On tonight's episode of Bar Rescue, Jon Taffer and crew are in Hollywood, Florida to try to rescue Heat Restaurant & Lounge. The bar is co-owned by Vin and Vanessa, who are husband and wife. They bought the bar in 2012 and things started to go downhill when they slashed prices, which attracted a bad crowd. Heat's bartenders also are out of control and they are giving away a ton of free drinks. They also act more like strippers than bartenders and are dancing for tips. Vin and Vanessa are supposedly $230,000 in debt and are losing $5,000 a month, so they called on Bar Rescue to help out.During the Bar Rescue makeover, Heat Restaurant & Lounge was renamed to Ele. The bar seems to have kept a variation of the name and goes by Ele Lounge and Ele Nightclub. Let's take a look at some information, reviews, and updates for Ele since Bar Rescue came and made all of the changes to the bar:
Reviews:
There have been no reviews of Ele since the Bar Rescue makeover.
Other News and Links:
- The Bar Rescue makeover happened in the middle of November 2014.
- Here are 3 preview videos for the episode from the Spike TV website - Video 1 (Intro), Video 2, Video 3 (Recon).
- Here is the old Heat Facebook page, which doesn't have any posts. There is no Ele Facebook page. There is also no website for the bar.
- Here are the Facebook pages of Vin (owner), Vanessa (owner), Isabella (bartender), Nini (bartender)
- Isabella posted on her Facebook page, "Let the count down begin this Sunday catch me on Spike Tv Season 4 Bar Rescue .. you can watch the preview now spiketv.com/barrescue. Please don't judge me it was for TV lmaooo pleading the 5th !!!!"
- She also commented on that post, saying the show "is real but I just acted a little out of control for it to be more interesting"
- Ele Lounge does have an Instagram page, which is pretty much a bunch of re-posted posters advertising each night at the club. It makes it seem like they have other people doing promotions for their events at the bar. There are "We Good Thursday's," "Heat Wave Fridayz", "Simply Sexy Saturdays", "Champagne Sundays", and Turn Up Tuesday. There is also an Instagram called Lesbians of Miami that advertises Lez Heat Thursdays at Ele Lounge.
- Most of the events advertise bottle service and hookahs, so apparently they have hookahs at the bar.
- There is a Heartless Entertainment Instagram that does Heat Wave Fridayz. In that, you will see recent pictures of the bartenders still up to their dancing ways. Here is a picture(right) of a bartender in the new outfit provided by Bar Rescue grinding for some $1 bills.
- Ele Lounge is having a watch party tonight at the bar, and the Instagram pages of some of the employees from the show are mentioned in the comments. They also seem happy with the makeover. (Link)
- Isabella, who was fired on the show, was back working at Ele shortly after the episode. Here she is with a new Ele Lounge uniform on.
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Conclusion:
This one was tough to get information on as there were no reviews, and the bar doesn't have any online presence besides an Instagram page. The bar has somewhat kept the name, and they seem to use both Ele Lounge and Ele Nightclub. They also seem to be happy with the makeover.
Rooting through the Instagram posters/pictures, it seems like not much has changed besides the name of the bar. The bartenders still seem to be dancing for more tips while working and Isabella was re-hired. Also, I doubt Jon Taffer would recommend the names that each of their weekly events have.
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