J acqueline Herrera needed a break.
But she also needed to hire a band. She needed to order merch. She needed to finalize a bartender team, to talk with sponsors, to coordinate the team schedule, to set up planning meetings, to figure out food orders.
She needed, in short, to get into the fight to compete in the World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest from Feb. 26-28. And that didn’t just mean making a pristine plate for a panel of judges. She also had to construct a mini popup restaurant — complete with bar, stage and kitchen — in a tent, in a parking lot…