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 wear gloves or 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.

--> '''Taffer:''' [[KickTheDog You get a $10 raise, per hour, if you throw your own employee through a glass window]]... How do you like it when he slaps you in the face?! ...Your bar isn't what's wrong, [[BrutalHonesty your character is what's wrong.]] The problem is [[StupidEvil you guys think this is okay.]] You guys are ''a mess''. My tolerance for an owner hitting an employee: ''zero''. You have no responsibility. None. You see, I have a reputation and I have to protect it. And you will destroy it, just like you destroyed your own. The ultimate ''coup de grâce'' is an owner hitting an employee. I am ''not'' going to rescue a bar, and then read in a newspaper that somebody got hurt here next week. I won't have any part of it. Since I've been here, you guys have proven to me you don't have the fundamentals to begin running this business, and have proved to me how irresponsible you are. So here's the deal. [[KnowWhenToFoldEm I'm leaving. I am not rescuing your bar.]] My advice to you is this, as another human being: you need some help and you need to pull your lives together. And then maybe you can save your business. You need a counselor, not a bar professional. But I'm done. This is the first bar rescue I've ever walked out on. You blew it. [[ScrewThisImOutofHere I'm gone. Good night.]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Another major recurring problem is drunk owners drinking the bar's liquor, often giving free drinks away to their friends, contributing to a bar's losses. It also clouds their judgment, keeping them from dealing with the bar's other problems.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: In "Whipped Into Shape" a bartender named Megan had a DarkAndTroubledPast 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.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Jon Taffer challenges Jesse from "Underworld" to prove his value by bringing women to the bar and keeping them since he had scared his recon off earlier in the episode. To Jon's own surprise, he actually gets a surprising number of women to come and, despite nearly folding, manages to serve them. Jon even concedes Jesse has proven his value in the business, though Jon still admits he's not sure what the girls see in Jesse.

* DirtyOldMan: The owner of Dimples drives away female clients by being uncomfortably intimate with them and using innuendo-laced dialogue and gimmicks.

*** And the reason that angers Jon the most: overpouring a customer's drink can quickly restrict or sabotage their ability to drink responsibly at their desired pace, a very dangerous practice.

%% * DirtyOldMan: The owner of Dimples, to a very uncomfortable degree.

[[caption-width-right:300:''I don't embrace excuses. I embrace solutions."]]

->''"I don't embrace excuses. I embrace solutions."''
-->--'''Jon Taffer''', during the opening narration of every episode.

"Running a bar is not just a business. It's a science."

** The O'Kelley's/Pastimes on 4th episode is basically a 60-minute Budweiser advertisement.

** 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.'''

** The owner of Galloping Goose cheated on his wife, had a baby while his wife was already pregnant and his wife actually wanted to give him a chance, and he had the gall to put in noe ffort and be mad at Jon for telling him the truth.

* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: Blue Frog 22, The Dirty Rooster, The Gallopin' Goose, and The Drunken Donkey.

** Taffer flat-out calls the owner of the Brixton a child.

** During the Hideaway Bar & Grill episode (season 8), the employees comment in private interviews that the owner drinks heavily enough to hurt the bar's business. None of them repeat those claims during Taffer's visit, either out of a sense of solidarity or because the owner has bullied them into silence, and they still keep silent even after Taffer plays back the interview footage for all to see. He finally gets fed up with being called a liar and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere pulls the crew out without doing the rescue]].

** He's walked out entirely in three cases to date (O'Face, Second Base re-rescue 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.

** Taffer has threatened to just walk out and not help the owner on more than one occasion (and sometimes will walk out for a while, or evening to let the owners and staff know just how close they are to having Taffer completely RageQuit from rescuing them). The one where he finally gave up and did just that was the O'Face Bar.

** Black Light District Bar has become the third bar that Taffer has walked out and chosen not to rescue, after the owner, Dave, made it clear all he wanted from the show was the free publicity, makeover, upgrades, and that he had no intentions of keeping any of the cocktails or management or theme changes that Bar Rescue was providing.

** 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.

** The chef from Pineapple Hill Saloon & 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.