It has been nearly two months since Bar Rescue visited O'Face Bar and I belatedly learned some of the fallout from the bar's infamous reality TV experience. O'Face Bar has lost its liquor license:
The Council Bluffs City Council on a 3 to 2 vote Money evening recommended denial of the liquor license for the bar recently seen on the reality television show, "Bar Rescue."Council Bluffs' mayor claims that the city has been irreparably harmed by O'Face Bar's episode of Bar Rescue, which seems like a lot of hyperbole to me.
The annual vote on renewing the liquor license for the O-Face Bar, 2400 Ninth Ave., was on the council agenda, along with other bars... Of the seven applications given to the council for approval, the O-Face Bar's was the only one that ended with a recommendation to deny...
The three council members who opposed the continued liquor license, along with Mayor Matt Walsh, felt the show put Council Bluffs in a bad light. "The City is also suffering as a result of this show," (Council member Lynne) Branigan said...
(Council members Melissa Head and Sharon White) both said that health officials could not find any violations that would warrant a license denial.
O'Face Bar's owner, Matthew Overmyer, plans to appeal this recommendation. I would imagine that he will be successful with his appeal.