Texas Is Losing Beloved BBQ Joints That Have Been Forced To Shut Down Over Skyrocketing Meat Prices

Texas BBQ Joints Crushed by Soaring Brisket Prices

Texas barbecue restaurants are shutting down as skyrocketing beef costs turn brisket from a working-class staple into an expensive luxury. According to the New York Post, pitmasters across the state say rising wholesale meat prices, inflation, and slowing customer traffic are making it harder to survive. “This is as bad as it gets,” Houston-area pitmaster Russell Roegels told the Washington Post. “Everybody’s at risk these days: You’re one bad w…

Texas Is Losing Beloved BBQ Joints That Have Been Forced To Shut Down Over Skyrocketing Meat Prices

Texas BBQ brisket The United States is home to a number of regions defined by their distinct approach to BBQ. That includes Texas, which has seen some once-popular spots shut down due to skyrocketing meat prices that have made it difficult to peddle the state’s signature cut. It’s believed humans and their taxonomic predecessors have harnessed fire to cook various types of meat for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of years, and that metho…

Some of Texas’ most famous BBQ joints forced to close due to sky-high beef prices

Texas barbecue joints are shutting their doors across the Lone Star State as sky-high beef prices turn brisket -- once the centerpiece of a blue-collar meal -- into a luxury item that many customers can no longer afford.

Beef prices are rising so fast some famed Texas BBQ joints are closing

BBQ joint owners in the Lone Star state told how they have been in ‘survival mode’ for a year now, as many fight to stay open

Some of Texas’s oldest barbecue joints close as meat prices skyrocket