm gonna go inside, check it out. - [Jon] What the hell is Rob
thinking, calling this place, the Dirty Rooster
Presents Lake Marie Lodge? The Dirty Rooster Presents? - Oh, no way, oh my god. - What's up, buddy? - When I walked in this place,
I wasn't here one minute and this guy had a drink in his hand. Are we staying off the rafters? - Well, we still get on the
bar and dance once in awhile. - So I'm curious, what of the things that I left are still on the menu? - Nothing.
- Nothing? - Nothing.
- Why? - It didn't take off,
it just didn't do it. - So is my boy Cesar in the kitchen? - Caesar's not here anymore. - Caesar's not in the kitchen? - No, no, Mike runs
the kitchen back there, and they are rocking it back there. - How much has the business improved? - Liquor sales went up, you know, they went up about 40, 50, almost 70%. - And food sales are almost 400% higher. - 400% higher? Excellent. - [Jon] Wait, I'm calling
(bleep) on those numbers. Before the rescue, the Dirty
Rooster menu was a joke that relied on disgusting
artificial nacho cheese. - That's disgusting. Caesar's taking cheese from a can. How do they expect to pull in their target demo selling that stuff? - [Jon] Once Nick gave them a menu with fresh ingredients, they were all set. - [Nick] We're gonna make
a fresh cheese sauce. You wanna try it? You can taste the freshness
in this dish, right? - It's really good. - I wanna try the top
five things on your menu. Whatever's selling the best. - Look at that table. That's an awesome table
of food right there. - [Jon] Nick's new menu has
been replaced by burnt pizza. - [Nick] It's separating, it's flaky. - [Jon] Stocky mac and cheese, and the canned cheese Rob
promised was gone is back. - [Nick] This cheese sauce is disgusting, this is canned sauce. - [Rob] That's actually
our biggest seller. - That's disgusting,
this tastes like (bleep) and I would never serve this. - It's what's expected here.
- Clearly. - And this is what the area would like. They like that canned sauce. - Those cheese fries (bleep) suck. - [Jon] Exactly, all the
we're learning about food here is that Rob wouldn't know fine dining if it the punched him in the face. Over the course of just a
few hours filming with Rob, what he didn't know is that we were rolling the cameras every
time he had a drink. Not surprisingly, by 6:30 p.m. he was flat drunk in front of customers and right back to his old ways. - Hey Rob, I have your shots! - [Woman] Shots, shots, shots. (customers cheer) - Cheers. (customers cheers) - Our girls' night. - To the girls' night! - I wouldn't really know
that Rob was the owner, because he definitely
drinks like he's a customer. - Somebody better be
buying me the next one, that's all I got to say. Jon really missed the mark when he said that I was wrong
for drinking at my own bar. I actually get phone calls if
I'm not here by nine o'clock. People are looking for me,
they come here to see me. I am the life of the party. (customers cheer) - When we left here, he promised Jon and I that he'd never drink at
this establishment again. And here's he's back to his old ways. - Shot, shot, shot, shot! - [Announcer] Jon and
Terry observe from the SUV as Joe and Sarah enter
Second Base to investigate what has become of Jon's
initial transformation. - Smells awful in this place. - What can I get for you? Do you have a cocktail menu? - We don't. - [Joe] You don't have a cocktail menu? - No, we have food. - Well, we definitely want some food. (upbeat music) - It's been so long. Remember the cocktail menu that we did? - Do we still have the menu? - [Joe] Yeah. - When I first saw Joe,
I knew I was in trouble. I know exactly what he's gonna order. I know exactly what
he's gonna expect of me. And I know I can't deliver it. I can make you one of them. - Let's do it. - [Sara] Which one? - Let's see what you remember. - Do you wanna do the grand margarita, because that's one of
our signature drinks? - She's approachable. And I'm glad to hear that
she's the one doing training, but we lost all of those drinks and such. And I've got to tell ya,
they gave us an identity. - That's not the color of
a margarita by any chance. Thank you. Do you have the other
menu, the Second Base menu? - Yeah, but you're not gonna be able to get anything off of it,
he doesn't make it anymore. - I can really go for a pastrami sandwich. - We're out of pastrami. - Do you have like a turkey sandwich? - No, we're out of turkey.
- Come on. - That's not my call. - Best (indistinct) ever. - I'll get it for you. - The cocktail program is
gone, the menus are gone. You're saying to me that these competitors took it away from you. I'm suggesting you gave it to 'em. - [Sarah] What is that smell? - I swear it's not me. - It's awful, it's like (bleep) terrible. I know a few cat hoarders, and this is what it smells
like at their house. And this margarita is awful. - It's here, I have it, I wiped
off the dust and everything. - Yay.
