With Bikes, Blues and BBQ coming up this weekend I wondered how local restaurants felt about the festival. Initially I thought that most business owners would be thrilled with the influx of people in Fayetteville, but upon further review I was a bit surprised. Doe’s Eat Place is one of the most famous steak joints in Fayetteville and is known across Arkansas. The menu at Doe’s doesn’t have much variety, there is steak, tamales, a few side items and beer. I spoke with a member of the Doe’s kitchen staff, Seth Jackson. Jackson said, “The festival just brings the wrong kind of customer to Dickson Street. We will have plenty of people that sit down and have a tamale and a beer, but no one is going to sit down for dinner when they can get a six dollar turkey leg on the street corner.” Jackson also mentioned that since the street is so crowded that people that would normally come in for dinner avoid the area. As I took in the rest of the Dickson scene that afternoon I noticed that other restaurants planned on closing their doors for BBBQ. So it appears that my initial hypothesis was wrong. The Street itself is packed with people, but other than the crowd that sits down for a beer, restaurants’ clientelle seem to avoid the area and as Jackson mentioned the people there are “the wrong kind of customer.”
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