Tag: Plowboys Barbeque

No ribbon cutting when a business closes, Plowboys founder says: Know how to start (and stop) on your own terms

By Tommy Felts / March 8, 2024

A year and a half after Todd Johns closed his restaurants to focus instead on Plowboys-branded retail products, Johns would rather leave a legacy that’s felt within the Kansas City barbecue community than be known as a legend, he shared. “I’d rather know that I helped someone here,” the president of Plowboys Foods told attendees…

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KC’s favorite BBQ: Interest in these 10 restaurants surged with curbside curiosity, Lelex Prime says

By Tommy Felts / December 28, 2020

Editor’s note: The following report was produced with analytical support from Lelex Prime, a non-financial, content partner of Startland News. Kansas Citians had impressive appetites in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brendan Reilly said, downloading a massive haul of Lelex Prime-collected data that analyzed trends in one of the metro’s favorite categories — barbecue. …

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