The Union Is Now The Watershed Pub and… — What Happened After Bar Rescue?

The Union was a Midvale, Utah bar owned by Bill, who according to a recap by QNewsHub and RealityTVUpdates was more than $500,000 in debt, including $300,000 owed to his in-laws, by the time Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer arrived for the episode "Still Bill" (aired 2020-03-22). RealityTVUpdates reported that Taffer's surveillance found oversized drinks that, under Utah's 1.5-ounce liquor pour limit, came out watered down, and that the kitchen ran without a manager, resulting in overcooked, freezer-burned chicken wings served to customers. Taffer's crew renovated the bar and, according to RealityTVUpdates, renamed it The Midway Tavern, adding a carousel horse on the wall to fit a theme-park motif; RealityTVUpdates described The Midway as one of the rarer Bar Rescue makeovers that kept its new name and continued to perform well afterward.

The bar has since rebranded again. An online food-ordering link tied to the address, 7176 S 900 E, Midvale, UT 84047, still carries "the-midway" in its web address, but the business now operates as The Watershed Pub and Kitchen; Yelp's listing for The Watershed at the same address was updated 2026-08. A site check on 2026-09-08 found watershedutah.com online, titled "The Watershed Pub and Kitchen | Enjoy Food & Fun – Visit Today," with an active online ordering widget, though the page did not display a copyright year or other explicit 2026-dated text beyond the live ordering system.

A separate, older Yelp listing under the name "The Midway," also tied to 7176 S 900th E and updated 2026-05, had not been updated to reflect the newer Watershed name at the time of this search. No source reviewed here specified when or why the change from The Midway Tavern to The Watershed Pub and Kitchen took place; the bar-and-grill concept, with darts, pool tables, and nightly karaoke under the Midway name, appears to have continued in some form under the Watershed branding based on the shared address and ordering-system link.