Thanks for all the encouragement! Now here is a huge THANKS to the SMF!!
We kicked butt!!! Pun intended!!! Started the Butts smoking Thursday to make sure I had some for Friday Lunch...well when you place your smoker outside the back screen door and that TBS floats in...well you get the picture... That evening I had some pulled and they have been smelling it for hours so they asked if I would sell a couple that night...aw what the heck...kept em waiting this long...sold 7 piled sandwiches of real bbq goodness!! The club Mgr walks by see the size and asks me if I should cut back on my portions....well NO!! I had him look at this pan of meat sitting here and after selling 7 it's all profit!!! He couldn't believe it!! I had 32 butts to do!!
So Friday the big day is here...I'm back up at the club at 7:00am...oh forgot to mention I had couple of Strohs and didn't leave until 2:00am!! Well by 7:30 the smokers are loaded again and I'm serving sammies out of the kitchen for lunch in the dining room...Around 4:00 I set up outdoors in the parking lot and now I'm running the smokers and serving inside and out until 2 of my good buds come up to help! I sold a couple hundred sammies and dinners and I couldn't count how many people go out of their way to come back a tell me how good it was!! Now the bad part...I was put in the middle of the Club Mgr and a Girl who thought she could run this whole thing well the Mgr was pissed at her and took it out on me...wrong thing to do after 18 hours of working up their for free!!!! Well this 249LB bald guy went nuts on him...told him I was done and he could figure out what he was going to do with the rest of the meat on Sat...
Now it's Sat around noon and I'm sitting at home waiting for a trustee to come in so I can turn in my card and keys...then a good buddy of mine who played in the band the night before called me...he is also a brother Eagle...and starts with the...It's not about him...It's about the Club...the people are loving your food and you are enjoying making it...He said he watched me and he could tell!! He said be the bigger man and just tell him to stay out of your way or you'll stuff his head...you know where!!! He talked me into it!! My wife looked at me handed me my spritz bottle said I'll drop you off go kick some more ***!!!! Now we sold another 300-400 sammies...I lost count we were so busy!!! I had people telling me over and over that this was the best BBQ they ever had!!!!!! SMF take a bow couldn't of done it without you!!!
Some side notes...The Club Mgr came up to me and apologized over and over...he was damn near crying...he never meant it towards me but he had a few whiskies in him and I was the one there...told him never do that again or one of us is going to be bleeding...not me!!!! We now have talked it out and he want me and my wife to Co-Chair it next year!!! The Ads will all say ....Yup FEATURING MARK WADE'S PULLED PORK SAMMIES!!!!!
For the man the threw the gauntlet down...well ended up talking to him...well low and behold...turns out that same girl instigated the comments out of him...he thought it was just a joke because he's just a smarta$$...here he knows all about the low and slow...has a
chargriller at home...we traded pulled pork for chicken strips...by then I didn't want to see another pulled pork sammie!!! After we shut down we knocked back quite a few and ended up pickled and good friends!!!
All in all it was a great weekend!!!!!!
Oh BTW my daughter has some pics she took I'm waiting for her to send them to me and I will add them one!!!
Take a huge bow SMF I learned this from you all!!! The whole town is talking about OUR pulled pork!!!!!!!!!!