- On a count of three,
I'm gonna let you turn around and see your new bar.
One, two, three.
- [Man] Oh! - [Woman] Oh, that's just-
- [Man] What that fuck is that?
- [Woman] I'm scared (indistinct) less.
(upbeat music)
- Hi Lonie? - Hi Jon.
- How do you feel? - Excited.
- Do you, do you trust me right now?
- Nope.
- You are the most difficult owner I've ever dealt with.
Right across the street they're making $101,000 a year.
You have a built-in audience right across the street.
But when I got here, Lonie, you were on stage
playing the wrong music to the wrong crowd.
You are putting your performance
ahead of the performance of the business.
It was unsophisticated and not right for River North,
that is sophisticated.
I had to change it.
River North, needs to have some sophistication,
and that's what we gave you.
Do you guys ready to see it? - Hell yeah.
- On count of three turn around.
(giggling)
Here we go.
One, two. (chuckles)
Three.
- [Woman] Oh wow.
(screaming)
- [Woman] Oh my God.
- [Woman] It is clear.
It's clear for great food.
- [Woman] It looks beautiful.
- It's very clear that it's not Underground Wonder Bar.
I was hoping that I would like the name, I don't.
I thought it would signifying music,
and clear does not signify music to me.
- This place looks awesome.
I was not a fan of the original exterior.
So it definitely is an upgrade.
- You like it?
- [Clear Bar Workers] Yeah.
- This is the kind of exterior, we need in River North.
And Lonie, what does that say?
- [Lonie] Live music.
- Still who we are.
Still an important part of our identity.
We just now packaged that stage for a new generation.
What do you think, Lonie?
- I'm just really excited to see inside, honestly.
- I bet. - [Lonie] Yeah.
- You guys ready to see it?
- [Clear Bar Workers] Yes. - Go ahead.
- [Man] Yeah, all right.
- [Woman] Oh. Oh my God. - [Man] Yeah, man.
- [Woman] (indistinct) simple.
- [Woman] Oh my God.
(upbeat music)
- Look at this, look at this, it's ice.
- Oh my goodness.
The place looks great.
The ice block behind the bar,
is an unbelievable eye catching piece.
- [Woman] Oh my God. - My God.
- [Woman] My God, I love it. - [Woman] Oh my God.
- [Woman] Look at this stone.
- I absolutely love what Jon did.
He took away the dungeon feel, it's wonderful.
- [Lonie] Wow. - [Akuba] Oh my God.
- [Lonie] Wowie zowie, wowie zowie, wowie zowie.
- [Akuba] Oh my God.
- I don't deal with change very well,
but I love what I've seen and felt,
and that's the most important thing.
Oh, hell yeah.
That is beautifully made,
and Jon, has managed to keep slick and warm,
and I think that's a tough thing to achieve.
Change is good.
(laughing)
- The Underground Wonder Bar before, was really dingy,
but now it's really clean and modern,
and it really has a young feel to it.
(crowd cheering)
- Friends and family, we got a kick ass new bar for you
to come check it out, come check out Clear Bar.
(crowd cheering)
- Hey, Hey, Hey God.
Hi!
- How are we doing tonight friends and family.
- Welcome home.
- Okay, three Clear Collins, you got it.
- Okay, here we go.
- [Woman] Fresh slate, you want the Art and Money Mule.
Sounds good.
- Flat bread, bacon.
- [Woman] That's beautiful.
- Table 102.
- [Woman] Clear Collins, right here.
- Our guys need Clear Collins,
I love it man, it's pretty sweet.
- Ladies, what's going on?
Is all the food getting out fast enough?
- [Woman] Every single plate.
- All right awesome. - [Woman] You're the man.
- [Jordan] Thank you ladies.
- [Woman] No, we are the women's.
- Hey Max, I got some fresh lemons for you here.
- [Woman] Hmm, it's good.
- Welcome, very happy to have you guys in here
to check out the new space.
- Jordan, on a four's is effective.
He knows what's going on at his tables.
He knows what's going on behind the bar,
and he knows what's going on in the kitchen.
