What Happened to True Grit Tavern After Bar Rescue? (Maricopa, AZ)

True Grit Tavern appeared on Bar Rescue season 8, episode 12, "Wreck It Ralph," which aired August 15, 2021, at 20800 North John Wayne Parkway in Maricopa, Arizona. According to Phoenix New Times and other coverage of the episode, the bar, restaurant, and music venue was owned by Ralph Skrzypczak, whose focus on other business ventures and inexperience running a bar had put his family more than $500,000 in debt; Skrzypczak had borrowed money from his father to open the business. As part of the on-air rescue, Jon Taffer renamed the bar The Roost, according to pinalcentral.com's coverage of the makeover.

A fan recap site devoted to tracking the bar's post-show status reported that The Roost closed permanently on December 22, 2024. That page described the owner posting on Instagram around the same date that he and his father were exiting the restaurant and bar business altogether, and it was itself last updated February 9, 2025. No source found within the search performed for this record described a subsequent reopening, sale, or new use of the building. This restaurant's location could not be matched in either the Google Places data or the Census Bureau's geocoding service supplied with the show.

An address, 20800 North John Wayne Parkway, Maricopa, Arizona, was located through the single extra web search permitted for unlocated records, drawn from Phoenix New Times' and pinalcentral.com's coverage of the bar's Bar Rescue appearance. That address was submitted to the Census geocoder twice, once as written and once with an abbreviated street type and an assumed Maricopa zip code, and neither attempt returned a match, so coordinates are left blank here rather than estimated from a city center or other approximation. Given the confirmed December 2024 closure, no further status research was pursued for this record beyond verifying the address and closure date already described above.