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Let's take a look at some information, reviews, and updates of Brew U since Bar Rescue came and made all of the changes to the bar (note - all reviews are post Bar Rescue).
Reviews:
- "Not a great location but happy hour pretty much all day and great bar food! Try the grilled cheese or wings!"
- "Come check it out. Great food and awesome prices on beer and alcohol!"
- "My husband never got his food. He had to watch me eat dinner while the kitchen figured out how to fry a chicken sandwich. Meanwhile, there were customers yelling at each other across the dining area and a waitress with a baby. Horrible. John Taffer would be very upset to witness this incompetence."
- "Terrible service, mediocre food....."
Other News and Stories:
- The bar is going by its new name Brew U and keeps an up to date Facebook page. Also, here is the website Bar Rescue set up for them which is just a menu listing food and drinks.
- Brew U is throwing a Bar Rescue viewing party tonight at the bar, which is usually a good sign that they are satisfied with the changes.
- Someone on a Middle Tennessee State forum wrote: "Came by Brew U Saturday the 21st at lunch time...games on. Maybe six cars out front...suspect four were workers...Put a fork in them, they are done. I for one would be fearful of the freshness of any food at that place. That side of town is just not going to support a sit down restaurant."
- Jon Taffer will be live tweeting for this episode on Twitter using the hashtag #TafferTalk. Jon also sent a tweet out that said: "I'm so excited about this week's
#BarRescue that I'll be tweeting in real time to see your reactions! Don't miss it! INSANE!" - The previews of the episode show someone throwing up from bad beer, black mold in the kitchen, and mushrooms growing in a walk-in.
Conclusion:
I find it kind of odd that Bar Rescue chose to makeover two bars in the city of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but the show seems to be making over multiple bars in each city they visit now, probably to reduce production costs. Maybe Brandi and Big Smo from MT Bottle will make an appearance?
It seems like Jon Taffer will be going after the college kids with this Bar Rescue due to the close proximity to Middle Tennessee State University and with the new name of Brew U. The few reviews seem to be mixed, however the recent pictures on the Brew U Facebook page seem like there are pretty good crowds there. We will have to see if this episode is actually "INSANE" or if Jon is just trying to get more people to watch. The success of this bar will most likely depend on the students of Middle Tennessee State.
Update from end of the show: Eight weeks after the relaunch.. Fairways was losing $7,000 each month...Now monthly sales at Brew U have climbed to $5,000. Kevin continues to call Richard. Richard has not returned his calls.
UPDATE 12/2014 - Brew U has closed. More information on the closing.
*To see how all of the bars from Bar Rescue are doing, go to the Bar Rescue Update page, and also Like us on Facebook or Follow Us on Twitter to stay up to date with all things involving Bar Rescue.
You soooooo needed John. What were you thinking! Mushrooms in the walkin? Good God man.
ReplyDeleteDisgusting!! The owner should be jailed for allowing those filthy conditions -- not given a newly renovated bar. Waste of time. Brew U will fail.
ReplyDeleteThe notes said that sales "climbed to $5000 a month". Not very good if that is accurate. I mean, their lease is probably most of that....
ReplyDeleteI agree 1000% I'd never go in there !
ReplyDeleteJust shows the importance of employing a person such as Taffer prior to purchasing or starting any business without knowing the demographics.
ReplyDeleteDid they maybe mean profit of $5000 and not sales? Because if that was sales then maybe it's time to mow lawns or something.
ReplyDeleteChain establishments may be sterile and corporate, but they tend to have better processes in place for cleanliness. It's to the point where I'd be afraid to go to any locally owned establishment unless Taffer has been there first. "Taffer Certified", lol.
ReplyDeleteits better than losing 7K a month. and in that area i doubt the lease is that much.
ReplyDeleteI tried live tweeting Taffer about that. No response of course. 5,000 is extremely low. I lived in a town of 1500 people and worked in a pizza place. The pizza place made 2000, a night. 5000 is pathetic
ReplyDeleteI went in Saturday Nov sixteenth, i got beer in a warm glass, and the service was so bad ten minutes later my wife and I tabbed out and left. Might have been thirteen guests. Nine at the bar. Sure seems like a huge waste of time. I'm not going back. Murfreesboro has a lot of great places to go. Why bother with that mess
ReplyDeleteThough the concept of a bar that features coffee sounded good, the redesign was quite a bit lacking. To me, it just didn't look like there would ever be enough seating to be profitable. And if they are only doing $5000 a month in sales, that is pretty pathetic. They should be doing at least $5000 a week in sales.
