'You Don鈥檛 Own Sh*t' | Bar Rescue S7 Sneak Peek - YouTube

Channel: Bar Rescue

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So here's my thought.
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I'd love you guys to go inside,
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get a feel for the place, and find Sean for me.
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I want to get the story from Sean.
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And then I'm going to get Mike
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and I'm going to get the story from him.
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And I want to see if I get the same story.
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This place is massive.
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The first thing I notice is it's like a country bar
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with a bull, with some old shit in the corner,
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and it was just enormous and ugly.
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Are you Sean? Jon Taffer's outside.
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- He wants to talk to you right now. - Okay.
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Can I get a watermelon breeze?
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- I'll do a beach cucumber. - All right.
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- Should we get nachos? - Yeah.
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I feel like you judge a place on the nachos.
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Jon.
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- Good to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
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I wanted to bring you out here and get the story from you.
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- So when did you open this? - Late summer of 2017.
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- Did you bring in investors? - I brought in investors,
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but we ended up running out of money.
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So what'd you do to get the money?
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I went back to the investment group.
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They would put in an additional $60,000,
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but if we defaulted, I would lose my shares.
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So what happened to the $60,000 note?
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I lost it.
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But they decided I would back away
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in exchange for 10% remaining equity.
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So, legally right now do you own 10% of this bar or not?
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Absolutely, I do.
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Mike's interpretation is absolutely I don't.
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- Do you get along with your partner? - No.
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- You pulling a salary? - No.
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So my question to you is can you turn this around?
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I believe that I can do this.
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I know I can. The problem is is Mike.
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All right, Sean. Why don't you go back in and go to work?
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Thank you.
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Jon: Sean called me to rescue this bar.
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But Mike disputes whether Sean even owns any of this bar.
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I can't understand who's an owner and who's not.
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- Are you Mike? Jon Taffer is outside. - Yes, sir.
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He'd like to discreetly speak with you.
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- Okay. - Could you go outside for me?
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So I'm gonna go talk to Mike
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and try to hear his side of the story.
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Are you gonna go first?
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Oh, my God, it's--
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There's just all sour mix.
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- Thank you. - Thank you.
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How do these nachos look?
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This cheese is legit cold.
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And it's, like, thick and it's almost grainy.
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It's so salty. I never thought you could ( bleep ) up nachos,
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but they have successfully screwed up the nachos.
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- Pleasure. - Likewise.
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Fill me in on this. Were you an investor
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when this opened two years ago originally?
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Yes. There were six of us originally.
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- And who was running it? - Sean. He had full control.
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He was in charge of the checkbook.
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He was in charge of everything that happened.
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Gotcha. So Sean put the deal together.
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- Yes. Correct. - Went to you guys.
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Now, is there a deal that he gave up his equity
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or anything? Tell me that.
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On the $60,000 loan we gave him,
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he signed a note guaranteeing he would pay back
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the 60 grand within a year plus interest.
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He never made one payment.
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Our note said if you don't make one payment,
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you default on 100% of your shares.
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So now he defaults,
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so now you guys own 100% of the business.
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100% Sean put a lot of sweat and time in here,
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so we didn't want to take everything.
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So we offered to leave him 10%.
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You know, trying to be generous. Sean wouldn't sign it.
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To this day, he has not signed it.
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- So he owns nothing? - He owns zero.
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- And is he getting paid? - Yes, I'm paying him.
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So he told me that he hasn't gotten paid for a year.
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- Is that right? - No.
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- So who owns it now? - Me.
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- You own 100% of it? - Yes.
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Because he just told me he owns 10% of this bar.
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Yeah, he tells me, "I own 10%." "Sean, you never signed shit."
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He goes, "I disagree. I signed it."
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"You never gave it back to us."
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He likes walking around acting like he's the owner.
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We have to clear this up. Do you agree?
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- 100%. - Okay.
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I'd like him to see us walk in together
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- so he understands we talked. - Okay.
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Okay, I've heard both sides of this story,
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and Sean's side of the story is not adding up.
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I don't think he owns any of this bar.
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So I've gotta resolve this issue between him and Mike
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before I can even begin rescuing it.
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Are you kidding me?
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I sat with you and heard a story from you.
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- Yeah. - I then sat with Mike
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and heard a completely different story.
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- Do you own this bar? - Yes, I do.
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- You don't own shit, Sean. - I do.
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I have the paperwork to prove it.
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- You have executed paperwork? - Yes.
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- That says you own 10% of this bar? - Yes, absolutely.
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- He doesn't have shit. - I've got it in my truck right now.
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- You can take a look at it, Jon. - Go get it.
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- Go get it. - Let's go.
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Mike: It's 100% bullshit.
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- I'm Jon, Kenny. Nice to meet you. - Hi. Kenny.
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Pleasure. Question, how many times do you hear him
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- say he owns the place? - Every single day.
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But he doesn't have that authority does he?
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No.
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- What do you got? - Right here.
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Show me an executed document.
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My signature, my former partner's signature,
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- their managing member's signature. - We've never gotten that.
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We never got that back. These are the only
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two signatures that were ever on that.
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This is the first time I've ever seen Sean's signature on there.
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This is the one that says,
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"You still have 10% ownership of the business."
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- It's not true. - Jon: Tell him!
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- You refused to sign it. - Bullshit. I never was given--
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Let me ask you this. Did you ever give this back to anyone?
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- I didn't get that until-- - Did you give this back to any one of us?
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- You gave it to me seven months later. - How long have you been here?
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You can't sit there and bark to me about timeframe.
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- How long have you been here? - Doesn't matter.
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Did you ever give this back to us?
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There was never--
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Show me where it has a timeframe.
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Yes or no, did you ever give it back to him?
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No. My attorney told me to hold on to it.
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So then they never got an executed document from you.
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They did know that it was executed. They did know it was signed.
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If they didn't get an executed document from your attorney,
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then the contract isn't closed, right?
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- They knew that it was-- - Sean, listen to me!
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If your attorney never
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sent back an executed copy, is it valid?
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Is an unexecuted document valid?
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- Yes or no? - No.
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So then, therefore, is it valid?
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I guess not.
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So you don't own shit!