Gerri's Sports Pub Is Now Jerzy's Sports Pub — Bar Rescue Update

Bar Rescue (Paramount Network) featured Gerri's Sports Pub in Margate, Florida, in the season 9 episode "Thank You for (Not) Smoking," which aired June 2, 2024. According to the fan site realitytvupdates.com, the bar's problems centered on decades of indoor smoking that had yellowed surfaces throughout the space, moldy pizza, and staff who kept smoking behind the bar even though the practice fell outside the location's grandfathered smoking allowance; the same source reported host Jon Taffer called the space one of the least appealing bars he had encountered. Per realitytvupdates.com, the rescue renamed the bar from Gerri's Sports Pub to Jerzy's Pub and required the venue to convert to non-smoking, a change the source described as a significant shift for the bar's longtime regulars.

By September 2026, the location's Google Places listing showed it operating under the name Jerzy's Sports Pub, and a Facebook page under that name was active for the address at 6500 W Atlantic Blvd. Listings on Restaurantji and Bipper Media, both found under the Jerzy's name, showed customer reviews and posted hours of roughly 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Realitytvupdates.com noted that, as of its own check, Margate's Google Business listing for the address still carried the old Gerri's Sports Pub name in places even though government business records had already switched to Jerzy's, and it described the bar's online presence as thin enough that it could not fully confirm whether every Bar Rescue change had lasted. No source found in this check disputed that the location continues operating as a sports bar at the same address; the name change from Gerri's to Jerzy's appears to have held even where some directory listings lag behind it. The venue's current offerings, per its Facebook page and the Bipper Media and Wanderlog listings, include Friday-night karaoke, pool tables, and poker games, consistent with its original sports-bar identity carried forward under the new name.