Yes , great show! , I've been following it for a while, seems to be at least
40 episodes so far. You can walk into the Sand Dollar/702 bar now ( its
in a crap neighborhood i.e. Spring Mountain and Polaris ) and see if its all
still good. I checked Yelp and some other sites on follow up to Jon Taffers'
other makeovers , and its fair to say that 50% of the places , chuck all his
advice after 3 months, and go back to the original ways. The show is not
really clear on who pays for the bar makeover cost, which in my estimate
runs from $10,000 to $50,000. I suspect that a lot of these folks are only
doing it for the makeover !
best...Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bartop" <bobbartop@yahoo.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:27 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Bar Rescue
> Last night I saw the television show Bar Rescue for the first time.
> Actually, I wasn't looking for it but stumbled upon it while switching
> channels. I stopped there and watched about three episodes, and I enjoyed
> it, even though I don't normally care for "reality shows". Anyway, the
> reason I mention this is because there was a piece in the Las Vegas
> Advisor about this show, and apparently they are going to do an episode on
> a bar in Vegas. I think it was called the Sand Dollar and is now going to
> be the 702 Bar, or something like that. That's why I even stopped on it
> while I was flipping channels. I'm not sure when the Vegas show is going
> to broadcast, but they asked Anthony Curtis for advise as far as video
> poker. You know how most bars have really crappy video poker in Vegas,
> but the Las Vegas Advisor article said that they would have games like 9-7
> Double Bonus and in a couple spots it would be 10-7 Double Bonus and
> advertise it up for the fact that it is 100%. I'm really looking forward
> to watching it when it airs. As I was watching the show last night and
> seeing how stubborn the bar owners were it made me think that that must be
> a situation in Vegas also, because in my opinion having video poker with
> crappy pay schedules AND not even a progressive, is pretty stupid. Very
> near-sighted! Maybe if this show is a hit and it turns the 702 Bar
> around, maybe it could catch on elsewhere in Vegas.
>
>
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