Rituals

America’s Most Patriotic Barbecue Joint Plays the National Anthem Every Day at Noon

Photo: Tom Le Goff

“We call it the best two minutes of the day,” says Steve Lippert, a manager at the Virginia Beach location of Mission BBQ, a military-themed barbecue chain that first opened on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and has spent the last year aggressively expanding. According to a Washington Post article from earlier this year, the chain aims to have 40 locations open by 2018.

[Virginian-Pilot]

Patriotic BBQ Joint Plays the National Anthem Every Day