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today's video we're going to discuss some more Bar Rescue Bars and what they're up to today so
sit back relax and without further ado let's get right into the content guys why not sports pub
grub just like in our previous video we're gonna first discuss how the bars were before the changes
were made and then get into how they're doing presently in the case of why not sports pub
grub that appeared in the fifth season of the show it was run by john ellis and yvette otto
while both had experience in managing from their past jobs they believed that handling the bar
would be a breeze but boy were they wrong since the stresses of running a successful drinking
establishment caught up to them with a mountain of expenses things became even worse when an arena
opened across the street from them taking away most of their customers another huge factor in
their failure was their employees who had poor bartending skills and would drink on the job
the worst addition to their team was their head chef felt like he can make whatever he wanted
which often resulted in bad food amassing over 150 grand in debt from all this the pair really needed
to seek the help of the bar genius jon taffer upon jonn's arrival he was absolutely shocked by how
horrible their efficiency was and how filthy the kitchen had become jon managed to verbally lash
the owners into firing three useless workers but it was for the best because this is when changes
started to be made the bar rescue team changed the name from why not to the forbidden pub made
tons of renovations and menu changes with easy to make and delicious items despite all of his help
the bard changed their name back two months later because they felt it didn't change their success
at all they even brought back old menu items it shouldn't be much of a surprise but when you don't
listen to an expert and do what you want your business will most likely close down which is
exactly what happened to these guys we don't feel bad celebrity sports girl two brothers named mark
and reich zahir were both part of the u.s military before becoming bar owners after reich was injured
by a grenade while in afghanistan both returned to the states and decided to make a new life
for themselves already having a restaurant and bar experience they opened the celebrity sports
grill which brought in 200 000 a month easily but after they opened the fundraiser to support
the community's veterans giving the money to a man who supposedly was never in the army
they got a ton of negative attention this resulted in them losing a lot of customers and they were
starting to run out of food and drinks to sell jon came to the rescue admitting right off
the bat that the bar's decor was confusing and kept pointing out how much of a failure max was
max would lash out and insult customers who gave negative feedback and would care less about his
employees many of them barely knew how to mix a drink and were unfamiliar with the menu items
because he was a horrible manager the celebrity workers all hated max but jon managed to bring
them together and put them to work teaching the team a ton of necessary skills changing
the name from celebrities to the victory bar and restaurant and adding color and new equipment to
the interior gave viewers the impression they were going to do well sadly the bar closed down
before the episode even aired only managing to stay afloat for a month after the renovations
they received nothing but bad reviews and the employees were still mistreated and were paid late
today the brothers relocated their celebrities bar to san bernardino which is surprisingly doing well
and has good reviews city bar rolling the dice and leaving his corporate job brad stegman opened
the city bar in 2015 located in las vegas quickly he began to see that his gamble would be one that
he would regret while he'd always wanted to open his own bar he was months away from closing down
a big reason is that he only has four employees working for him kim belinda elizabeth and a
bartender named megan megan is simply put a criminal who has been charged and sentenced
for gross larceny but thankfully she turned herself around she couldn't find a job since
many employers felt like she was untrustworthy but brad was willing to give her a chance
how nice relying on the success of this job to support her 10 year old daughter she really had
to put her all into this especially since brad put the responsibility of finding live entertainment
on his bartenders it became a very stressful job for them the atmosphere was even described to be
unpleasant which would drive off customers time and time again with a debt of over hundred fifty
thousand dollars the city bar team really needed jon taffer's guidance if they wanted to succeed
jon was unimpressed by the bar's odd choice of decoration piss-poor bartending skills and
countless health code violations after attempting to correct the staff's behavior he changed the
name of the bar to the bradley naming it after its owner and fixed the interior's decoration
soon after the episode though bradley dipped and sold the business to someone else who renamed it
to the sahara lounge which comically hosts bdsm parties on tuesdays weird freaky tiki
majority owner frank thuriel bought the freaky tiki back in 2008 with the
help of his longtime friend sean trimp who invested in exchange for 2.5 of the business
they both used to work in a nightclub together and felt they could do it better which wasn't
completely wrong investing a total of five hundred thousand into the business they grossed over a
million dollars in their first year and were the talk of the town with their booming success they
brought in their friend woody kruger to manage the bar and were making truckloads of money
though the success went to their head and the owners especially frank started to lose their
professionalism drinking with customers and doing very inappropriate things since they
started to care less about running things they eventually put themselves in a rut losing 6500
a month frank sean and woody were all panicked weeks away from closing and declaring bankruptcy
they spammed jon with emails and he finally answered coming with two experts jon and his
group were horrified by how tacky the design was and the offensively bad food that was being served
in the bar he catches frank calling to his bartenders to get him some shots which is
clearly not what an owner should do with frank's almost hopeless state jon had to give him his
usual verbal lashing to get his act together in the end many changes were made especially the
interior which had a complete aesthetic overhaul with added games and new equipment the name was
changed as well from freaky tiki to frankie ts to try to disconnect from its messy frat-like image
but to no one's surprise the bar closed down shortly after the episode aired in april of
2016 since many of the issues like frank had not improved oh well the arena mike floor purchased a
failing restaurant back in 2001 with the intention of turning it around and starting his own bar
like many other people on the show he really wanted to have a bar of his own but
in this case he had 10 years of restaurant experience under his belt to back him up
for over nine straight years the arena was an amazing success with mike making the business over
a hundred fifty thousand dollars a month slowly though new bars started to emerge with new shiny
designs which stole a lot of the bars frequent customers with this bar declining mike started
to take out his frustrations on his staff and the customers who came in staff had admitted that they
think mike is quite a scary guy and sometimes he can be quite intense which is a very toxic
environment to be in losing over ten thousand dollars a month the owner agreed to call on john
tafford to help fix his failing bar and massive million dollar debts john was easily able to
identify the reason why this bar was failing and it should be pretty obvious by what was just said
well of course there were a lot of issues with the food and drink quality the biggest problem was
mike because of his stubbornness and frustration the bar looked dated old and even looked like it
was closed he would scare off customers by degrading them throwing plates on the table
really saying here like he could care less if they got their food or not this caused some
tension between mike and the bar rescue host who had a verbal showdown in one part of the episode
somehow jon was able to tame the beast and mike and they were able to make some changes
like how they refined the menu and revamped the interior the arena was rebranded to the curtain
call in 2015 and has an amazing four stars on yelp however the owner mike was sentenced to
five years in prison in 2016. its success has to be credited to the new owner well
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