Normally I don't respond to reviews because tastes are subjective and people are entitled to their own preferences when it comes to taste, but commentary on prices I just can't let slide.
It is quite easy for people to dine at Feast BBQ and order a sandwich, a side, and a drink and be out the door for $11.45++ per person. If you choose to order the most expensive things on the menu, you will pay more. That is a choice you have made. Pricing is not arbitrarily picked out of a hat for us. Everything, including the napkins you use and the lights we keep on is factored into the prices we offer - which means Brisket and Ribs are more expensive because they cost us 2-3X the price of things like Pork Shoulder.
We also pay our employees well over minimum wage, offer free meals to them when they work, 50% off at any of our restaurants, and offer to cover 50% of their healthcare when they work 30 or more hours and week - and I wish more of them would.
We run small locally owned businesses that do not benefit from the purchasing power that large chains receive and we buy real ingredients - not cheese from a can, that take time and labor (expensive labor because we choose to pay people more) to turn into real quality products.
I make literally pennies on the dollar doing it. And still somehow end up donating thousands of dollars every year to local charities since restaurants are always the first businesses to get asked to help.
We have a bigger mission that keeps us going, and it's not providing consumers the cheapest food possible (which would only be possible with paying our employees an unfair wage and using pre-made products). There are already plenty of restaurants doing this service.
https://insiderlouisville.com/lifestyle ... symposium/We have been honored to be named the best barbecue restaurant in Louisville according to the readers of the LEO Weekly and Louisville Magazine for many years in a row now, despite competition from better funded restaurant groups with many more locations.
You don't have to like our food, that's fine, but you should never complain about any restaurants prices.
For comparison:
1 Pulled Pork Sandwich & Macaroni with Cheese at City Barbecue $8.88
1 Pulled Pork Sandwich & Macaroni with Cheese at Mission Barbecue $8.88
1 Pulled Pork Sandwich & Macaroni with Cheese at Feast BBQ $8.95
Also 3 Chicken Tenders and a side at Royals Hot Chicken is $9.00