ReplyDeleteMade my skin crawl!
ReplyDeleteBefore bar rescue, they have NOT had a health inspection in 3 years god knows how many people got sick. You think those f**kers in the health department would do something!
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering why there is not a federally-regulated small business rescue program being introduced by Wall Street since they got 37 trillion dollars in financial assistance from taxpayers since 2008? Shouldn't that money come with some stipulations at least? Perhaps helping the economy in addition to trading stocks?
ReplyDeleteWhat??? 37 trillion dollars? I think you are a bit confused! Also, why would I be forced to bail out ANY business? If a business can't succeed don't you think it should just go away?
ReplyDeleteI am sorry, you must be saying that Reuters, Bloomberg News, Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson and the Wall Street Journal are all liars?
ReplyDeleteOf course you can provide proof of these "secret" programs right??
ReplyDelete"A fresh narrative of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009
ReplyDeleteemerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than
21,000 transactions. While Fed officials say that almost all of
the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, details
suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret
funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the
biggest banks to grow even bigger" -Bloomberg News Nov. 27th 2011
"$7.77 Trillion; the amount of money the central bank parceled out was
surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he
“wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury
Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief
Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the
Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing
the financial system, more than half the value of everything
produced in the U.S. that year." -Bloomberg News Nov. 27th 2011
Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public
ReplyDeleteDec 23rd 2011
"$16 trillion -- The “total transaction amounts” for Fed lending included in a July 21, 2011, study by the Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan investigative agency that reports to Congress."
“When all individual transactions are summed across all facilities created to deal with the crisis, the Fed committed a total of $29,616.4 billion dollars. This includes direct lending plus asset purchases. Three facilities -- CBLS, PDCF, and TAF -- overshadow all other facilities, and make up 71.1 percent ($22,826.8 billion) of all assistance.” –Randall Wray Huffington Post + Bloomberg News
ReplyDelete29.8 TRILLION DOLLARS BY THAT POINT
GAO Finds Serious Conflicts at the Fed
ReplyDeleteOctober 19, 2011
"The 108-page report found that at least 18 specific current and former Fed board members were affiliated with banks and companies that received emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial
crisis. In the dry and understated language of auditors, the report noted that there are no restrictions in Fed rules on directors communicating concerns about their respective banks to the staff of the Federal Reserve. It also said many directors own stock or work directly for banks that are supervised and regulated by the Federal Reserve. The rules, which the Fed has kept secret, let directors tied to banks participate
in decisions involving how much interest to charge financial institutions and how much credit to provide healthy banks and institutions in
"hazardous" condition. Even when situations arise that run afoul of
Fed's conflict rules and waivers are granted, the GAO said the waivers are kept hidden from the public."
TOTAL AMOUNT GIVEN TO INSIDERS; 4.4 TRILLION DOLLARS
Current balance sheet last reported 0% interest loans;
ReplyDeleteCitigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)
"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) amended the Wall Street Reform law to audit the Fed, pushing the GAO to step in and take a look around. Upon hearing the announcement that the first-ever audit would take place in July, the media was bowled over and nearly every broadcast network and
ReplyDeletenewspaper covered the story. However, the audit’s findings were almost
completely overlooked, even with a number as high as $16 trillion staring all of us in the face." -Forbes
"Socialism" works. . . if you are rich.
ReplyDeleteI think they mean that total sales are up $5,000.00 a month, as in the Black, and not down $7,000.00 a month, as in the RED and losing money.
ReplyDeleteMan, the best part of the episode was the friend/cook. I doubt that a man who couldn't cook a hamburger went to culinary school or won cooking awards
ReplyDeleteIf they were losing $7,000 a month and the sales climbed to $5,000, then that means they are still losing at least $2,000 a month. That's assuming that sales were $0 a month before the rescue.
ReplyDeleteI am assuming the mis-spoke and meant $5000 profit per month. I'm sure they are doing more than an average of $160 per day. that would be about 5 people per day.
ReplyDeleteYeah I don't think they could stage that mushroom growing out of the wall. lol
ReplyDeleteTo $5,000 a month means to me $5,000 above 0.
ReplyDeleteor at least, actually considering the demograpohics in the first place!
ReplyDeleteWow. Spoken like a true liberal. Small businesses are the heart and sole of our country, I really don't think you want them to just "go away".
ReplyDeleteWent tonight, the service was awful. My three friends and I were there
ReplyDeletefor two hours waiting to get our food. All together the trip was three
hours which is extremely too long for any place to go to. They need more
servers and I feel the owner didn't listen to everything from the show
and changed everything after they left.
