barBar Rescue · Season 6, Episode 4 · Aired April 1, 2018
King's Duck Inn
Merritt Island, Florida
It sold to new owners after the show in 2022.
What happened after
Same name retained through the S6E4 rescue (per Wikipedia, no rename). Closed April 2022 after nearly 60 years in business; property sold September 2022 for $310,000. Reopened under new ownership around June 2025 (grand-opening Facebook event; TripAdvisor reviews from June 2025 confirm "new owner now open").
Closure date on record: 2022-04 (closed); reopened ~2025-06 under new ownership
What happened on the show
A feud between an owner and her daughter was blasting apart the success of a bar located miles from Cape Canaveral, the family conflict flaring in the wake of the owner's father's death. At King's Duck Inn on Merritt Island, grief and a generational clash had destabilized a long-running room, and Taffer had to mend the family rift to save the business. The rescue kept the King's Duck Inn name through the makeover, a signal that a bar with decades of history was worth preserving once the mother and daughter stopped tearing at each other, betting that resolving the feud could restore a family legacy the father's death had thrown into turmoil. A bar located miles from Cape Canaveral had leaned on decades of local loyalty, and the rescue's job was to make sure the family feud did not squander goodwill built up over generations.
After the cameras left
King's Duck Inn's story runs closure and revival. The bar closed in April 2022 after nearly sixty years in business, and the property sold that September for 310,000 dollars, but it reopened under new ownership around June 2025, with a grand-opening event and June 2025 TripAdvisor reviews confirming a new owner had the doors open again. That two-and-a-half-year gap and the fresh 2025 signals put the status at medium confidence as sold and reopened, the historic room revived under new hands though its continued operation into 2026 was not independently reconfirmed.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.