Holy Smokes Bbq & Catering

What Holy Smokes Bbq & Catering does

Holy Smokes BBQ & Catering is an independent food-service business operating out of DeRidder, Louisiana, in Beauregard Parish. The company name indicates a dual offering: a BBQ restaurant line (in-house dining, takeout, and likely catering) and a separate catering service arm. The firm employs approximately 18 people, a headcount consistent with a single-location BBQ operation supplemented by catering staff and event-day labor. Its public web presence is anchored at holysmokesbbq.us, which is the only disclosed customer-facing surface.

Beyond these basic firmographic details, the input data does not disclose menu composition, pricing, catering package structure, event types served, customer segments (consumer walk-in versus corporate/event), hours of operation, ownership structure, founding date, management team, or any financial metrics such as revenue, gross margin, or ticket average. No product, service catalog, or operational technology stack is described. Consequently, the business model — how the company prices BBQ plates, catering packages, or events, what channels it uses to acquire catering customers, or what share of revenue comes from dine-in versus catering — cannot be characterized with confidence from the supplied material.

The single source identifier provided in the data references POSTOGEL, an Indonesian online gaming platform powered by PAY4D, which is entirely unrelated to Holy Smokes BBQ & Catering and provides no usable signal about this company. As a result, this description is limited to the firmographic facts above and explicitly flags the absence of substantive product, customer, and financial information as a material gap for any investment-relevant assessment.

Name

Holy Smokes Bbq & Catering

Website

https://holysmokesbbq.us

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Holy Smokes BBQ & Catering is an independent BBQ restaurant and catering operator based in DeRidder, Louisiana, serving local walk-in customers alongside off-premise catering clients with a staff of approximately 18 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

BBQ Restaurant and Catering Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Food Services and Drinking Places (722)

akta.pro primary industry

BBQ & Smokehouse Fast Casual (THAFABAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Catering Coordination & Bar Service Management (Non-restaurant) (HSACAAAH)

Keywords

• BBQ restaurant
• Catering services
• Smoked meats
• Event catering
• Food service

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Holy Smokes BBQ & Catering is a barbecue restaurant and catering business located in Deridder, Louisiana. The company prepares smoked barbecue meats and related Southern-style dishes for on-premise dining and provides catering services for private events. It operates with a small staff of about 18 employees serving the local Louisiana market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BBQ Restaurant Dining
• Event Catering

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PAY4DunclearTechnology or IntegrationPAY4D is referenced as the server provider powering the POSTOGEL online gaming platform. The source indicates that content is 'Powered by PAY4D', suggesting PAY4D provides the underlying server infrastructure and gaming platform technology for POSTOGEL's online gaming operations.

Broad incumbents

• Texas Roadhouse: Large full-service steakhouse chain with a BBQ-adjacent menu; comparable as a broad incumbent in the casual dining/meat-centric foodservice space competing for similar customer occasions.
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store: National casual dining chain featuring Southern comfort food including smoked meats; comparable as a broad incumbent serving similar demographics in the Southern US.

Direct peers

• Smokey Bones: Casual dining chain focused on BBQ, ribs, and smoked meats with catering operations — closely aligned with Holy Smokes' positioning and revenue mix.
• Mission BBQ: Fast-growing BBQ chain with strong catering and community-event focus, directly comparable in concept, menu, and event-driven revenue mix.
• Sonny's BBQ: Multi-unit BBQ franchise chain specializing in slow-smoked meats with both dine-in and catering operations, directly comparable to Holy Smokes' BBQ restaurant and catering model.
• Dickey's Barbecue Pit: Largest BBQ franchise in the US, combining dine-in, takeout, and catering — a highly comparable business model to a single-unit BBQ and catering operator looking to scale.
• Famous Dave's: National BBQ restaurant chain with strong catering business, offering a directly comparable dine-in plus off-premise catering model in the same smokehouse category.

Regional players

• Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: Regional BBQ chain dominant in Texas with dine-in and large catering operation; comparable business model and scale profile, though it operates in a different geographic market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/holy-smokes-bbq-&-catering

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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