- This is good. - He doesn't put them out anymore. - Can I order The Closer, the
bourbon drink, can I try that? This is just like too much
orange juice for me, yeah. - Yeah, sure. - Hey Sara, Sara, The Bar
Rescue menu, I no use it. - I know, they still wanna see it. - But I don't have nothing. - Okay.
- Okay, thank you. - What happened? I can understand all the other stuff. - Gary can't do it by himself. I am not here enough to be able to do it. Terry doesn't care to do
it, it's not our fault. - They're sort of blaming
you a little bit here, Terry. - I'm just gonna order a beer, I think. - Bottle or draft? - What's wrong with draft? Nothing.
- I'll have a draft. - Got it. - And that's definitely not our forte, with the old kegerators. - How you been?
- I'm good, Gary, how you been? - I've seen better days. - Me too, what happened? - I still couldn't have control of decisions of what I wanted to do. - Is that true? - That's not true. - Terry believes that he
knows what he's doing. It's like, no matter what. - Okay, so when you yell at me because this beer is not cold enough- - Was I yelling at you? - Not yet, you're not. (dramatic music) - It's pretty bad, you
see the bubbles in it? - [Sara] No. - Everything that you
taught them, I loved it. - I did too. - But when I hear no
one's gonna buy that crap, just sell shots. - That is not even close to being true. - He's not stepping up and
making anything better. So I say, we go in,
let's call him out on it, and let's try to fix this, okay? - Okay.
- Let's do it. (dramatic music) - Whoa, you smell it?
- Yeah. - Wow. - Kinda used to the smell by now. - Look at the filth in this place. And this is what Gary is
doing to run this place. Let's go talk to Gary.
- Okay. - Hi Gary. - How are you doing, Jon? - What the (bleep) happened? - It went south. - This is go south? What happened, man? - Bigger sports bars
moved in as neighbors. - So there was bigger sports bars. Did they have cocktail programs? - Possibility. - They do, do you? - No. - But you did, didn't you? - We did. - Did they have good food menus? - Real good food menus. - Do you? - No. - But you did, didn't you?
- Yep. - Do they have clean bars?
- Yep. - Do you?
- No. - But you did, didn't you?
- Nope. - Yes you did. When I left this bar was fricking
clean and it didn't stink. So why did all this stuff go away? - No money to fix it. - No money to fix it. You think they took your customers? Or do you think you gave 'em to them? So you don't have any
pride in the business. Do you give a (bleep)? - Yeah, I give a (bleep), I put a lot of time in this (bleep) bar. - I've watched you sit on your ass tonight in that back room. Where's the last time you cleaned that? - [Sara] We've cleaned it, but he's got a million other things to do. - What? - He's got the bookkeeping,
he's got the inventory. He's got the shift changes. - Is that why nobody knows
how to make any drinks? Is that why our beer sucks? Is that why this place still smells? 'Cause Gary doesn't have the time? - At what point do you realize that you're just putting too much in when there's nothing
coming out either way? I mean, what is he gonna do? He doesn't know how to fix a kegerator. - But he can clean a
fricking light fixture. - Then we have clean light
fixtures and still warm beer. - But it's an effort. So now (bleep) everything, do nothing, is that what you're saying? - We've been trying to do everything that we can (bleep) possibly do. - Where is this stench coming from? Under the floor again? I'm guessing there's mice, filth, bacteria and water underneath that floor. Sorry, this is (bleep) and you know it. The floor stinks, I can smell it. That is the most disgusting
I have ever freaking seen. Look at that. Look at it all dripping down here. You can see it. Do you like it? There you go man, right
where it belongs, on you. - I did let some things go. But sometimes it gets hard
when you don't get cooperation. And when I look to Terry
for help, he's not there. I wanna cut this floor open,
bring in my team please. Chip, cut open this floor. (saw buzzes) That's what's under this floor, run off from that drain
and run off from this. That's why your fricking bar stinks. You have one thing going for you. My (bleep) reputation is on this bar, and that might save your ass in the end, but it doesn't save you tonight. You're a (bleep) prick. (dramatic music) - I need help. Terry's not giving me what I want. He's not leaving me in charge, basically. He still has the say
overall, it's his place. (upbeat music) - Hi, this is Jon Taffer. Click here to subscribe
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