A Dallas barbecue restaurant chain plans to cook up locations in the Kansas City market as part of a broad effort to begin franchising its restaurants.
Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse, a Dallas-based restaurant, has made the Kansas City area a target in its 2010 franchise development plan.
The restaurant chain was founded in 1958 in Dallas and now has nine locations — all corporate stores — in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It has partnered with Beautiful Brands International, a restaurant development company based in Tulsa, Okla., to help market and franchise the Sonny Bryan’s brand throughout the country.