dBoy99 said:

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Mediocre BBQ at best...

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Haven't been in years, but used to stop on occasion on drives from Lake Jackson to Aggieland when I was at A&M.

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I want to make a statement about Dozier's and how it came to this final week. Six years ago Scott & Smedley put Dozier's on the market to sell the property and the business. I put together a partnership to purchase both and while doing so the land was sold out from under us to a local downtown land owner. So we waited until that deal closed and we proceeded to work out a lease with the new landowner which contained a development clause due to the uncertainty of the local development timeline. The idea was that we were going to relocate the store to a location based on future development trends.

The remodel of the store had to do with the Ft. Bend County building code rules to bring everything up to code because of a change in ownership. My partners spent a lot of money to do this. The building was built in 1968 and was way behind on code. My goal was to bring the food back to where Ed Dozier had it. Scott & Smed made some changes that changed the original Dozier's process.

While doing so, my partners which had no experience in the food business insisted that I bring in a choice of sauces and change all of the sides along with other changes that I resisted. At this time Dozier's never had a certified kitchen. We were not able to legally "Cook" anything but meat. And there were many more changes that drifted the "New" Dozier's away from Ed's Dozier's.

Enough is Enough and I departed Dozier's with little fanfare and hoped for the best. In the meantime the partnership hired a Katy local with a good background in BBQ. His version was so much different that it completely changed Dozier's forever. Sometimes his food was good and there were other times it was not. He was very adamant about the way he sliced his meat in chunks even if the customer asked for thin slices. They lost the Dozier's faithful and gained a few others.

At this point Dozier's lost the BBQ community and the BBQ journalist never really paid much attention. This week is a sad week for the Fulshear Community where change is inevitable and the past will never be fully restored. I have had numerous phone calls and text messages that I need to get involved and do my thing. However, this is also my last week in the restaurant business as I am retiring while I am still healthy.

Keep the Dozier family in your prayers as I know this is a hard week for them too! BTW, I am no longer involved with Dozier's and am closing another business to retire.

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malenurse said:

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Of course. I graduated from Lamar in '76. We usually went to Larry's though.

Now I go to Tejas Grill in Richmond, Near Oak Bend Hospital

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