The season finale of "Bar Rescue" this past Sunday was your typical run of the mill episode. There is a follow up episode coming next week, called "Back to the Bar", that I will review, but this was the finale of this season.

Taffer and crew headed to a bar in Colorado called "The Triple Nickel". This was a family owned bar that had some great times early on. They were making money, the family was happy and all was well. But, things started to get pretty rough over a year ago. The youngest son took over the bar, and at first, he was doing fine, with help from his family. But, his mother got cancer and died. Then, his sister got cancer and she died. Then, his brother got cancer, and he died. That is a whole lot of tragedy to deal with in under a year.

I would have totally understood had he just sold the bar and did something else, but he did not do that. He chose to keep the bar going, change it to a punk rock venue, stop selling food and drink his sorrows away. I do not blame him for drinking, if I lost 3 family members in one year, I'd drink too, and I do not drink alcohol. But, this drinking led to him forgetting about the bar. He just kind of let things go, and made the place his own personal playhouse. He hired friends to work there, they drank constantly, he belittled people in front of patrons and the bar started to go down the drain.

When Taffer and his experts came to check things out, they were not impressed. The outside of the bar looked drab and old. The interior actually had the look and feel of a country/BBQ bar. It was all finished wood and old chairs and barstools. It looked rather weird, because this guy wanted his bar to be a punk bar. When they watched the workers, they were unhappy. These guys kept treating the place their own personal frat house. They played pranks on each other, they demeaned each other and they drank until they got sick. It was embarrassing to watch. When the owner had physically pushed one of his employees to the ground, that is when Taffer jumped into action. He walked straight into the bar and made a beeline for the owner. He verbally attacked this guy the second he walked into the bar. He started yelling at him, calling him a bully and a fraud and a drunk. The owner, who was completely hammered, was totally taken aback and unprepared for the verbal abuse that was coming from Taffer.

After Taffer got through all the insults and yelling, he closed the bar down and told everyone to go home and sober up and come in ready to work the next day. When the staff arrived the next day, they were all pretty apologetic and seemed to want to change. They wanted their friend who had gone through these horrible tragedies to be okay. The owner himself owned up to all his faults. It was refreshing to see these people not yell and fight with Taffer, but rather, take his advice. One of the first things Taffer decided he was going to do was to reopen the kitchen. This made everyone happy. This meant more revenue. They also decided to make drinks a bit easier, and made it so they did not need a ton of liquor in the bar. That was a problem for them. They kept running out of alcohol and liquor during their operating hours. All the stuff that Taffer and the experts decided to do were all very good, and obvious, choices.

During stress test, the fact that I do not remember many problems speaks to the fact that they did okay enough. There were some small problems, but it wasn't anything that was shocking or made the experts close the bar down. This staff, when locked in, seemed like they knew what they were doing. The owner was very, very involved during the stress test as well. He was in the kitchen, worked at the bar and helped wherever help was needed. He looked really good during stress test.

When they finished the stress test, they closed the bar down, and Taffer and his crew got to work fixing up the bar. They made some nice changes on the inside. They gave them new tables, chairs and barstool. They also made the outside more inviting, and they did not change the name, which I always like. When the staff saw the new bar, they loved it. They loved the new look, the new stage, the new stuff, they were very enthused. During the re launch, things went swimmingly. They were pumping the new food out of the kitchen, the bartenders were cruising behind the bar, the owner was doing his thing and everything was working out very well. They looked to be in good shape.

When the Bar Rescue crew came back for the 6 week check up, one of the staff filmed a thing by himself and said that things were going fine. But, he did not seem as excited as the whole crew did during stress test and re launch. It was odd, but they could be doing just fine as far as I know.

This was a pretty decent season, save for a couple of episodes. I will review the episode next week, and that will be it for this season of "Bar Rescue". Thank you all for reading these particular reviews, and I will continue to do this when "Bar Rescue" returns for its next season.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. As long as Jon Taffer is rescuing bars, America will be a ok in Ty's book. Follow Ty on instagram and twitter.

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