![]() The last hosts standing recently faced off when Jon and Robert came together for the Discovery Plus series Restaurant Rivals: Irvine vs. ‘You helped my marriage, Jon.’ ‘Thank you on behalf of my children.’ ‘Jon, you’re the dad I never had.’ ‘Jon, thank you for being so tough on me.’ When I get hugged like that, next week I’m even tougher.” “When they hug me, Brittany, the things they say to me bring tears to my eyes. “But the most gratifying moment for me always is at the end of the Bar Rescue, when the owner himself or herself gives me that hug,” he continued. To be the last pallbearer for my segment of television is amazingly gratifying.” Every week, I get to go into somebody else’s life and help them, help their business, set up college funds sometimes…It’s an amazing blessing to be able to continue to do this. “I’ve been at it almost 12 years it’s a blessing. “I’m incredibly proud of it,” Jon told me when asked about outlasting almost everyone else in his field. Bar Rescue is one of the last two shows doing what it does-the other being Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible, hosted by Jon’s longtime friend Robert Irvine. Marcus Lemonis’ The Profit ended suddenly last fall. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back, the follow-up to Kitchen Nightmares, aired its last episode in 2020 and has yet to resurface. Anthony Melchiorri’s Hotel Impossible disappeared from Travel Channel in 2017. What used to be an entire genre of business-reality TV has steadily faded away. He’s also one of the last people still saving businesses on television. With Paramount Network’s Bar Rescue returning for the second half of Season 8, hospitality expert Jon Taffer is back on the road, helping bars recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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