By staying involved, he's solving problems.
He can lead this bar to success.
How are you doing?
- More busy, more business.
- This room was a dungeon before,
nobody wanted to come in here.
Now it's full, it's lively and it's making money.
- Who wants some live music?
(crowd cheering)
(playing guitar)
- Success of this bar, was to take us to the music venue
into a bar that had music.
I never thought Lonie would turn around.
I didn't even think Jordan,
could get her to turn around, but she did.
He's a good manager Lonie.
You guys got a great concept.
Look at this.
Band is playing, room is full.
Everybody's happy.
- [Jordan] Get in. - Get it in.
- This experience, you know the process (indistinct).
But walking through the bar tonight, I feel really proud.
Do I trust Jon?
Yes, because this will work.
(suspenseful music) - One, two, three.
(cheering) - [Woman] Oh my God.
(clapping and laughing)
- [Woman] Awesome, they changed the name.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Woman] Bottles and Cans.
- [Woman] How did it become to Bottles and Cans.
- Bottles and Cans.
We're a blue collar bar with a little sexy edge.
- I'm missing the empty.
- If I use your old name, with a new bar,
they're gonna keep driving by.
- Yeah, I guess it makes some sense.
- What do you think of that entryway?
- [Man] I love it.
- That's a hats off to you Trace.
That's something you would have done, right?
- She wouldn't let me, but I would have done that.
- Little Middle Tennessee ingenuity.
And that was our inspiration for this whole service bar.
I wanted people to know it.
So I got more to show you guys.
I wanna show you the back, let's head down there.
- Oh, look at the stage.
- You wanted to keep it that look that you wanted,
rustic not changing it, making it better.
- Looks like a real stage. - Mystic fan.
- I wish we could think
of somebody who could play here tonight,
who'd knock this town socks off.
You've got any ideas? - Big Smo.
- Look at you. - Unbelievable.
- He called me here.
What do you think of this stage now?
- Makes me feel proud to stand up there and do a show.
- [Jon] What do you think
of that fountain over there, Tracy?
Inside, we took care of the sludge pun,
that's been all repaired.
We redirected that water Tracy, up into that fountain.
Now, I don't have a problem with you having food down here.
So we got our little fountain.
We got our stage set up.
We got a great show tonight. - Yes.
- There's a lot more to see, let's go inside now.
Come on upstairs.
(upbeat music)
- [Man] Wow.
- [Women] Yes. - [Man] Wow.
- [Woman] Awesome. - [Woman] This is is nice.
- [Woman] Look feels so good. - [Man] Oh yeah.
- And she thought my bench is right in there. (chuckles)
- [Woman] Oh, I love the tables, wow.
- [Woman] I love it, it's awesome.
- This is incredible.
- [Woman] Look at that (beep) - [Man] That's cool.
- [Woman] This is so incredible. I love it.
- I don't know, I don't want (indistinct)
I would've done differently.
This isn't new to me, I was wanting more.
I was wanting something not so redneck engineered.
They just made it look junkier that it was, I'm going.
For me, I guess I was just expecting something different.
- I just coming to check on you.
Gina, is good at overreacting.
I like it all, I mean, it's nicer.
It needs redneck to a nice looking deal.
- Come on over.
What do you think Gina?
- Well, I mean it's too redneck engineering for me.
I grew up with having to make the best from what you got
and that's just how it feels for me, I'm sorry.
- It brings back bad memories from your childhood.
- Yeah.
- I built a bar for the marketplace,
and we have 27,000 a year household income.
If I made it too nice, what would happen, Brandie?
- People wouldn't feel welcome when they walked down.
They'd immediately think to themselves.
Damn, how much are the prices jacked up?
- This is a celebration of that lifestyle.
- I think it's awesome.
- It's a place that I'm proud to say that I work.
- They're excited.
The last thing you wanna do,
is pull them down, right? Tell her.
- We love it. - Most definitely.
- When your staff looks at you and said, we believe,
then you fight for this and you give it a chance to work.
- Wow. - Hey man.
