barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 40 · Aired June 29, 2025
Slotzy's Gaming Bar & Grill
Worden, Illinois
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by Vitale's Hideaway.
What happened after
Renamed "Vitale's Hideaway." The business's OWN Facebook page states directly: "Bar Rescue Re-Named Us: Vitales Hideaway", a primary, first-party confirmation.
What happened on the show
Slotzy's Gaming Bar and Grill in Worden, Illinois, run by owner Nick Lang since 2022, came in for the show's standard intervention and the season-nine finale, with Kat Timpf joining Taffer for the recon. The room went through Bar Rescue's usual arc of scrutiny, confrontation, a stress test and a renovation aimed at giving the struggling gaming bar a stronger footing. Taffer's team reopened the venue as Vitale's Hideaway, a rebrand meant to reposition the room, betting that a sharper concept and a disciplined operation could steady the business. The reveal handed the owner a new identity, with the familiar test of whether the changes would hold once the cameras left Illinois. A Worden gaming bar under owner Nick Lang since 2022, it had room to define itself, and the finale rescue aimed to give it a lasting identity.
After the cameras left
Vitale's Hideaway stuck and is still operating. The rebrand of Slotzy's is confirmed by the business's own Facebook page, which states directly that Bar Rescue renamed it Vitale's Hideaway, a primary first-party confirmation, under owner Nick Lang at 7708 State Route 4 in Worden, which puts the status at high confidence as a renamed survivor. The gaming bar carried the Vitale's Hideaway identity forward and kept its doors open, landing this one firmly among the survivors of the ninth season, whose finale this episode was.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.