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Two.
Three.
That's (bleep) awesome, dude.
Oh (bleep)
So beautiful.
What do you think?
It looks very different then before.
Oh my god. It's beautiful. It's really amazing.
It's f(bleep)** bada**.
A whole new look out here. Wood railings. Seating in front.
Suddenly it's the kind of place
where you don't expect to bring kids for a birthday party.
It's an adult bar.
It's a well needed fresh start right there.
Real happy.
Who wants to see the inside?
All right. Go ahead.
Oh my god.
Holy (bleep).
Look at the stove.
Holy (bleep).
I got a sexy bar.
I know.
This is exciting.
This is really, really like blows my mind.
This is a different place.
This is the concept that we should have started
from the beginning.
Look at the wall. We not only changed the color,
we changed the texture of the walls.
It creates warmth, intimacy.
The Prohibition artwork on the walls.
Those are arrested bootleggers that are around the room
and of course the still.
Now the still has two features in it in addition to the smoke
of the still we have clear liquid running through it.
Moonshine is clear.
All of this was built in 36 hours
by Glose Guy Services, a local company.
Great job.
Now I want you guys to look good so no more crazy costumes.
Oh. Yes.
Here you go guy. Put that hat on.
There you go man. That is moonshine.
This was about far more than a bar to me.
This was always about a family.
You guys fought so hard for this.
That means more than any bar in the world
Yes it does.
And out of respect for your family,
there is one more thing that has to be hung in this bar.
A photograph of the family that made this all happen.
Go hang it any place you want, we open in about an hour.
Let's go to work. Congratulations.
You guys ready to see your new bar?
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Two.
Three!
Look how lit up it is inside.
Yeah that's bad ass.
Bars on Bourbon Street
suffer from the sameness and to make this bar successful,
I had to make it stand alone in a crowd of 55 other bars
in the immediate neighborhood.
I think it's great. Everything catches you eye.
I can't wait to open it up
and let these people have a good time now.
This bar is all about a guy by the name of Edward Du Bois.
Edward Du Bois actually lived in this building,
and he was a barber and a philanthropist
and a womanizer and the legend
has it that he was murdered by a bunch of his mistresses
that in fact that his ghost is in that building.
All right, go inside. Take a look.
Oh my lordy. It's big back here.
Not run into each other.
This place is wow.
Me too.
This is better than I could even imagine.
What do you think guys?
It looks great.
Edward Du Bois was a barber so this fits out concept.
Somebody sits down. Pour a shot and you watch
how they line up to these shots walking down the street.
I bet you can sell a couple hundred shot a night from here.
You agree?
I'm ready for it.
The shot chair is unbelievably cool.
Twirl me.
You walk by there, you see it.
It makes you just want to get in it.
This is a key point, I called my buddies at Fry Fabrication
and they did a complete workstation course.
Now rather than facing this way when people walk by,
you face this way.
It's a much cleaner bar back there.
It's a lot more efficient.
We will be able to pump drinks out as quickly as possible.
That's what it's all about on Bourbon Street.
You gave me a challenge to create the best cup, right?
Right.
Guys. Say hello.
The Resurrection cocktail. Pow.
Think of this baby walking down Bourbon Street.
I love it.
You see that and you see blue, suddenly we're branded guys.
Brand is that the best cup on the street?
Yeah it's the best cup. You see it coming.
Spinach is that the best cup on the street buddy?
Yeah it's the best.
That cup has something that no one else has.
I'm happy with it, it's gonna make people go to the new bar.
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Two.
Three.
Holy. Cow.
Oh my god.
Wow. Oh my god. Unbelievable.
Wow. Sick.
Holy Cow. Are you a serious?
You guys ready
Holy crap.
Do a grass angel.
It takes a lot to make me speechless.
I'm almost there.
This past summer our best week was a hundred thousand dollars.
We thought we knew what we were doing
and we thought we had a good handle on it
but this is a better bar and it's our and it's beautiful.
When I got here, they saw the homes that were gone
but there was an American in front that wasn't destroyed.
This is an incredibly resilient community
and I want to create something special for this bar
and here's what we created.
Rules are never broken down here.
This makes you feel like home right here.
It's like a front porch.
I just want to open like I just really want
to get people in the door. Let people see it now.
You have no idea how much this means to all of us.
I feel so blessed. I do.
Let's take a look inside.
What do you think of those frozen drink machine?
Frosty factory gave me that cocktail machine.
Next I got big ass fans to give us all the fans for in here.
Let's go see the kitchen.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my god.
This is awesome.
Look at this. Unbelievable.
This is a Hoshizaki ice machine.
Nobody makes the cubes like this.
Because it's thin, it has a lot of surface area,
so it chills the drink faster.
Let me show you what we did back here.
We had to get everything out of here
then we had to put in all new equipment.
Look at it now.
Holy cow.
It's so good.
Very business.
I love Tampa. I love Bar Rescue. Thank you.
Big Mike's has been serving people in this town since 1989.
I couldn't imagine running a place
that wasn't called Big Mikes.
I hope that they still have our sign.
Couldn't change that sign, could I?
Does that sign pop or what?
Absolutely.
You can't wait to go in can you?
It's killing me.
Go.
Oh my god.
For the main dining area, I put in a brand new floor,
13 tabletops, and 6 TVs.
Oh my god. No way.
We have two solid workstations, to future POS systems.
Brand new beer taps.
We had USB ports installed from Bar Juice.
Four tabletops along the wall and eight brand new TV's.
Look at this.
Brand new Cisco kitchen equipment.
A brand new double batch pizza oven and Turbo Chef technologies
and then I got Manitowoc ice machines to give you
that first ever of their new machine
that makes that custom, high-end ice now.
Wow.
To see it like this is just phenomenal.
You happy?
Oh my gosh. I am speechless.
That bar brought me to tears. It feels like a brand new home.
Being the biggest rescue ever,
this remodel came down to the wire.
I had to get the entire playground done.
Finished painting. Rake the baseball field
and put the final touches on the bar in a matter of hours.
Now it's time to see the people's
reaction to the remodel heart of their community.
What a week this has been. This is a community center.
Kids play here. The community meets here.
It's an important part of Luisa.
We wanted to make certain that Luisa had pride again
and a place where people could come
and put these hurricanes behind us.
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Wow.
This is great.
This is like wow.
New fence. Fixed the playground for the kids and their families.
We created a whole new inside with seating.
We also fixed the basketball court.
Everything you need for families to come back
and be in a center of the community again.
There's one more thing I want to show you guys.
Let's go over this way.
Baseball is very important here. See kids play here.
It's very important so not only did
we want to fix the field, we fixed all the lights
so that we can play night baseball again.
Whoa. *speaks Spanish.
That is hot.
You got your bar back.
Oh my goodness. *speaks Spanish.
I see a carajo and I almost passed out.
We never knew that we were going to come out of this
and now look at it.
Okay. You all can come in.