Rowdy customers at a New York sports bar attack Taffer's crew when they discover they are being served cheap booze at premium prices, prompting Jon to teach the importance of serving quality drinks and maintaining crowd control, but first must contend with an owner whose constant drinking and refusal to take any responsibility for his actions drives his staff to the breaking point.

A Staten Island bar that is overrun by a biker gang who are cooking their own food and getting their drinks, due to the owner's inability to stand up to them.

Jon must deflate the ego of a passionate Puerto Rican bar owner whose constant berating, boisterous personality, and focusing more on DJing, is not just turning the staff against him, but his own sons as well.

Jon tries to calm the sparks between three loud-mouthed firefighting brothers struggling to keep their Queens bar afloat, who are more concerned about who gets the last word rather than manage things such as quality control and holding the staff accountable.

Jon proposes a complete rebuild of the bar to remove its tainted reputation, but on the condition that Terry invests his own money.

Jon enforces tough love when a live music bar owner is more concerned with the spirit of wonderment than appealing to her trendy Chicago community.

Note: For the recon, Jon brought in the owners from The Blue Frog 22 (re-branded as The Local), featured in the sixth episode of season 1.

The post-service interview reveals that Richard is not interested in the bar and is financing it through his own glass business, while his nephew Israel is passionate about taking over.

Jon must turn the luck of four Irish sisters whose constant bickering and lack of management has caused their San Francisco bar to take a downturn.

Jon butts heads with a self-proclaimed nightlife expert who is troubled by mounting debt, an inflated ego, a chauvinistic attitude towards women, and poor design choices.

Jon must help retired professional baseball player turned bar owner Dan Serafini be a leader when he allows his staff to be over intoxicated and give away all his profits.

Jon tries to help fix a Portland bar with an owner and his step-daughter who don't work together, and criticize each other and the staff, while also dealing with a very stubborn chef.

Alexander Siddig and Iddo Goldberg help Jon rescue a Moroccan bar with an identity crisis due to conflicting interior and exterior designs.

The problems worsen when he discovers a staff untrained in Moroccan cuisine and proper bartending methods and a chef who does not follow sanitary procedures.

Note: This episode premiered an hour early as the lead-in for the Spike miniseries Tut which featured Siddig and Goldberg who both acted as recon spies while wearing an earpiece that was given to them by Jon so that he can talk to them.

Due to the extensive redesign work needed, the stress test and the training both took place at Friar Tucks (re-branded as Stein Haus Brau & Brats, featured in the sixteenth episode).

A landlord and partner, who would rather paint fruit in the name of art than save his failing Ohio burger bar, clashes with bitter owners.

Former Judas Priest frontman turned bar owner Tim "Ripper" Owens calls on Jon to amp up his struggling live music venue when his employees treat it more like a jam session than a business.

Jon has a big face-off against a distrustful owner of a military themed bar, who is disrespectful towards her staff and spends more time spying and scapegoating them than training them.

Jon confronts a foul-mouthed owner in a failing Michigan bar with a confusing theme, whose vulgarity and rudeness drives away female customers and degrades her staff.

Jon is forced to deal with the hot-headed owner of a college alumni bar whose fiery temper and rude behavior keeps his staff on edge and patrons away.

Jon helps a former psychologist who now runs a Detroit jazz club, but her interfering family undermines her leadership and allows her staff to be lazy and complacent.

Jon helps a failing Detroit strip club with a violate work environment, a staff without standards, and a manager who struggles to run the business.

After a downtown expansion, a successful St. Louis restaurant owner could lose everything as her out-of-control nephew and unqualified manager run her sports bar into the ground, unless Jon can get them in line.

Note: For the recon, Jon brought in defensive end Chris Long of the St. Louis Rams, who had moved back to Los Angeles by the time the episode aired, and Barstool Sports blogger Dan Katz.

After the tragic loss of his mother, the owner of this British pub has coped poorly by drinking away profits and gambling his way to ruin with weekly poker tournaments.

After convincing his friends to invest their life savings, a novice bar owner transformed a community staple into a bottomless money pit and does nothing to fix it.

A manager turned bar owner struggles to keep her business floating due to her drunk and promiscuous staff's out of control behavior and their reputation that keeps patrons out.

An owner relies on her attractive daughters and spaghetti wrestling events to lure customers inside, but mounting debt and a family feud threaten the future.

Jon is forced to make a tough decision on rescuing a bar when its resistant owner refuses to give up his punk rock obsession in favor of more profiting-making choices.