Google Says This BBQ Joint Closed. But You’ll Still Find It Serving a $19 Three-Meat Plate.

Daquinton Stuart drives past a reminder of the failed expansion of his barbecue joint every day. The sign for DQ’s still hangs above the empty building on Live Oak Street in Marlin, nearly thirty miles southeast of Waco. Stuart operated his restaurant there for two years, but after closing last year, he parked a food trailer with the same name a few blocks west. It’s bright red, just like the one he started his business with in 2021. He sold that first mobile rig when he opened the permanent location, but in hindsight, he said, “I think I should have stayed in the trailer.”The new location is an empty lot where an old retail building went up in flames a few years ago. Stuart, who…

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