barBar Rescue · Season 5, Episode 12 · Aired November 13, 2016
Triple Nickel Tavern
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Same name retained since the S5E12 rescue. RestaurantGuru direct listing shows the business as currently operating ("Opens at 12PM"), no permanently-closed tag, at 103 S Wahsatch Ave.
What happened on the show
A former punk rocker overwhelmed by tragedy was letting his grief bleed into how he ran his bar, and his constant roughhousing with the employees drew Taffer's ire. At Triple Nickel Tavern in Colorado Springs, the owner's rough, physical rapport with his staff had crossed from camaraderie into a management problem, layered on top of the personal loss he was carrying. The rescue worked to help the owner process the tragedy while resetting the boundary between friend and boss that the roughhousing had erased. Taffer kept the Triple Nickel name through the makeover, a signal that the punk-rock bar's identity was worth preserving once its owner steadied himself, betting that helping a grieving man find his footing could steady the room he had been running on raw emotion.
After the cameras left
Triple Nickel Tavern is still open, name intact. A RestaurantGuru listing shows the business currently operating at 103 South Wahsatch Avenue, with posted opening hours and no permanently-closed tag, which puts the open call at high confidence. The punk rocker's bar survived both his grief and the roughhousing that had defined it, keeping its original identity and its doors open, landing this one among the clearer survivors in the Colorado Springs run of season five.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.