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Bar Rescue...Anyone ever experience a bar that went through this?
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:45 am
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:45 am
Just curious on the fake scale where would it rank? Seems REAL scripted everytime
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:46 am to Lake08
That’s still one? 
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:47 am to Lake08
They did tjs in nola?
I think? One of those bars.
And did a bourbon street bar.
They did.
I think? One of those bars.
And did a bourbon street bar.
They did.
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TJ Quills: Season 3, Episode 3 (February 2013)
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:47 am to Lake08
Where are you watching it? I used to like that show!
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:50 am to Lake08
Big Mike's in Denham went through one.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:53 am to dgnx6
the one on Bourbon St was called Spirits on Bourbon. They had a skull mug to go along with the drink. Went there a bit after the show. It was good.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:57 am to Lake08
The shows implementation does not seem sustainable to me. I’ve heard of a couple in Houston that eventually closed shortly after or just went back to trash.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:57 am to SallysHuman
Paramount
Posted on 6/5/25 at 9:59 am to Lake08
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Paramount
Thank you! Unfortunately that's one I don't have right now.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:00 am to dgnx6
Tj’s went with the new bar theme for like 6 months then went straight back to being Tj’s
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:01 am to dgnx6
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They did tjs in nola?
Yeah and the tales that came out of that were pretty funny. 100% staged, they had a former bartender that was by all accounts a great guy come in and act like a jerk that they needed to fire, pure acting job.
They changed it to The Raven, which lasted like 2 months before changing back to TJs
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:01 am to Lake08
We've been to Big Mike's (although theirs was due to the 2016 flood, not mismanagement) and Jack's Fire Department Bar back in 2016 or 2017. The bar is FAR smaller than the episode showed but the service, food and drinks were all good.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:04 am to Lake08
I knew the people that owned the bar in Kenner (Speakeasy) that they did. There was a script involved. They had the wife twerking on "random patrons", manufactured a lot of drama within the staff, made them do something different with the food in the kitchen so they could chastise them for it... They also knew when they were coming to do the surprise inspection so the wife could look like the party girl always cutting up at the bar, and the husband could look like a lazy drunk.
The stress test was also intentionally set-up to fail.
Even after they did everything, they still had to sell the bar because the issue was the location. They went through all of the trouble to turn it into a "New Orleans themed" bar in what the network referred to as an above average income area; but did not take into consideration that the neighborhood was surrounded by lower priced apartments, and their customer base was significantly changing to a more Hispanic crowd.
The stress test was also intentionally set-up to fail.
Even after they did everything, they still had to sell the bar because the issue was the location. They went through all of the trouble to turn it into a "New Orleans themed" bar in what the network referred to as an above average income area; but did not take into consideration that the neighborhood was surrounded by lower priced apartments, and their customer base was significantly changing to a more Hispanic crowd.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:06 am to dgnx6
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TJ Quills: Season 3, Episode 3 (February 2013)
Pretty sure they changed it back to how it was before like immediately.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:07 am to Lake08
yes, it happened to a bar here.
Its fake, like most reality shows.
Its fake, like most reality shows.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:09 am to Weekend Warrior79
Living in Waco, you become extremely jaded with any reality type show based on my personal knowledge of Fixer Upper. Bar Rescue looks like a carbon copy.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:09 am to Bard
how Taf never ended up at the velvet melvin in Houston blows my mind
T-bones is next on my list of Houston bars most likely to have bar rescue show up and ruin
T-bones is next on my list of Houston bars most likely to have bar rescue show up and ruin
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:12 am to Lake08
Yep, Desi Romano's in da parish
And
Big Mike's in Denham.
And
Big Mike's in Denham.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:13 am to Lake08
i suspect it started out fairly realistic, but quickly devolved into mostly scripted nonsense. there's just no way that every single bar he "rescues" follows almost the same exact narrative and formula.
i still kinda like the show even though i know it's all fake.
i still kinda like the show even though i know it's all fake.
Posted on 6/5/25 at 10:13 am to Lake08
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based on my personal knowledge of Fixer Upper
tell me more...
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