Did you read the post? It was about the proverbial bailout of Wall Street without similar consideration for "Main Street." The group best known for railing against the financial industry bailout, FYI, is the Tea Party.
ReplyDeleteJust visited on 2/8/14...walked in and sat at the bar for 5 minutes or so. Never got served. Place was nasty. Something was spilled on the bar and looked like it had been there a while and never cleaned up. The other tables were dirty. For a place that had been rescued it was a dump. It won't be long before its shut down for good
ReplyDeleteI think they dropped a 0 by accident.
ReplyDelete$600,000 a year is about right if they are busy. About $1700 generated revenue a day.
ReplyDeleteSo who has been in? I see on their facebook that the golf is back, that's got to change the look of the makeover.
ReplyDeleteThat kevin guy works at the Murfreesboro hooters now and is still a dumass.
ReplyDeletethat had to mean 5k profit per month....i mean it cant mean sales, that would be about 200.00/day total sales......no bar is that slow with food
ReplyDeleteeven after make over my skin crawls crawls seeing intros!!
ReplyDeleteit's tennessee! look at their children services!!
ReplyDeleteSales are sales NOT profits. They have to cover rent, wages, utilities, advertising, etc. $5K a month won't cut it.
ReplyDeleteI have relatives in Murfreesboro. We went to a bar while I was there that I don't remember. I hope it wasn't Fairways. I especially hope we didn't eat there! DISGUSTING! Do they have health inspectors in TN???
ReplyDeleteI hope somebody is inspecting the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteAfter Taffer and crew leave a place, the same idiots remain.
ReplyDeleteGuys want an Update on Brew U? We are live tonight at 8pm est with an update on Brew U..
ReplyDeleteCheck it out as Richard gave us an update on how its been since the show aired..
http://backsportspage.com/index.php/sports/item/real-sports-talk-radio-rescue-edition-2
They had their own home-grown mushrooms in the cooler.... now THAT's cool and innovative and resource responsible :)
ReplyDeleteMost likely it should read: PROFITS climbed to 5000 per month.
ReplyDeleteIf it was total sales at 5000 per month, it would not even pay for rent.
You know something is not right when they have a camera in the bathroom showing a guy throwing up. I don't think you can legally get a way with that. Just confirms that the program is staged.
ReplyDeleteWife and I decided to try this place out a couple of days ago, and was so not impressed; server had no clue about the menu, entire facility was dirty, bathroom looked like it had not been cleaned in a couple months, the food was over cooked and over salted, and the Guinness beer was served warm. Under no circumstances would we ever go back to this place; could have recieved better food and service across the street at McDonald's!
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight. You ridicule the other guy because you assume he's a "true liberal", which leads me to conclude you're a conservative. Not just any conservative, but one that apparently believes the government should be using tax dollars to prop up small businesses.
ReplyDeleteOh and FYI - I own a small business myself. A successful and highly profitable one. I can't stand when people like you think small businesses are the end all and be all. Just remember, all the disgusting establishments Taffer visits on his shows are small businesses, and I would be outraged if a penny of my taxes went to any of those dumps for any purpose short of burning them down.
I may be a bit late to this party but Reuters, Bloomberg News, Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson and the Wall Street Journal are all ultra-leftist communist-agenda serving entities, and Sanders is a raging marxist. Anything ANY of those entities say is going to be 100% bullsh*t. I bet a million bucks that you're an Occutard too.
ReplyDeleteJust drove past Brew U. The place is closed, and the last event posted is for 10/24
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Fairways Golf and Grill is gone, it had black mold in the back and mushrooms growing in one of the walk ins.
ReplyDeleteI Wish I could go to Brew U!!
ReplyDeleteSo you're insinuating what, that ultra-conservative media outlets like Fox are more credible? Have you seen their news casting, ever, through a subjective lens? It's an absolute joke.
ReplyDeleteJust saw that scene for the first time... my god, that is willfullly ignoring something. The owner seemed depressed and bullied by his idiot cook.
ReplyDeleteEh, we have enough people in jail.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason other states have higher regulations. Its not anti business, its good for all of us.
ReplyDeleteUh, bullshit. Liberals are super pissed off about it.
ReplyDeleteAs a bartender who has worked nationwide from LA to ATL and NY, beer is supposed to be served in a room temperature beer glass to prevent altering the taste and dilution.
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify, I didn't say room temperature glass I said warm, like out of the dishwasher warm. You don't have to be an all-american bartender
ReplyDeleteto know that's wrong.