July 9, 2025
The 2 comedians began it as a campus kitchen at Jackson State College in partnership with Sodexo and SodexoMagic.
After collaborating on the A&E/Hulu TV actuality present Kings of BBQ, Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson have opened a restaurant in Los Angeles.
In response to Restaurant Hospitality, the 2 comedians and finest pals, minimize the ribbon on AC Barbeque, situated contained in the Westfield Century Metropolis outside mall. The restaurant’s specialty is Southern barbecue.
AC Barbeque additionally sells merchandise like sauces, rubs, grilling instruments, and different BBQ odds and ends.
“The transition was straightforward—Ced and I had the thought of growing seasonings and sauces for our BBQ way of life line, and the tv present was a byproduct of that,” Anderson stated. “It was a pure evolution. We wished to doc two pals making a nationwide firm in an area the place there wasn’t a face that appeared like ours. Beginning with rubs, sauces, meals vans, and finally eating places. We used what we’ve realized in Hollywood to propel us to success.”
In response to info on the duo’s web site, AC Barbeque began with three specialty barbecue seasonings, which led to different merchandise being bought below the model created by Cedric and Anderson, together with grilling gadgets, utensils, sauces, and clothes.
Final Spring, AC Barbeque launched its first campus kitchen at Jackson State College in partnership with Sodexo and SodexoMagic. Six further campuses have been added in fall 2024.
“The concept you need to produce it from prime to backside is similar to a TV present,” Cedric the Entertainer stated. “You’ve obtained to begin with the fundamentals, which is the meals itself, or a script for the TV, and you then’ve obtained to place collectively the suitable employees—you’ve obtained to seek out a fantastic chef and good folks to run the entrance of the restaurant so that is your forged that you just’re placing collectively and you then’ve obtained to have a premiere, open it up and convey it to the folks and allow them to determine.”
There are plans to open extra eating places at a number of areas.
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