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Their establishment was featured on the March 23rd episode of Bar Rescue. O Face Bar was unavailable for comment for this article but are located at 2400 9th Ave in Council Bluffs. He also emphasis that many first time customers don’t know what to expect when visiting a hookah bar but that his staff is very knowledgeable and willing to give advice. “It really starts from the top down, we’re more focused on providing a good experience.” He wants his customers to come away impressed by the staff, management and the environment that has been created. Jesse says that people should come and experience his club because the staff is now more concerned with their performance. While doing this they created a more modern, Moroccan theme. Loosing their “core demographic” hurt them so they eventually reinstated the hookah bar. The first week after the Bar Rescue team left the club was “dead.” This was due mostly to the hookahs being removed and minors no longer being allowed into that section of the club. Jesse points out that being a part of Bar Rescue has greatly benefited the establishment but he does admit that it wasn’t easy. “We realized that if you don’t give respect the customer wont either.” The staff, Jesse included, also learned how important presentation and professionalism is. The Bar Rescue team installed a new computer and entertainment system, repainted and installed new furniture. Jesse equates filming to a “bar boot camp” and admits that there was a lot yelling but that Taffer and his team pointed out many appearance issues with the club that needed to be addressed.

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“We were really just operating on trial and error.” The filming experience and knowledge that Taffer and his team gave them taught Jesse and his employees “management on everybody’s part.” He says that the show was able to “get us on the edge that we needed to be on.” “We were a ragtag bunch,” Jesse says when referring to himself, his management team and employees. Much like Sorties Bar Jesse admits that he didn’t have much experience with running a bar, since their establishment was primarily a hookah bar.

Owner Jesse Hill also spent several months in contact with producers before they filmed in mid November. Oasis Hookah bar and TaZa Nightclub, the second bar featured on Bar Rescue, contacted producers and didn’t hear from them for nearly a year. “We’re seeing a lot more repeat customers, which is always a good thing.” As for the state of their bar now, it’s going very well.

“It’s not a nightclub environment,” Jerry says, adding that you wont go broke buying a beer. We just needed a boost.” Jerry says that the bar, which is located near Offutt Air Force Base and has a military theme, is now more focused then ever on providing the best service to their customers who they say are “great people,” many of them are military veterans and are nice people who just want to listen to music, drink and relax. We did not have a lot of bar running experience and we were in a rut after 8 years. “They really showed us what we were doing wrong. Jerry says that they ultimately “reworked the system.” They also focused on creating new cocktail recipes, training for their bar staff and waitresses as well as helping them implement a system for accepting credit cards, which the bar had never used before. That fresh look included their new name, and a new store front. “We were ready or a new and fresh look,” Jerry says. They eventually filmed in November of 2013. Producers visited the bar 4 or 5 times interviewing owners and Jerry and David Dalrymple, as well as employees. Sorties Tavern, formerly O’Banions, was contacted by show producers last year when they were looking for local bars that were willing to be featured on the show.

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Taffer frequently offers his professional expertise and is known to be quiet confrontational while he attempts to get his point across to an owner or employee. Sorties Tavern which is located in Bellevue, Oasis Hookah Bar and TaZa nightclub, located downtown and O Face Bar, which is located in Council Bluffs, are all the focus of episodes.īar Rescue which premiered in July of 2011 features Jon Taffer, a food and beverage industry consultant entering nightclubs and bars with a team of professionals and helping them to reorganize, remodel, and fix any other internal issues the business is suffering from.

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Three local bars will be featured on the hit Spike TV network show, Bar Rescue.

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