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On the Rocks

On the Rocks

John Green has more than 20 years of experience as a bartender and is the founder of a consulting company that specializes in performance mixology. In this series, he travels to failing bars across America to try to determine and fix what is going wrong with the establishments in an attempt to get people sitting on the bar stools once again. Green knows the bar business well and uses the knowledge to help get struggling businesses back on track. From dives to English pubs, Green does everything from updating the appearance of venues to retraining staff and advising management to help the businesses reinvent themselves and go from being in the red to being in the black.
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Season 18 of 9 Episodes

  • Oxford Inn in Royal Oak, Mich.; restaurant owners try to attract more clients by adding on a bar.

  • John Green visits Ali Baba's Cave in San Diego; he lends his expertise to reinvigorate the failing hookah bar with a tired theme.

  • A dive bar owner, Jen, struggles to balance running the bar and raising her children since losing her husband one year ago; John Green must turn the aging San Diego landmark, London's West End, into the ultimate nighttime destination.

  • A lounge near a college campus cannot attract students as patrons; John Green visits 12 Whiskey in Fort Worth, Texas.

  • Boxcar in Cedar Hill, Texas; squabbling siblings run a bar into the ground; John takes the reins to make this bar a success again.

  • Ringside in Huntington Beach, Calif.; a fight-themed bar owner is unable to pay his bills.

  • John Green revamps one of Hawthorne, California's oldest bars in just four days.

  • John Green visits an Irish pub in Santa Clarita, Calif. and has only four days to turn this bar around.
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John Green has more than 20 years of experience as a bartender and is the founder of a consulting company that specializes in performance mixology. In this series, he travels to failing bars across America to try to determine and fix what is going wrong with the establishments in an attempt to get people sitting on the bar stools once again. Green knows the bar business well and uses the knowledge to help get struggling businesses back on track. From dives to English pubs, Green does everything from updating the appearance of venues to retraining staff and advising management to help the businesses reinvent themselves and go from being in the red to being in the black.

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