

He makes the kitchen fall behind, delivers food to the wrong tables, and needs someone to hold his hand the entire time. The kitchen is keeping up and sending out tasty meals. Gary earns the bar a ball in the rack immediately. Once the rack is complete, the test is done. A pool ball will be placed in a rack for every mistake made.
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The kitchen employees are taught how to make burger sliders by Jason. Phil shows the bartenders how to make a green bloody mary. The staff confides in Phil that Gary is a lousy manager, and they often run out of items.

The next day Jon returns and sees the staff has stayed all night to clean the bar, for which he thanks them.Įven though the bar is clean, the team still makes inconsistent drinks. Gary is unaware of the bar’s costs but does tell Jon he has been there every day for seven years. Mark complains about Gary, who comes over to the conversation. The drinks the spies ordered are too sweet and taste like the mixer.Īs the pizza is served, Jon Taffer walks in. The well at the bar is not correctly set up, so the bartenders have to walk to the other end of the bar to make the drinks. Jon Taffer tells Phil Wills all about the business and the owner.Ĭhef Jason Santos and Phil go into Griff’s Bar and Billiards as Jon’s spies. Gary runs Griff’s Bar and Billiards by himself, and Mark is not happy with how he did.Įxpert mixologist Phil Wills joins Jon Taffer to help save Griff’s Bar & Billiards. Mark had a double lung transplant and then caught Covid-19, which almost killed him.īecause of the health issue, he can no longer be present at the bar like he used to. To make matters worse, Mark had a health scare while the bar was closed during the pandemic. In total, it was closed for 59 days, among other restrictions. The bar had to close three separate times. However, as with many small businesses in America, business slowed down during the pandemic.Īnd even for the locals, people didn’t want to hang out in a pool bar. The year on year growth was between 40-70%, which is pretty incredible success. The bar was successful when it first opened and experienced incredible growth. Gary is in charge of the food and beverages while Mike works in the pool room. To fix that, he hired Gary Lutman as general manager, who did have experience. However, Mark didn’t have a lot of experience with the bar and restaurant part.

The bar has 26 pool tables and just generally looks like paradise for a billiards player. It is his seventh pool bar, so he has tons of experience running the billiards side of things. In 2016, Mark Griffin bought the pool bar, which means he’s owned it for about five years at the time of the Griff’s Bar Rescue episode. The bar is located on Decatur Blvd, about 2.5 miles from the main Las Vegas Strip. Griff’s Bar and Billiards is in Las Vegas, NV, just like all of the bars from the first half of Bar Rescue Season 8. It was Season 8 Episode 9 and the episode name was “Behind the 8 Ball”. Though the Griff’s Bar Rescue episode aired in July 2021, the actual filming and visit from Jon Taffer took place a couple of months before that during Bar Rescue’s Covid-19 inspired focus on Las Vegas. Griff’s Bar & Billiards was a Las Vegas, Nevada bar that was featured on Season 8 of Bar Rescue.
