When Dickey’s Barbecue Pit shuttered more than 80 restaurants in what it described as an industrywide “wave of contraction” in 2024, the Treasure Valley suffered a direct hit. Four struggling Dickey’s went dark — in Eagle, Nampa, Garden City and Meridian — leaving a lone location in Star.
Now Dickey’s is bouncing back.
Taking over a prominent Boise restaurant building, an experienced operator plans to reintroduce Dickey’s slow-smoked meats to the City of Trees…