So it’s been a while since I posted anything new…besides our Friday Food Comas, I mean, so I’m gonna try and be more frequent on posting. Can’t _promise_ that I’ll be posting with any regularity, but I’m gonna try…

I gotta say it’s been a real roller coaster ride the last few months. We’ve added a couple new faces to the joint and we’ve been looking at expanding our reach. We had our first catering job and THAT was an “eye opener” !!! (More on that when I can relate what happened in a rational way – so don’t hold your breath on that coming any time soon.)

This year we were, again, asked 47,328 times why we didn’t do the rib cook off… uhhhh, yeeeaaahhh, no…

But the biggest thing to me is how many new friends we have made lately. I think that alone makes the 16-18 hour days I work worthwhile.

Since I have a commercial smoker that is pretty well sized to do a good day’s worth of business here at our little joint, what more is there? Well, I’d like to build a “real” BBQ Restaurant and Bar with a “real” menu. Ya see, here, if I plan everything exceptionally well, we can do a “boomer” of a day’s business and still not completely run dry. BUT, since I am an idiot most days and my crystal ball has been sitting in Ralph’s House Of The Occult – Sales, Rentals and Service, waiting for repair (something about a franistat being on inter-dimensional back order), I have to _guess_ on how much to smoke each night. And like an argument with She Who Must Be Obeyed (aka my wife), I go in with the best of intentions and a winning strategy and then end up a quivering pile of goo by the end of the day. So I think it’s time to take a look at building a bigger joint that has a big enough kitchen that I can REALLY show folks what we can do…

I have my beady little eyeballs on a prime location that is grossly under-served, food wise, and I want to get there and create a full-size restaurant-bar. But since I have pretty much everything I own in hock to support this joint, I have been looking at asking for help via investment to build and open our World Domination BBQ Joint. Also, since I am not the greatest business mind in the world, I’ll need help for that end of things. Folks, I can smoke and cook like a fiend, I’m totally willing to take a very minority “stake” in the venture while still making sure the food is still “top notch”. This joint is our “proof of concept” and our happy customers and on-line ratings prove that. But to make a long story dull, I’m asking for help and advice to really take this thing to a new level. If anyone knows anyone or a even a group of people wanting to sit down and talk about how we could form a partnership to corner a truly untapped market, I’m usually here from 4 AM (or earlier) until 7 PM (or later) 7 days a week (except Mondays, when I try and get out by 2-3 PM…so I can take a nap). BTW I am already serving a bunch of folks from that area who are BEGGING me to open a place there. I just don’t have the resources to make it happen.

Oh, and not to worry, we’ll be keeping this place open…I’m not gonna disappoint all the folks who have come in and supported us through our growing pains.

I’m all ears, folks…