Press Release

Approximately 25,000American households had Dickey's for Thanksgiving

(Dallas, TX) This year, approximately 25,000 Americanhouseholds enjoyed Dickey's turkey or ham at their Thanksgiving celebration,and more than 6,000 of those households celebrated with Dickey's full holidayfeast, including traditional homestyle sides. That's over 250,000 pounds ofholiday meats that traveled from Dickey's Barbecue Pits into homes acrossAmerica.

Dickey's Barbecue Pit increased Thanksgiving sales this yearby 17 percent and exceeded its full holiday feast sales by 25 percent. With therecord year of holiday sales, Dickey's is slated to sell approximately 365,000pounds of holiday turkey and ham by the New Year.

Over 33 million American households looked to restaurants toprovide at least a portion of their Thanksgiving meal this year, and Dickey'sworks to exceed its guests' expectations by providing quality homestyle mealsready to heat and serve.

“Folks like to take the hassle out of the holiday bypre-ordering a delicious holiday feast including Cajun-Fried and Smoked Turkeyor Barbecue Honey Ham complete with traditional holiday sides,” said RolandDickey, Jr. CEO, Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc.  “Sales numbers indicate that this continuesto be a growing trend for our guests so they can relax and enjoy the holidayrather than spending it preparing and cooking meals.”

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About Dickey'sBarbecue Restaurants, Inc.
Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc., the nation's largest barbecue chainwas founded in 1941 by Travis Dickey with the goal of authentic slow smokedbarbecue. Today, all meats are still slow smoked on-site in each restaurantliving up to the company tagline, “We Speak Barbecue.” The Dallas-basedfamily-run barbecue franchise offers a quality selection of signature meats, homestyle sides, tangy barbecue sauce and free kids' meals every Sunday. Thefast-casual concept has expanded to over 520 locations in 43 states. This yearDickey's Barbecue was recognized for the third year by Nation's Restaurant Newsas a “Top 10 Growth Chain” and by Technomic as the “Fastest-growing restaurantchain in the country.” For more information, please complete the form.