Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson (2020)

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in 1960's Chicago, Dave Anderson didn't eat much deep dish. Instead, his dad took the family to the South Side for barbecue, and those memories—and aromas—stayed with him.

For years, Dave tinkered with his own recipes for sauces and sides while working as a salesman and business advisor to Native American tribes. Finally in 1994, he opened his first barbecue shack in the last place you might expect to find one: the little town of Hayward, Wisconsin.

The chain grew quickly—too quickly—and Dave developed a love-hate relationship with the brand he'd created, but never lost his passion for smoked ribs and brisket. Today, Famous Dave's has over 100 restaurants across the U.S., making it one of the largest barbecue chains in the country.

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0:30.0	Hello everyone, so as a lot of you know, we produce
0:34.0	88 brand new episodes of How I Built This, a year.
0:38.0	And it's a lot of work.
0:40.0	So this week we are taking a quick break to reset
0:43.0	and replying this one from our archives.
0:45.0	It's an amazing episode.
0:47.0	It's a story of Dave Anderson, who turned his childhood love of barbecue
0:51.0	into a national chain called Famous Dave.
0:54.0	Barbecue chain that started in a tiny town in rural Wisconsin.
0:58.0	And the story of Famous Dave is really a story about everything good
1:03.0	and everything bad that can happen when you go into the food business.
1:07.0	We first ran it about two years ago.
1:09.0	It's an awesome story and I hope you enjoy it.
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