The China Grove Trading Post

What happened after

Renamed The Tipsy Bull during its Bar Rescue makeover; that concept closed by October 2018 (before the May 2019 episode aired). The property was then purchased by longtime regulars Jim and Sue Sutter and reopened as Mr. Jim's Trading Post, which retains the neighborhood-bar concept (and the taxidermied coyote from the episode).

Closure date on record: 2018-10

What happened on the show

A couple on the brink of retirement could not stop enabling their belligerent daughter, and Taffer had to make them face facts. At The China Grove Trading Post outside San Antonio, the country bar's owners were letting their daughter's behavior undermine the business they hoped to retire on, and the rescue centered on getting the parents to confront the reality of what her enabling was costing them. Taffer reopened the venue as The Tipsy Bull, a rebrand meant to give the country bar a sharper identity once the family dynamic was addressed, betting that parents forced to face facts about their daughter could preserve the retirement they had staked on the room, complete with the taxidermied coyote the episode made memorable.

After the cameras left

The China Grove property runs closure and revival. The Tipsy Bull concept closed by October 2018, before the May 2019 episode even aired, but the room did not stay dark: longtime regulars Jim and Sue Sutter bought it and reopened it as Mr. Jim's Trading Post, keeping the neighborhood-bar concept and even the episode's taxidermied coyote. CultureMap San Antonio, an independent local outlet, confirmed both the closure and the Sutters' reopening, which puts the status at high confidence as sold, the country bar carried forward by regulars who loved it.