Hello everyone hope you're having the most amazing day today welcome to the Film Insight
channel for today's video we're going to discuss some Jon Taffer facts that are absolutely insane
so sit back relax and without further ado let's get right into the content guys angry experts
most who watch Jon Taffer on bar rescue are under the impression that he knows what he's talking
about while this is not entirely false a lot of experts who watch the show have tons of criticisms
about Taffer's insights for one many claim that he's perpetuating myths and misinformation that
his viewers blindly taken as fact one of the biggest examples of this was when the famous
rescuer claimed that tequila is inherently made from mezcal which mescaline the hallucinogenic
drug is made from even though it would be amazing to go on a psychedelic journey after
drinking a margarita this is unfortunately not the case it seems like taffer made the wrongful
connection between mezcal and mescaline since they do sound the same but they're completely unrelated
mezcal is made from agave which is a member of the lilly family whereas mescaline comes from a cactus
yes this is quite a funny mistake but a lot of people consider tafra
to be the face of bar professionals everywhere so it's not a welcome error
in response to this mistake and many others a facebook page emerged called bartenders against
john taffer where many called him out for his quote unquote idiocy the page was quickly taken
down since most of the people who were voicing their opinions were mean-spirited and juvenile
sure it's really unnecessary to bully someone for the mistakes they make but taffer seems to
make them quite often like when he oddly claimed that the most underrated drink was in old fashion
that's like saying the most slept on rock band is led zeppelin aside from the fact that he said a
lot of questionable things staffers certainly brought some failing bars back on their feet
cringy promotions those who are avid watchers of bar rescue will know that Jon Taffer gets angry
for a wide array of reasons one of them being that he doesn't tolerate when owners create an
uncomfortable atmosphere for women the moment tafro notices that a bartender is hitting on
female customers or an owner is mistreating the women in his business he's quick to call them
out while it's fantastic that he's sticking up for them Taffer has done some questionable things in
the past of course we want to preface this with the idea that people can change but it's hard to
ignore the weird marketing tactics that he's used for his own bar back in 1982 Taffer put together
a contest called thanks for the memories which was odd to say the very least it was a 10-week
long event that allowed girls to compete for the chance to win a free breast augmentation
it's unclear what they really had to do but they were required to give the business before
and after bras that were eventually bronzed and hung over the men's urinals oh god he justified
doing this by saying that it was a very different political time i mean i did [ __ ] tossing so this
was a very different time i would never suggest doing anything like that today what do you guys
think of his reasoning is it a good justification or just an excuse to brush off his past actions
interesting heroes before tavr even dreams of saving the bars featured on his show he
routinely berates the owners until they're either crying or in a fit of rage but in the end they
more than often look up to him and see him as a hero for leading them down the right path
though who does someone as tough and hard working as taffer look up to it's surely some big shot bar
expert right well not even close the people who taffer sees as his biggest mentors are the ones
you would least expect for one he named thomas jefferson yes the third president of the united
states as one of his inspirations he claimed that he liked his visions his convictions his ambition
his politics and his finesse which is pretty understandable next for yet another unexpected
influence he listed howard hughes since he was a man who stepped outside of his box
all the time and pioneered the best inventions lastly he mentioned that walt disney inspired
him the most throughout his career since he was the pioneer of reaction management supposedly
disney lived in an apartment above disneyland where he would watch the facial expressions of
people entering and exiting the park and use the info he gathered to greatly improve his business
this is a trick that taffer used to bring his empire to the level that it's at now it's safe
to say that the bar rescue host has some of the most interesting heroes that we've ever heard lost
money as discussed in an interview with business insider back in 2015 Jon Taffer highlighted that
his career hasn't all been smooth sailing one of the biggest reasons why Taffer wanted to do bar
rescue was because he knew exactly what the owners were facing shockingly the famous rescuer's first
experience as a bar owner was a complete and utter failure not much is known about how this
came to be but what's certain is that taffer lost over 600 thousand dollars on a past deal
it's crazy that he would lose such an enormous amount of cash but it's supposedly because he
did business with the wrong person according to Taffer his friends warned him in advance
about the person he was doing business with but he proceeded anyway and learned the hard way
he said that i did a deal i got ripped off for six hundred thousand dollars every dime i had and i've
been very conscious about ever having a partner since sure it's an unfortunate mistake but it was
an important lesson that turned him into the man that he is today without it he probably wouldn't
understand what it's like to be hopelessly in debt and have no money left to your name like many of
the owners on a show no chill as we mentioned earlier there are a lot of things that jon
taffer won't put up with but this is especially true when it comes to thieves whether they're
grabbing money directly out of the registers over pouring or offering free drinks tapper despises
all of them it's an attitude that he's had for decades dating all the way back to his earliest
days working in the nightclub scene beginning his career at barney's scenery at the age of 24
taffer was completely stunned on his first day he explained that the lead bartender pulled him
aside and told him john we steal here each of us takes a hundred dollars a night so if you don't
take your money the cash registers will be out of whack and the boss will know something's up
rather than cheat the business taffer decided he would do the right thing and tell the owner about
his staff he has absolutely no chill for that as a result the entire staff was fired and tapper
was promoted straight to head bartender on his first date how insane ever since that night the
bar rescue host ensured that he built an empire out of good business practices in an industry that
scarcely has any while many might think that he's a dirty snitch for telling the owner about his
thieving employees we think he's a gangster for it rescue fails it's no secret that a lot of the
bars that jon taffer attempts to save either fail miserably or end up closing down in the long run
in fact with a pretty high failure rate of close to 40 percent we don't doubt that taffer has lost
thousands however the biggest thing that many people seem to wonder is how he must feel after
the bars he tries to help end up shutting down according to taffer it's all business projects and
deals are not family or children businesses come and go treat businesses not emotionally back when
the success rate was a lot higher in 2014 taffer boasted about his work in an interview with bro
bible he pointed out that 80 of his rescues were successful which helped him look past the failures
with a low 20 fail rate at the time the var rescue host explained that while he's disappointed with
the outcome he understands why the business has failed to highlight how little he cares about
his failures he said that if i hit a home run 80 percent of the time and you want to talk about the
20 times i missed swinging the bat i'm okay with that but i hit 80 percent of the time so i have no
embarrassment talking about the 20 even though his fail rate is currently double what it used
to be tapper is still happy with his work since he leaves the bars he rescues in a better place
nfl sunday ticket regardless of where you're from there's always something special about watching
your home team play thanks to things like nfl sunday ticket it's irrelevant where you end
up since you can watch your favorite team play at most sports bars even if you're across the country
at some point this wasn't really an option but thanks to jon taffer's help sunday ticket was born
having a chat with fox sports about his thriving career in the bar industry they briefly touched
on how taffer was one of the brains behind this fantastic invention back in the mid-90s taffy
received an important call from comsat who had some very interesting requests
in essence they wanted him to come up with a plan for getting out of market sports programming into
the bars and restaurants he was already known for helping finally after years of working on a
plan taffer and his team came up with nfl sunday ticket which has been a massive hit ever since
originally it was only meant to be used by commercial establishments but it was so
incredibly successful that individuals were granted access to licenses too well that'll
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