- Come in here and kick back now,
- When you brought me here,
you said, I wasn't proud of this.
- This is home sweet home.
- Hello.
- [Big Smo] What do you think?
- Some of the concepts- - Really.
- Took me back the whole era. - Oh, definitely.
- Well, we grew up poor and I had to make things out of-
- Yeah, what we had.
- My sled was a hood of a car.
- Mine too. I had the same sled,
but there's a strong sense of power in showing who we were,
and I think all of your people are gonna just embrace it.
- Thank you.
- You ready? We open in 10 minutes.
- I'm ready, bring it home.
- All right, let's do it.
- I want to try the MT Ingenuity.
- All right, coming up.
- [Man] Congratulations. - [Gina] Thank you.
- [Woman] Gram no bottles.
- That's grand total my friend of 68.80.
- [Man] No. - It's been a long time
since I rung up a $70 order.
- What do you think of the place?
- Oh, I love it.
- The customers really like the decor.
And knowing that everybody in there
that normally would be in there with a BYOB bottle.
We're actually paying $5 a drink for a change.
I'm coming around, I have to say,
everything's going really good.
Tracy has stepped up to the plate so much,
and it's been such a great help.
I think if we stay on track,
we'll do about 30 grand this month, this could be great.
- This bar is the historic landmark,
first gay nightclub ever in Las Vegas, that's great.
But at the end of the day,
I had to come up with a brand that would work.
You guys ready to see it?
- [Men] We are. - All right,
on the count of three turn around.
One, two, three.
- [The Guys] Oh. (chuckling)
- [Man] Nice. - [Man] You see that.
- Oh my gosh, it just feels Gipsy was kinda horrible.
- [Man] This is awesome. - [Man] Pretty eye catching.
- SPLV, South Beach Las Vegas.
Our creative inspiration was 1950 South Beach.
I had to get this sign made in 36 hours, not easy.
So you ready to see the inside?
- [The Guys] Yeah. - All right guys, go ahead.
- [Man] Oh. - [Man] I swear to God
- [Man] It's beautiful.
- [Man] God, they-
- Look at the couch.
- It's horrible.
It's absolutely horrible.
It is what it is, so you know, it's-
(upbeat music)
- Paul wasn't ready for real change
and embracing his future.
Instead, he fell into his old ways and disappeared.
But I have a staff that's excited
and we're gonna launch it anyway.
Welcome to 1950s Miami.
It's too bad Paul, can't be with us,
but let's open this place, let's pack it,
and let's make ourselves proud and cover for him.
- As much as I love Paul, I know he's a difficult person.
He has this whole spiel of he's changing,
he's gonna be a positive person,
but he's always stuck in his ways.
- Larry, Kenneth, what do you think of a place?
- Of course- - [Jon] Do you like it?
- Beautiful absolutely. - Beautiful.
- Can't wait to work that platform.
- All right, let's go to it.
We open in a minute.
- Hey everybody, welcome to SPLV.
Come on in and have a good time.
(crowd cheering)
- Fresh lemon juice.
- [Man] The club looks great. - Thank you so much.
- It's fantastic.
(Crowd cheering)
- Overall, I mean, I feel I did really well.
I think everybody liked it.
- Justin we gotta go change.
(Upbeat music)
- The whole bar was ordering cocktails during the show.
No one left for flying out, they were cranky.
(upbeat music continues)
(clapping)
(Revellers cheering)
- I thought it was great to be featured up on a platform,
as well as hearing those rings
of the cash register are going off.
So I loved it.
- Guys, so unfortunately we had to do it without Paul,
but it was a good night, wasn't it?
- It was a good night, very good.
- Chino, congratulations. - Thank you so much Jon.
- You've worked hard these past five days.
- Thank you Jon. - Congratulations to you too.
Good night.
- I don't know what happened with Paul,
but I know what to do.
So with him or without him, I know I could pull it off.
- Due to Paul's disappearing act tonight,
his staff was able to shine
and really take control of his club.
But only time will tell how this lounge does,
when Paul comes back.
