History Series / BarRescue

** The chef from Pineapple Hill Grill, who’s guilty of serving long expired ribs and other meats with '''extreme''' levels of mold on them with customers none the wiser and cross-contaminating his entire kitchen by not bothering to wash his hands after handling raw product. Taffer and his experts point out that the former alone is enough to get someone really sick or even killed and proceed to give said chef a ''huge'' verbal beatdown for his negligence.

* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: Blue Frog, The Dirty Rooster, The Gallopin' Goose, and The Drunken Donkey.

** In the YNot Sports Pub and Grub episode, the YNot in the name reminds Taffer of Y-Not III.

** He's walked out entirely in two cases to date (O'Face and Black Light District), after seeing that the bars and their owners were just too screwed up to benefit from any help he could offer.

** The owner of TJ QUills hired his friends which as mentioned can make it difficult unfortunately these guys crossed lines even most people would put the friendship aside over. The bouncer didn't check IDs and got caught twice letting underage patrons in, the bartender would drink 1 shot per customer, and the worst was Spellman who would hit on female patrons and understandably scare them off. It's telling three people got fired this episode. Even Jon Taffer said the owner was a NiceGuy he just had no spine, luckily the outstanding new concept and decor along with his new management style has kept the place open to this day.

*** Going over the instructed amount of alcohol in a given drink overwhelms the accompanying ingredients, which not only renders them moot, but makes the drink typically an unappealing "straight", flavorless beverage.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: A recurring theme is people with no experience in the restaurant or hospitality industry buying bars with their life savings, apparently thinking that they're money-generating machines all by themselves.

---->"Look, I know bar ownership can be a dirty business but when owners slack on sanitation they risk getting people sick and nothing makes me angrier than when a lazy operator puts customers in danger."

** The alleged chef from Fairways Golf and Grill, who didn't even know how to cook a hamburger, and kept what was likely the most unsanitary kitchen to have ever appeared on the show. You know things are bad when the mixology expert gets sick ''off the beer.''

** While Taffer has gotten really upset quite often on the show, the angriest he ever got in the first two seasons was during the episode based around "J.A. Murphy's", when the chef, on hidden camera, picked up raw chicken with her bare hands, then started preparing nachos. The customer those nachos were for? [[ItsPersonal Taffer's daughter]]. Needless to say, righteous fury soon entered the bar in the form of Taffer.

** The owners at O'Face, in season three, were so incredibly hopeless that Taffer actually ''did'' give up and walk out on the rescue, saying he didn't want his name associated with them. Between the various police reports, the drinking by staff members, and the video evidence Taffer acquired of one of the co-owners physically injuring the bartender (he even tried to bribe his bouncer to ''throw the bartender through a glass window''), there was no chance in hell of their getting any help from Taffer. According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Rescue the show's page]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki, this is the only bar Taffer has refused to rescue in over thirty years of rescuing bars, or at least it was at the time.[[note]]The owners of O'Face were ranked #1 on Taffer's top 10 list of the worst owners he encountered during the first 3 seasons of the show.[[/note]] How bad were they? When Taffer arrived, the manager was fighting with a server. He ordered the owners to fire the manager. Instead, they ''[[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming fired the server]]'' for "stirring up trouble", and after he walked out, fired their bouncer, the one person who was on Taffer's side. The manager who instigated the assault on the server in the beginning was also re-hired.

* RightBehindMe: Two words: Desi Romano. This fifth season bar owner was drunk and flirting with patrons, not noticing for quite some time that Jon was standing right behind him. Even though someone else was trying to warn him of that fact.

** But it is ''not'' beneath Jon to yell at a female owner if they deserve it. In the 8th season episode at Ace's Sports Hanger, he lambastes the female owner for permitting bad practices and not caring enough ''for nine years'' to do things properly with the food at her bar.

%% * TheDollEpisode: Royal Oaks, as mentioned above.

%% * BigScrewedUpFamily: They pop up from from time to time, but the family from O'Face in "Punch-Drunk and Trailer-Trashed" takes this UpToEleven.

** Tim at The Brixton didn't seem to understand that people want to enjoy themselves in bars - right down to ''throwing people out for being loud''. Cranked UpToEleven when we are told that he has a degree in marketing and, in addition to to the above behavior, posted pictures of things like garbage and bloody feet on the bar's Twitter account under the genuine belief that it was a good idea.

** Taken UpToEleven on the O'Face episode. After losing a day of training to the staff arguing with each other and pointing fingers, and a disastrous stress test, Russell unleashes his Tranquil Fury like a boot camp drill instructor. HilarityEnsues.

%% * NiceHat: Mixologist Phil Wills and chef Nick Liberato and their paperboy visors.

* WomenAreDelicate: The owner of Park 77 believes this to the point where he refuses to bring in female employees. Taffer's expert, Mia Mastroianni, is quick to take him to task for this and floors him in a cocktail making race in both speed and quality.[[note]]In fairness to him, he indicated that he wasn't going to hire a female solely for her build. And he actually finished a hair behind her in the rematch featured on a "Back to the Bar" episode.[[/note]]

* InnocentlyInsensitve: In "Whipped Into Shape" a bartender named Megan had a DarkTroubledPast involving arrests and nearly dying. She has a breakdown at one point and a fellow bartender tells her YOuAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre pointing out she came so far from where she used to be and people used to tell her she would never get outof that lifestyle and this is her chance to prove them wrong. Megan, unfortunately, takes this as her past being thrown back in her face which is safe to say not how the bartender intended it to sound.

%% * InNameOnly: Longshots Sports Bar & Grill did not even have a TV for showing sports games.

** The "[[Film/{{Inception}} Inception Shot]]" at J.A. Murphy's is, as Taffer's daughter describes, "[[SerialEscalation a shot inside of a shot inside of a shot all in a pitcher]]" that is free if finished in 10 seconds or less. The poor guy who drinks the whole thing only manages to finish it in 16 seconds and is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome immediately hammered afterwards]].