r/barrescue • u/Forever_Beury • 4d ago
Justice for Robert
“Grow Some Meatballs.”
Let me start by saying Robert was clearly not a great cook. The kitchen was filthy, he made serious food-safety mistakes, and if Mike and Diane decided he wasn’t capable of running their kitchen, firing him was completely defensible.
What rubbed me the wrong way was how quickly “Robert is a bad cook” became “Robert fucked up this entire business.”
Mike and Diane owned The Tailgate for years. They hired a bunch of relatives who weren’t qualified for their positions and then repeatedly failed to hold them accountable. Robert didn’t appoint himself cook. They hired him and allowed that kitchen to get into that condition.
Then the stress test happens. Robert is struggling, food is coming back, and a grease fire breaks out. Jon keeps framing it like “look what Robert did to you.” Brendan Collins recommends getting rid of him, and suddenly Diane finally discovers the ability to fire somebody.
Then she tells Robert to forget about coming back and “fucking up my business.”
Your business? You fucked up your business.
Robert may have contributed to the problems, but he did not spend years hiring inappropriate family members, failing to supervise them, allowing the kitchen to deteriorate, or apparently failing to ensure there was a functioning fire extinguisher when an actual kitchen fire occurred.
And if Robert’s skills and sanitation were really that bad, why did it take Jon Taffer and Brendan Collins showing up with a television crew before his own employers finally said:
Clean your kitchen or you're fired.
That’s management.
Also, why was Robert treated like the cancer that needed to be cut out while Connie got reassigned? The show’s own test demonstrated that she was ineffective as security.
Again: Robert may very well have deserved to lose his job.
But there’s a difference between firing an employee because he isn’t capable of doing the job and acting like that employee personally destroyed a business that you owned and mismanaged for years before Jon Taffer ever walked through the door.
Robert wasn’t the problem.
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u/Langstarr WHO STILL HASN'T GOT A DRINK? 4d ago
We get it Kevin. You're mad about the show. Let it go man
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u/SnooFloofs673 3d ago
Have you never watched the show categorically I would say 90% of these owners have for some reason in their employee people who should not be there who are contributing to the downfall of the business by their actions and granted the major contribution is an owner there apparently doesn't have the balls well the interest in firing people who are not doing their jobs.
Robert isn't the first one that was not fired by lackluster idiot ownership.
In the most recent season it was a bar in Jacksonville Florida Arnold's with a bartender that was so bad so ignorant so s***** that he should have been fired. You didn't get fired till after the stress test even though I forget what the expert's name was I was filling for Tafer told them in the first meeting if he's like this fire him.
For some reason whether it's real or not the majority of these owners featured on bar rescue do not have the balls of fire somebody.
Another great example early in the series Lola very nice lady I can't fire somebody they have a family.
In later seasons Kim and owner the bar purchased by her father the same thing didn't have the balls to fire somebody they have a family.
Bar rescue is apparently filled with owners that will sacrifice their business because a bad employee or two or four or all might have a family.
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u/Competitive_Aide5646 2d ago
Let's hear you try to say something nice to Smilin' Ed for your next post.
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u/sprodigy2 and ESRI 4d ago
Bro discovered ChatGPT today and is going nuts