barBar Rescue · Season 2, Episode 5 · Aired August 19, 2012
The Olive Pit
Orange, California
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show. It trades today as The O.P..
What happened after
Bar at 834 E Lincoln Ave Ste B; renamed 'The O.P.' after Bar Rescue and continues operating under that name.
What happened on the show
A long-running Orange, California, dive bar was being pulled under by the very man who owned it, whose drinking and behavior toward women had gotten bad enough to threaten the place with closure. At The Olive Pit, Taffer's fix ran straight through the family, pushing the owner's daughter to step forward and take real control of the room her father was jeopardizing. It was a generational handoff forced by necessity, the rescue betting that fresh, sober leadership from within the family could save a bar its founder was actively endangering. Taffer reopened the room as The O.P., a modernized shorthand of the old name that let the business keep its neighborhood equity while making clear who was now in charge behind the bar. The through-line here was less about menus or decor than about authority, about getting a capable daughter to step up before her father's habits closed the doors on both of them for good.
After the cameras left
The O.P. is still trading under that name, per its Yelp listing, though the current status carries a caveat. Direct fetches to Yelp were blocked by 403s during both the original pass and a re-check, and the round-robin search endpoints did not surface an alternate citable source before rate-limiting, so the open call rests on medium confidence. The best available evidence has the daughter's bar continuing, but it has not been independently confirmed live this pass.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.