Two CBBQA business members take on Nevada

By Jeff Jones CBBQA President
June 2, 2003

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Outlaw BBQ Catering and Jeff's Classic BBQ Sauce were invited to be the only vendors for the Ramada Express Hotel Casino in Laughlin NV Nov 21 & 22. They were the host of the Big Ass Barbecue Event. This weekend was the Rodeo Ropers Finals with over 3,000 competitors and also a huge Gambling Tournament. The Ramada provided the Bluegrass bands that played all weekend and Outlaw cooked over 2,000lbs of Pork Butt, Beef Brisket and Chicken. Jeff's Classic BBQ Sauce sold over 1,200 bottles of sauce and used over 9 gallons of sauce. The Ramada Express served the barbecue lunch on Friday and Saturday for the guests and public with beans, coleslaw, salads, cornbread and then the pulled pork, brisket and chicken.

On Thursday afternoon Lee Fisher of Outlaw BBQ fired up his Southern Yankee Bar-B-Q with Hickory and the fun began. At 5:00pm Brisket and Butt were put on this awesome cooker and it went nonstop until Saturday at 5:00pm. This cooker was amazing, at 8:00am Friday morning we pulled off the brisket and butts and I have never seen more juicy and tender butts and brisket without basting. They cooked from 5:00pm Thursday until 8:00am Friday and were perfect. Why does than happen when you are not in a competition? Once the beef and pork were taken off, then chicken was put on. Imagine an 8 foot long rotisserie pit with 300 pounds of chicken in it. Again the chicken was awesome and it was basted with Jeff's Classic BBQ sauce giving it that great barbecue look and taste we all love on chicken.

Doug of Big Moose BBQ and Pete from Pit Stop BBQ were also there helping with all this meat as well as Audrey of Outlaw (Lee's wife) who applied all the rubs to all that meat and Karen of Jeff's Classic (Jeff's Wife) who moved more sauce than she ever imagined. Not only was the Ramada impressed but some of the other hotels came over and booked us for several events in 2004 and also the town's annual bluegrass festival. Between Outlaw BBQ, Jeff's Classic BBQ Sauce and Southern Yankee Bar-B-Q this was an incredible event, lots of happy guests and over 2,000 pounds of meat cooked and 1,200 bottles of sauce sold and not to mention the 9 gallons the hotel used.

The executive Chef of the Ramada, Raphael, said it was the first time they sold out of both days and that the other hotels wanted to do the same at their hotels. They saw the lines of people going around the building and wanted to know what we were doing. He told them to come on over and find out. He also stated that as a last minute change they decided to put Jeff's Classic BBQ Sauce on their pork ribs they serve in the buffet and for the first time they received compliments on how good the ribs were. The Executive Chef was surprised and amazed.

 

For more information contact:

Lee of Outlaw BBQ Catering @ 714-633-0080 lee@outlaw-bbq.com,

Jeff Classic @925-639-7436 jeff@jeffbbq.com

Lee is also the Southern California Distributor of Southern Yankee Bar-B-Q Pit Smokers http://www.sybbq.com/