(suspenseful music)
On a count of three.
I'm gonna let you turn around and see your new bar.
One, two, three.
- [Man] Oh. - [Man] Oh, that's just.
- [Man] What the fuck is that?
- [Woman] I'm scared (sic) less.
- First of all, I wanted to make certain
that all the office buildings and the cars that drove by,
knew we were new.
Two, I had to communicate
that we work for the business community.
And three, I had to communicate that we were food friendly.
Hence the word Tavern, is gone.
The whole point of this look,
is to get those business people to walk
through this front door.
- Wow. - [Jon] Little apprehensive?
- At a big change Jon.
It's a really big change for all of us.
- The staff is apprehensive,
but I feel great about this place.
- I don't know about this.
- The problem is will Tracy ever accept anything,
that isn't pirate.
Go ahead guys, go take a look.
(laughing)
- Oh, this much easier to clean
- [Woman] This is making feel better.
(laughing)
- Look what they did to my vault.
- [Woman] That some super Uber corporate.
- Remember Jen, when you had those-
- Yes. - Wet tickets all over,
and they were disintegrating,
you couldn't even read them.
All I did was put a simple check rack
right up here behind the wall.
It's simple, so they're not wet anymore.
And then we have our glass.
Trace, I got you a month supply for free.
From Libby, we got your all new glassware.
Really, really nice stuff.
Okay, I want to go out on the patio for a minute.
(laughing)
- [Woman] Oh my God. - Guys, there's nothing
like this downtown.
Take how cool it is to come here for happy hour.
Every seat in this place is worth $25,000 in annual sales.
This bar was mistargeted.
They had no lunch business
and they're in a downtown location, I had to change that.
The 18 page menu was over.
We put together a menu that you guys can deliver.
It's simple, it's all the items we've been working on.
So this becomes a nice little revenue
producing area for lunch and for nighttime.
- [Narrator] Moments away from the relaunch,
a line of customers anxiously await
their new happy hour hotspot.
And Corporate Bar and Grill, is welcomed into the community,
by Silver Springs Chamber of Commerce.
- Welcome to the business community.
- Thank you so much.
- All right.
(crowd cheering)
- I am honestly very skeptical,
as to whether this is gonna work or not.
- The Hot Tie, it's available.
- Dutch Collins. - Dutch Collins it is.
- [Woman] The drinks are delicious.
- [Woman] Thank you so much.
- Every time I come in here,
it's like a lounge in this place.
You're too good guys, you're too good.
The food look beautiful.
Came out quick and the customers loved it.
Juciano, was running food.
- How's the salad? Is good?
- It's really good.
- It all came together tonight, and the staff worked as one.
And as a result, the customers are still there having fun.
- This is definitely the coolest bar in Silver Spring.
- When the food and the bar,
and the servers all work together, we all make money.
I will adopt that.
I will intermingle that with my inner pirate.
- [Narrator] Although most of the staff
has adapted well to the new bar.
The most important ex-pirate is struggling with the change.
- These changes are not what I had wanted.
How bad do we just wanna vat of grog right now?
And just be serving that, huh?
- But we're really enjoying the new place.
Thanks for having us this night.
- That's really not what I want to hear.
This sucks.
- [Narrator] Tracy's attitude begins
trickling down to Juciano.
- Why are taking your coat off?
- Don't give a (sic) anymore.
Let me clean my ass with that.
- Trace, are you unhappy?
- Yes, I'm very unhappy.
- Look at this place,
look at the food prices you've hit today?
Do you realize the sales for guests that you did tonight?
- I think with time,
it's gonna take us a little while to settle into it.
- Don't tell me what I want to hear,
'cause I want to see you be successful.
So I'm gonna follow up with you to make sure that you are.
- Okay. - Okay.
But know how much I believe in this,
and know that I believe in you.
If Tracy embraces it, she'll make a lot of money.
If she does it, she'll lose everything.
- I'm gonna sleep on it for a couple of days,
whether it becomes a pirate bar again.
Well, I can do anything I want.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, this is Jon Taffer.
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