If you run a BBQ restaurant, catering business, or if you are on a competition team and you are interested in learning more about the business to possibly start your own company, then this is the place to be. This is the single greatest opportunity of the year meet and learn from the best in the industry. It is a 4 day event that includes; restaurant tours to meet the owners & pitmasters and learn their secrets of success, continuing education classes on a wide variety of small business topics lead by industry leaders, cooking seminars, and you’ll feast of some of the best BBQ in the world. And that is just day 1.

The National Barbecue & Grilling Association (NBBQA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association founded in January 1991 and incorporated in the State of North Carolina in 1993. The organization was created to address the needs of the broad, diverse and growing barbecue industry.