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Dickey's Barbecue Pit Restaurants

Texas-style barbecue restaurant

Dickey’s Barbecue was founded in 1941 by Travis Dickey in a one-room building at the intersection of Knox and Central Expressway just north of downtown Dallas. The original store had sawdust on the floors and sold beef brisket, ham and ribs. If you wanted a vegetable, you could have potato chips or barbecue beans, or both. Add a bottle of soda, milk or beer and that was the entire menu. This changed when his two sons, Roland and T.D., Jr. took over the business in 1967. They began to modernize the restaurants and add more meats and vegetables to the menu, which now boasts up to eight meats and eighteen, fresh and homemade vegetables.

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Start-up Costs & Franchises Fees

How much does it cost to open a Dickey's Barbecue Pit Restaurants Franchises?

Total Investment: $450,000-$1,700,000
Initial Franchise Fee: $25,000
Royalty Fee: 4%
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Dickey's Barbecue Pit Restaurants News

Dickey's Barbecue Pit Partners With Zeeprobe To Launch Nationwide Customer Satisfaction Program
Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc., parent of the nation's fastest growing barbecue restaurant chain Dickey's Barbecue Pit, recently debuted a nationwide customer satisfaction program. Listening and responding to customer's experiences, perceptions and feedback has always been at th... more

Dickey's Barbecue Sells Franchise To Game Show Winner
U.S. Marine Captain Robert Rutter won $500,000 on the FOX game show "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" Now he hopes to use part of his winnings and cash in on a barbecue restaurant franchise. Rutter signed on with Dickey's Barbecue, a 67-year-old company based in Dallas that's... more

Dickey's Barbecue Opens New Prototype
Dickey's has opened its newest prototype in south Fort Worth , TX . The free-standing building is 3,000 sq ft and requires about 30,000 sq ft of land. Building costs have been lowered by 30% from the previous design and land requirement have been reduced by 25%. Additionally, all costs associate... more

Dickey's Barbecue Pit Franchise On Expansion Fast Track!
Dickey's Barbecue Pit is expanding outside of their Dallas-based home. By the end of 2005, the family-owned company plans to have 20 or more freestanding or end cap locations in markets across Texas . Expansion plans include Dallas , Fort Worth , Houston and Bryan-College Station. "We ar... more

Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants Rank In The Top 50 Nationwide
According to the July 15, 2004 edition of Restaurant Business magazine, Dallas-based Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc. ranked 16 out of the 50 fastest-growing restaurant chains in the country for 2003. The ranking is a 31% increase over 2002. Dickey's experienced a sales ranking of 9 out o... more

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Franchise History

When did the first Dickey's Barbecue Pit Restaurants open? 1941
When did Dickey's Barbecue Pit Restaurants start Franchising? 1994

Year	U.S.A.	Canada	International	Corporate
2008	85	0	0	5
2003	56	0	0	5
2002	49	0	0	5
2001	35	0	0	5
2000	31	0	0	5
1999	26	0	0	4

Expansion Plans

United States: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming,

Financing Options

Expense	In-House	Third Party
Franchise Fee	No	No
Startup Costs	No	Yes
Equipment	No	Yes
Inventory	No	Yes
Accounts Receivable	No	No
Payroll	No	No

Third Party Financing Source(s): the SBA

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• BBQ, Steaks & Ribs Franchise Opportunities
• Franchises $250K to $500K

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