Memphis Business Journal posted “One & Only BBQ fires up new location” featuring One & Only BBQ.
The owners of One & Only BBQ are building their first ground-up location and introducing their smoky, signature flavors to Cordova, Bartlett and the Wolfchase area.
Grinder, Taber & Grinder Inc. filed a $1.2 million building permit last week for a new One & Only BBQ at 153 Timber Creek Drive, across from Agricenter International in Cordova.
The area is pretty much untouched, said co-owner Alan Katzen, as 90 percent of One & Only’s business comes from East Memphis and Germantown.
“By positioning ourselves on the south side of the Bartlett, Cordova and the Wolfchase area, we really feel there is an opportunity to introduce our product and continue to grow,” Katzen said.
The latest location will be the company’s third. Katzen and co-owner Joel Banes bought the first One & Only location on Kirby Parkway about four-and-a-half years ago and expanded to Perkins Extended about a year later.
Katzen says the Perkins location has seen a 120 percent sales increase over the past two years, and company revenues are on track to fund the new location.
“I’ve always had a dream of opening my own restaurant from the ground up,” Katzen said.
One & Only is working with architectural design firm Tree House Design out of New York, which helped redesign the former diner on Perkins, and local engineering firm Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc.
The new location will have about 98 seats and a full drive-thru. Katzen says site plans are complete, and the company is in the bidding process.
“We hope to start construction in March and be open in September or October of 2016,” he said.