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You Gotta Try This

Shut It Down ft. Jon Taffer | You Gotta Try This Ep. 53

You Gotta Try This

Barstool Sports

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.9643 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jon Taffer hosts the hit show "Bar Rescue" and is recognized as America’s beverage, dining & hospitality authority. He's also a New York Times best-selling author, creator, executive producer, and sought-after business strategist. Taffer has advised thousands of properties and Fortune 500 companies, helping America drink & dine better. Today, he joins Large to talk all things food, hospitality & more. Enjoy! Stream new episodes of Bar Rescue on Paramount Network and find Jon on social media @jontaffer. Food Deserves Pepsi

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0:00.0

Hey, you got to try this listeners.

0:01.4

You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. And Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hey, everybody, welcome. I'm back. It's a you got to try this podcast with myself Large with Ian Becker on the ones and twos. Ian Becker, the P&L record. He's my producer. And today's guest is going to be none other than John Taffer.

0:22.5

John Taffer from, what's called, Bar Rescue. It's going into its 10th season. I thought it was a restaurant rescue for the bar rescue. 10th season. Dave's been on it. Big Cat's been on it. Chef Michael Ferraro who is down with us has been on it.

0:36.7

Just that absolute powerhouse.

0:38.3

So he's in town today.

0:39.6

He's going to do this show.

0:41.1

Then we're going to do some. chef Michael Ferraro, who is down with us, has been on it. Just that absolute powerhouse.

0:38.3

So he's in town today.

0:39.6

He's going to do this show.

0:41.1

Then we're going to do some drink content with Rico upstairs.

0:44.5

So hold on for John and be prepared to see a lot more from him in the next week or so here at Barstool.

0:50.5

Ian, I got invited to my first influencer event.

0:53.8

I've been invited to other ones where it's like foods specific type of foods have tried to, you know, just promote it.

1:01.0

But I think this is I got invited from TikTok.

1:04.1

I'd ask if I could do a plus one.

1:06.0

They said no.

1:07.2

So I'm going to go there and I guess rub elbows with people who kind of do what we do. How excited am I for that? Over under, you're the oldest person there by five and a half years. I would think that. Five and a half is a low now. Over under by like nine and a half years. So you think that I'm about a decade older than everybody there? I think that there's going to be outliers like me. I think there will be some outliers like me, but for the most part, if we were to do averages. Maybe some people like grandparents. Right. So yeah, so I got that coming out. I'll, I'll, I don't know, report back to you guys when I do go to it.

1:44.5

I'm looking forward to it, actually.

1:45.6

I want to see what these things are all about. It's in an undisclosed location. In disclose, whatever, it's a TBD location. They can't let it out right now. So they're going to tell me closer to the event. When is it? It's late next week. So we probably won't talk about it for another week or two. But either way, the man's involved.

2:02.8

Call me old.

2:03.5

Call me whatever you want.

2:04.4

I'm fucking interested. weeks, so we probably won't talk about it for another week or two. But either way, the man's involved.

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