'Bar Rescue' host Jon Taffer sounds the alarm as weight loss drugs threaten America's restaurants

"Bar Rescue" host Jon Taffer says restaurants face unprecedented challenges from GLP-1 drugs reducing customer appetite and drinking, as his show enters its 10th season.

"Costs are higher, customers are less frequent, things like GLP medications are reducing how much people eat, how much people drink," Taffer told Fox News Digital. "The reduced alcohol consumption trends — sure, there’s a lot of factors that are working to compress and work against the industry these days."

"And that’s why this season is so challenging for me, because of all of those pressures on all of these operators," he added. "And these people are in serious debt. I mean, it’s houses, cars, families on the line. It’s a heavy-duty situation that I’m thrown into, and I take it really seriously. That’s why I’m so aggressive."