The first season of the American reality series Bar Rescue premiered on Spike on July 17, 2011 and concluded on September 18, 2011 with a total of 10 episodes.

The series stars renowned nightlife consultant Jon Taffer who offers his professional expertise plus renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in order to save them from closing.

[1] Jon heads to California to help a bar whose general manager has been so hands off, he's caused so many problems that badly affected the owner's reputation.

Jon has his work cut out for him when he confronts an owner whose bad decisions and inability to trust his manager threaten to ruin his bar and finances.

Jon helps a once iconic bar that suffers from the owner being neglectful and blaming his inexperienced staff for the problems.