What Happened to Win, Place or Show After Bar Rescue? (Fairfield, OH)

Win, Place or Show was a Fairfield, Ohio bar run by a former Navy man who struggled to manage the business while giving his partner, a musician, too much freedom to run the place his own way, when it appeared on the September 16, 2012 episode "Owner Ousted" (Bar Rescue S2E8). Per Wikipedia's episode summary and Dayton Daily News reporting from around the time of filming, Jon Taffer found an operational mess that was losing roughly $8,000 a month, with co-owner Barry Rogers working 90-hour weeks and feeling defeated by the business. Taffer's team gave the bar a barbecue-centered menu and relaunched it under a new name, America Live, with the bar reopening in April 2012 ahead of the episode's later broadcast date; the rock band Halestorm even played the grand reopening, a detail Wikipedia's season summary highlights as one of the more notable moments of Season 2.

The new concept did not survive the summer. The Dayton Daily News reported that by the time reporters visited, America Live's front door carried a simple sign stating the bar was closed, and that Rogers declined to explain what had happened, citing "legal reasons." A Facebook post attributed to the bar at the time claimed the owners had been forced out by community members who had been scheming to take the business, describing the loss of their "entire life savings," though that post was later removed and its claims were not independently verified by the newspaper.

A Spike spokesperson quoted in the same article said the bar had appeared to be doing well when the show's crew filmed its initial follow-up. Multiple Bar Rescue fan sites describe a series of later tenants at the 7121 Dixie Highway address, but none of those later claims were independently confirmed, and the address itself could not be geocoded from the sources available.