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I feel it's a stretch to call Dickey's a BBQ place given my experience of the food there. Maybe a roast-beef place.

Indeed. While Dickey's was originally a Texas restaurant, most Texas BBQ aficionados would never eat there, because they wouldn't consider Dickey's product BBQ.

See: Starbucks and Seattle residents.

As an Austinite it’s true. Dickey’s is pretty frowned upon here to the point that most locals refuse to eat there. Though we do have a different BBQ chain in the South called Rudy’s which is surprisingly good for being a chain restaurant and normally is considered acceptable to even the snobbiest of BBQ sommeliers.

Rudy's is my goto for edible BBQ when I'm outside Texas, although the quality varies from location to location (the one in Manitou Springs, Colorado is much better than the one in Albuquerque IMO. Go figure.)

It's good that I don't live in Austin any more because I'd probably camp at Franklin's 24/7 and never leave. Although I don't know if or how Franklin works during COVID.

I got Franklin’s a couple of weeks ago. It’s a pretty standard curbside system: you book a slot online and go pick it up at that slot. Only thing that has changed is that you now only need 3 lb minimum of meat instead of the previous 5 lb. It’s also even more eye-wateringly expensive (but of course I happily pay it anyway, because it’s Franklin’s).

The shocking thing is that 3M went to Dickey's.

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