Grand Rapids Business Journal
The first West Michigan location for a national barbecue chain will open soon.
Dublin, Ohio-based City Barbeque will host a grand opening for its location in Kentwood, at 3050 28th St. SE, on April 8, according to the company today.
The Kentwood barbecue joint will smoke all meats on site and serve a variety of items: barbecue; salads; homemade sides, including fries, green beans, mac and cheese and potato salad; and from-scratch desserts, such as peach cobbler, banana pudding and triple chocolate cake.
“At City Barbeque, we are 100-percent devoted to the craft of barbeque,” the chain says on Facebook. “We refuse to cut corners or take any shortcuts.”
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Smart Business Magazine
4:38pm EDT March 3, 2021
“I was lying on the sofa, late December of 2000, and I’m telling my wife, ‘I might have lost everything already.’ And she said, ‘You’re a smart guy. You’ll figure something else out.”
That’s Rick Malir, co-founder and CEO of City Barbeque, reflecting on the opening of his second restaurant shortly after the successful launch of his first. It was a move that led to losing so much money that it almost sunk the company.
But instead, the experience began to inform a better approach to growth, one predicated on people or, more specifically, the right people at the right time. That retooled approach helped City Barbeque, a fast-casual restaurant company focused on “smoker-to-table” barbeque, reach 26 locations and set it on its current private-equity-backed path toward 100 restaurants and a national footprint.