Professor Elam

Weekend July 4, 2015

Texas is bar be que crazy, finding the 'best'

 bar be que restaurants has become the Holy Grail for Texas Monthly. 

Bill Miller operates 57 restaurants in the SA area, with others in Corpus and Austin. As a result in a fit of Rodney Dangerfield can't get no respect, on never hears about Bill Miller in Texas Monthly. But stop in any of the 57, and you will find it jammed with folks at lunch. Their Christmas and Thanksgiving order outs are legendary ins scope. 

To keep quality uniform, all the briquet is cooked at one downtown location and then trucked to the locations. 

Frankly I suspect that if there were only one Bill Miller location,  and like the Salt Lick in Driftwood, you had to drive say half way to Bandera, then a mile down dirt road,and if you wanted a beer you had to bring it yourself, Tx Monthly would kick dirt on Coopers and go bonkers over Bill Miller. 

Turnover in the restaurant industry is legend. Check out the Bill Miller policy on how to retain good employees here and Here.  Note that many managers start in high school and come back later. 

Again this is an example of managerial accounting in action, a great business model.