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Jon Taffer
Jonathan Peter Taffer (né Cass, born November 7, 1954) is an American entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known for hosting the reality series Bar Rescue on Paramount Network and Face the Truth on CBS with Vivica A. Fox.
Taffer was born in Great Neck, New York on November 7, 1954, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father died from a heart attack in 1956, and Jon took his surname from his second stepfather, Lester Taffer. He graduated from William A. Shine Great Neck South High School in Great Neck in 1972, and after a short time at the University of Denver studying political science and minoring in cultural anthropology, he relocated to Los Angeles.
Taffer was born into a family of entrepreneurs. He first worked as a bartender in 1973 for Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood while performing as a drummer in a band.
Taffer's first bar management job was at The Troubadour night club in West Hollywood in 1978. In 1981, he was given full control of the bar, where staff theft was common. He opened his first bar as owner in 1989.
In 1989, Taffer patented an apparatus and method for selecting and playing music. The patented system includes a set of color-coded books containing listings of music on records available to an establishment, indexed by energy, type, and tempo.
Taffer is credited with creating the NFL Sunday Ticket pay programming package, which was launched in 1994, and was instrumental in the marketing, distribution and sales programs of that endeavor, for which he served on the board of NFL Enterprises for three years.
In 2010, he was appointed as president of the Nightclub and Bar Media Group, a division of Questex Media Group, which is responsible for Nightclub & Bar Magazine as well as the annual Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show.
He was one of the first six inductees in the Nightclub Hall of Fame. On July 17, 2011, a reality television series, Bar Rescue, premiered on Spike TV (now the Paramount Network), that follows Taffer as he revitalizes failing bars and nightclubs across the United States. His wife Nicole occasionally appears on the show as a mystery shopper who assesses the quality of the bar before Taffer does the makeover.
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Jon Taffer
Jonathan Peter Taffer (né Cass, born November 7, 1954) is an American entrepreneur and television personality. He is best known for hosting the reality series Bar Rescue on Paramount Network and Face the Truth on CBS with Vivica A. Fox.
Taffer was born in Great Neck, New York on November 7, 1954, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father died from a heart attack in 1956, and Jon took his surname from his second stepfather, Lester Taffer. He graduated from William A. Shine Great Neck South High School in Great Neck in 1972, and after a short time at the University of Denver studying political science and minoring in cultural anthropology, he relocated to Los Angeles.
Taffer was born into a family of entrepreneurs. He first worked as a bartender in 1973 for Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood while performing as a drummer in a band.
Taffer's first bar management job was at The Troubadour night club in West Hollywood in 1978. In 1981, he was given full control of the bar, where staff theft was common. He opened his first bar as owner in 1989.
In 1989, Taffer patented an apparatus and method for selecting and playing music. The patented system includes a set of color-coded books containing listings of music on records available to an establishment, indexed by energy, type, and tempo.
Taffer is credited with creating the NFL Sunday Ticket pay programming package, which was launched in 1994, and was instrumental in the marketing, distribution and sales programs of that endeavor, for which he served on the board of NFL Enterprises for three years.
In 2010, he was appointed as president of the Nightclub and Bar Media Group, a division of Questex Media Group, which is responsible for Nightclub & Bar Magazine as well as the annual Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show.
He was one of the first six inductees in the Nightclub Hall of Fame. On July 17, 2011, a reality television series, Bar Rescue, premiered on Spike TV (now the Paramount Network), that follows Taffer as he revitalizes failing bars and nightclubs across the United States. His wife Nicole occasionally appears on the show as a mystery shopper who assesses the quality of the bar before Taffer does the makeover.