Bar Rescue after the bar makeover.
So they send out a facebook blast to get to the bar at 8:30 for the re-opening, so 6 of us plan to go...then they blast out...not until 10:30, which sucks but everyone is still up for it.
So we head over to the bar at 10 and there is no parking anwhere near the place and the line to sign releases is 10x longer than on monday night. I guess word of mouth has gotten out, combined with the non freezing temps has brought everyone out. Seems like about 20% of the people were there on monday. I'm in line behind the lady that was called a great customer in the stress test and we talk for a bit but she is smoking like a chimney which is starting to give me headache.
We wait in line for about an hour and they eventually open the bar. They changed the name to Wildcatters Saloon, which is pretty lazy but makes sense since it's Texas.
They give us the pep talk about don't look in the camera, don't bug john taffer, and again the menu will be limited in what you can order. Again I am just hoping to get a few beers but can't due to the screwy drink menu they have to follow.
All the drinks are texas themed. One has pecan pie flavored syrup and some chocolate liquor in it, another has a raw jalapeno in some honey flavored booze (everyone said that drink was way too hot and didn't like it) called the Hot Katy. The food menu is all sandwiches, which looked pretty good but no one wants to eat at midnight. The food truck is probably the nicest one I've ever seen and the TV chef is in there making stuff.
So we finally get in but have to sit on the patio due to the bar being full which was fine since the weather was nicer and it's less smoky. There is again no waitress in sight and one of the women in the group wants to go to the bar because she thinks the "mixologist" is hot. So we go inside and the transformation was pretty nice, they've turned the dive into a more upscale place, even thought most of the changes are only cosmetic. There is a fake oil derrick and the color scheme is red and black, all the fancy liquor is back lit etc...and they have a new POS system (sounds like every other episode, right?). they have made no changes to the bathrooms since they won't be on TV anyhow.
Eventually a guy goes into the bar and gets a waitress to come out, no one at our table orders a drink since they all sound pretty bad and it's heading toward 1 A.M., they had said they would open up the entire bar menu later in the night, but never did since they got such a late start.
I double check John Taffer's height by standing right next to him just to make sure I was right about him being shorter than I thought the other night, he comes up to the bridge of my nose and I'm 6'3".
The people sitting at the bar are getting great service but everyone else isn't really getting squat and some people are vocally pissed. I don't really care since I just came to see how the show is made. The lady with the hots for the mixologist finally gets a drink at the bar(the pecan pie one) and it's meh.
The producer sees me and directs his interviewer to talk to me since I was there the night of the stress test. I basically BS about how the great the place is now and how i'll be hanging out there all the time yada yada yada. When I'm done she refers to me as God's gift since I'm aparently not an incoherent moron and made some funny jokes about how bad the bar was before the change. Out of the corner of my eye I can see my friends dying of laughter at my entire line of BS. Nobody else the table volunteers to talk. So I think I have a decent shot to get on the show, however i'm kinda oldish compared to the desired demo so I might not.
They seemed to mostly interview either hot girls or guys who had mohawks/cowboy hats on.
The new season starts March 9th. The crew does know that they are going to another bar here in town but not which one.
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