If there's one aspect of Hotel Impossible that compared to Restaurant Impossible and Bar Rescue lags, it's that the owners so far are generally just too beaten down and/or can't be assed with life. I love the open visceral defiance by owners of the other shows. NO, I AM GOING BACK TO MY NOW PROVEN ON NATIONAL TV FAILED PRACTICES! THAT'S HOW WE'LL GET CUSTOMERS!
One of the recent Restaurant Impossibles had the owner getting upset because Robert was tearing up his rat infested kitchen/floors and remaking the menu to not have food the guy couldn't ever possibly cook. And there's been a few of that and Bar Rescue where the owner is clearly steaming through the changes. Then you look em up online and they instantly reverted like Piratz. (Although not generally back to a direction that was completely stupid from the conception.
Though some were never cut out for the business.) The people Jon sent into Piratz undercover were people from the prior season who immediately reverted 80% of his changes to their own bar.
A thing I really like about Bar Rescue compared to say, Restaurant Impossible, is there's no twenty plus minutes of WE WON'T FINISH IN TIME HOW WE WILL PAINT THIS WALL?!?!? To the point they can get three test services in during the time of the show when it takes Robert to do one.
I think the owners are just afraid of Anthony though. You have a bald guy running around your hotel freaking out over everything, that's far more scary than some giant dude yelling at you over your known outright shit quality. Plus the show couldn't make over an entire hotel with the budget, unlike a restaurant, bar, etc. It lends this air of guaranteed doom to the show, it's like Anthony is brought in to give last rites and explain why these non-chain hotels died. (And I'd watch it, along with the other shows plus Kitchen Nightmares/Tabitha's, without the likely needed hook of "we'll fix this overnight!" It's not the same thing exactly, but there was that show The Restaurant on NBC back in the day, and I really liked that as like the "collapsing" part of these shows/business, only there wasn't really any rescue. For the restaurant in the show, for Rocco it was called a nose job and selling frozen food.)
Not that I don't want to find out how he could die from the phone or bed or Gideon Bible in his hotel room each week.