169: Aaron Siegel, Home Team BBQ (Charleston, SC)

If you’ve been out and about in Charleston,SC, then most likely you’re familiar with Home Team BBQ. But since it’s a place with multiple locations (including outside the state), those spots are  almost always busy, and they probably have your game on the TV and your favorite beer or spirit in the glass, it’s easy to bypass the idea behind it all. And the idea was simple. Chef Aaron Siegel trained at the Culinary Institute of America then cooked in fine dining kitchens for many years, and he wanted to apply his culinary training to comfort food and barbecue. And what happened was a Gamechanger, and I’m not just talking about that Home Team frozen drink. Aaron himself had to learn to build a business beyond just the food.