Stand Up Scottsdale, which was on Season 3 of Bar Rescue, recently had a news story done about them and their experience on Bar Rescue. During the show, Jon Taffer decided to make the Green Room of the bar bigger and tried to set the owner up with the Laugh Factory franchise. After Bar Rescue left, owner Howard Hughes decided to keep the name of the bar/club as Stand Up Scottsdale.In the recent news story, Howard reflects on his experience with Bar Rescue and the changes needed after the show left. The story also reflects another case of Bar Rescue not checking the local code before doing updates.
Here are the highlights of the news story:
- The exterior paint Bar Rescue chose and the outdoor sign they put up were not in compliance with Scottsdale policy. However Bar Rescue came back this month to repaint the club and remove paint on windows according to their Facebook Page (Link). They have also replaced the sign.
- The bigger green room took away 60 seats in the club, meaning room for 60 less paying customers. Howard added those 60 seats back spending $3,000 of his own money.
- Howard said he didn't like how he was portrayed and things from one day were dubbed into other days on the show to make it more interesting.
- Despite the hiccups from the show, the publicity from the show has helped the business.
Bar owners should know that there will be manufactured drama to make the show more interesting, but should be willing to deal with it for the makeover and publicity. It seems like Howard is fine with this, and Stand Up Scottsdale seems to be one of the best reviewed bars that has been on Bar Rescue. I think it is interesting that Bar Rescue actually came back to fix their mistakes and keeps in contact with the bar owners.
UPDATE - Here is another post with the Back to the Bar Update.
UPDATE - Stand Up Scottsdale closed in April 2017 - More information on the closure.
