After 15 years or so in the tire/service biz i'm ready for a change. I've found myself entertained by food and bbq than anything else the past couple years. I kicked around trying to do something part time, nights or weekends, for a while and I just couldn't put the stress on my family of a second job.
Everything just seemed to fall in line, a friend of a friend was getting out of the business due to the stress of trying to operate this as a second job and it had grown to where he couldn't maintain it anymore.
The guy wanted to keep his smoker so first was the challenge of finding a commercial 500 gallon smoker that wasn't 4/5 weeks out. 2 weekends ago a 10hr trip into Georgia landed me the best price I could find on one of these units.
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Fast forward to this tuesday, I purchased SmokeOut BBQ LLC and things are steam rolling right along. My last day at Best-One Tire will be May 9th and I will be jumping in full time into the bbq concession/catering field. A lot of residual business came along with it thats why I decided to purchase an operating business vs starting from scratch.
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I've had so much support from CR throughout the years wherever I went, and I thank all of you. If you're fans of BBQ check out the website http://www.smokeoutbbq.com (though we're making a few changes currently) Follow me on Facebook (SmokeOut BBQ & Catering) or Instgram @smokeoutbbq
Company lunches, parties, graduations, weddings, and holidays give me a chance to wow you with my meat in your mouth :lolguy:
I'm trying to work with Anthony and get out to some/all of the track days.
My work number will stick with me till I leave. My phone number will change to the business number sometime here in the next week. My old 614-256-4040 will still get to me through google voice. For those in my phone i'll be sending out a mass text here soon with the new number.
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