Peco’s Pit Bar-B-Que, one of Seattle’s oldest and most beloved barbecue joints, is expanding southward. This week it announced that it was opening a brand new location in Kent, complete with a drive-through, part of a larger plan to spread its brand.
Peco’s Pit has been around seemingly forever. Its first location, in SoDo, opened in 1980, and it acquired a reputation as one of the best barbecue places in a city more known for smoked salmon than smoked meat. In 2011, Red Robin founder Gerry Kingen acquired the rights to franchise Peco’s, and planned an aggressive expansion strategy that included the opening of dozens of new locations.
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