Bar Rescue (season 2)

Tracy lives out the ultimate Peter Pan dream by running a pirate-themed bar. Jon sends in his wife, Nicole, to do recon, but she is met with a rather mild atmosphere and is served unusually politely. Nicole pulls out of the recon believing that the staff know who she is. Jon sends in his backup recon team dressed as pirates. They enter to find the bar deserted. After some time, they are served frozen half-cooked food and a horrendous "Grog" beverage. Jon confronts Tracy, who is unashamed of her establishment despite being $900,000 in debt and living in her parents' basement with her husband and 17-year-old daughter. The staff are also problematic, with the chef and husband Juciano having no training and the bar staff unwilling to change from their pirate ways. Juciano swore he could cook. Taffer blasted him off into the next millennium and said "Your food is something awful Bro!" Recognizing that the bar has a practically non-existent market in Silver Spring, Jon remodels the bar into a corporate-themed bar and grill to capitalize on the nearby business district and lunch traffic. During the seemingly successful re-opening, Tracy and the staff began dressing and acting like pirates,scaring their customers out of the bar;she reverts to the pirate name and theme only a few days after the re-launch of the new bar. As of that bar rescue, Tracy and Juiciano are still acting like pirates.^[3]

Note: For the recon in this episode, Jon brought in the owners of The Chicken Bone, featured in the seventh episode of Season 1. This is the first bar to change back to its old name and theme. During the Back to the Bar episode, the bar is shown to be failing badly and requests a re-rescue. However, Jon is not sure he is willing to do it due to the disrespect the owners showed him but will consider it for the sake of their daughter.

Frank owns one of several bars still allowed to operate directly on the attractive Florida beach. However, he has allowed his bar to fall into serious disrepair, the food and service are well below standard. Furthermore, he has become very lax with his staff, playing favorites and overlooking poor performance and punctuality, including allowing his bartenders to arrive four hours late or even not turning up at all. Taffer convinces Frank to fire his lazy staff, helps develop a tropical theme to the bar menu, and remodels the bar to repair years worth of neglect.

Jon goes to Baltimore to help two frat brother owners who don't know how to properly run a bar, including one whose arrogant and abrasive attitude has cost them key staff members.

Note: This is the second bar to not have either a stress test or a soft opening; the bar was structurally unsound.

Jon helps two club promoters who took over a once popular bar whose reputation is badly tarnished by not just a murder that took place a few years back, but also poor management, declining conditions, and a promoter who brings the wrong people.

When the owner's drinking and behavior toward women threatens to shut down a long-running dive bar, Jon must get his daughter to step up and take over.

Jon has a long list to complete at Cheviot when he helps a bar owner who is too busy with his jobs to keep his Irish-German pub in check and has over $800,000 in loans that his family doesn't know about.

Jon's attempts to refurbish a former strip-club-turned-bar in California are complicated by an untrained staff, a head bartender who steals from the till, and a kitchen serving dangerously undercooked food.

Note: This episode was dedicated to Yvette Taffer (1924-2012), Jon Taffer's mother.

A former Navy man who can't run his bar properly and lets his partner/musician run wild has Jon doing a serious tactic in an attempt to save the owner's bar.

Jon has some major hurdles to get over to rebuild a once popular bar, which fell from grace due to a recent change in laws, but has fierce resistance with regular customers who scare away women.

The owner's early success with the sports bar goes to his head and causes him to get drunk and disillusioned. The bartenders are required to work in tasteless bikinis, which fail to attract a crowd, and the staff are strongly divided between the senior and new bartenders fighting over tips. The bar also has significant hygiene problems. Taffer addresses the concerns the staff have over the owner's lack of interest, rebrands the bar as "Second Base" as a reference to its past, and provides baseball-inspired uniforms for the bar girls to replace their bikinis.

Note: For the recon in this episode, Jon brought in the owner and general manager of Angel's Sports Bar (re-branded as Racks Billiards & Bourbon), featured in the series premiere. Extremes also appeared in season 4 and was originally going to be the first re-rescue but instead became Jon's second ever walkout when owner Terry refused to reinvest in his bar which caused the failure after the first rescue.