Episode
Bar Rescue: Friends Without Benefits
Overview
In Downey, Jon tasks Phil Wills to help an iconic live music venue get back on its feet after years of neglect and mismanagement.
Details
- Series
- Bar Rescue
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2024-04-28
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Friends Without Benefits is Episode 10 in Season 9 of Bar Rescue. It aired on 2024-04-28. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 9: Losing the Playoffs
Jon heads to Palm Desert to help rescue a 20 year old bar that has failed to ever make a profit while navigating a complicated web of relationships.
Episode 11: Boca Re-Tune
Jon Taffer rescues a bar in Boca Raton, FL whose owner is failing to achieve the same success he found in the music industry as he is in the bar.
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Jon sends hospitality protégé, Dustin Drai, to Glendale, Arizona to rescue a local institution whose current owner is treating the bar as his personal hangout and giving away free drinks.
Episode 12: CSI: Los Cocos
Jon Taffer sends Ashish Alfred to Port St. Lucie, Florida to help three brothers save a bar they bought with no knowledge or experience of how to run it.
Episode 7: My Brother's Barkeeper
In Banning, California, a failing bar has caused a major rift between a brother and sister, and Jon Taffer must find a way to help them repair the damage.
Episode 13: From Camo to Cocktail
Jon comes to the rescue of a nearly 100 year old VFW Post that was decimated from Covid and struggles to hang on amidst a dwindling membership and decaying building.
Episode 6: Missing the Marc
Jon Taffer heads to St. Augustine, Florida to help a military vet rescue his struggling bar amidst poor sales and an unruly staff.
Episode 14: Thank You for (Not) Smoking
Jon Taffer heads to Margate, FL to fix a dive bar whose owners have not changed anything in the bar for over 20 years - including their smoking policy.
Episode 5: Low Five Dive
Jon Taffer attempts to rescue a bar in Tucson, Arizona whose owner has let the bar fall into disrepair despite the efforts of her skilled staff.
Episode 15: Inland Tavern, Underwater
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Episode 4: A Drunk, a Fruitfly, and a KnightWalk Into a Bar
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Episode 16: Dancing Dreams Dashed
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