STUBB'S AUSTIN RESTAURANT CO., LLC

What STUBB'S AUSTIN RESTAURANT CO., LLC does

Stubb's Austin Restaurant Co., LLC operates a single-location hospitality business at 801 Red River St in downtown Austin, Texas, combining a full-service Texas barbecue restaurant with the Waller Creek Amphitheater, a standing-room-only outdoor live music venue. The brand traces to Christopher B. Stubblefield, who opened the original Stubb's Legendary Bar-B-Q in Lubbock, Texas in 1968 and built a 1970s-era music venue that hosted artists including Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Stevie Ray Vaughan; the Lubbock location later closed and the concept continues in Austin. The current operation runs a hickory-pit barbecue restaurant (Sunday–Wednesday 11am–9pm; Thursday–Saturday 11am–10pm), an outdoor concert amphitheater with curfews ranging from 10:30pm to 1:00am, a weekly Sunday Gospel Brunch, and four additional private event spaces (Liberty Lunch, Downstairs Bar, Upstairs Patio, Upstairs Bar) totaling roughly 5,200+ sq ft of bookable capacity.

The business generates revenue across four streams: in-restaurant and to-go barbecue sales, concert and event ticket sales routed exclusively through Ticketmaster, private event bookings and catering under the direction of an in-house Catering/Special Events Director, and branded merchandise sold via a Shopify storefront. Music programming and talent booking are outsourced to C3 Presents (a prominent Austin-based talent buyer/producer), and ticketing is entirely outsourced to Ticketmaster — the venue does not operate its own box office. Marketing is conducted through the company's own website, Instagram, Facebook, and X, with Ticketmaster serving as the bottom-of-funnel conversion channel. Customer segments are concentrated in three personas: live music and entertainment seekers, barbecue diners seeking an authentic Austin setting, and a secondary segment of corporate and private event organizers. The entity is a privately held Texas LLC with no disclosed parent company, no institutional investors, no funding rounds, and no app or technology platform layer.

Name

STUBB'S AUSTIN RESTAURANT CO., LLC

Legal name

STUBB'S AUSTIN RESTAURANT CO., LLC

Website

https://stubbsaustin.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stubb's Austin Restaurant Co., LLC operates a historic Texas barbecue restaurant and live music venue at 801 Red River St in downtown Austin, serving concert-goers, diners, private event clients, and merchandise buyers through a single integrated hospitality location.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant and Live Music Venue

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224), Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Live Music Venues & Concert Bars (THAFAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Live Music Bars & Venues (CRANACAH)

Keywords

• Texas barbecue restaurant
• Live music venue
• Private event catering
• Concert amphitheater
• Branded merchandise

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Sales: In-restaurant and take-out barbecue food sales. Restaurant hours: Sunday - Wednesday 11am - 9pm, Thursday - Saturday 11am - 10pm.
2. Concert/Venue Tickets: Ticket sales for live music events at the Waller Creek Amphitheater, sold through Ticketmaster.
3. Private Events and Catering: Catering services and private event bookings for multiple venue spaces including the Waller Creek Amphitheater, Liberty Lunch, Downstairs Bar, Upstairs Patio, and Upstairs Bar.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stubb's Austin Restaurant Co., LLC operates a Texas-style barbecue restaurant combined with a live music venue (Waller Creek Amphitheater) at 801 Red River Street in Austin. The business sells dine-in barbecue meals and bar service, hosts ticketed concerts, rents private event spaces (Liberty Lunch, Downstairs Bar, Upstairs Patio, Upstairs Bar), offers catering and event services, and sells branded merchandise through its online store.

Product overview

Stubb's Austin is a historic barbecue restaurant and live music venue located at 801 Red River St in downtown Austin. The business operates as a unified hospitality offering centered on Stubb's Legendary Bar-B-Q (the core restaurant product) combined with a major live music venue (Waller Creek Amphitheater) hosting touring acts and local musicians. Supporting services include Gospel Brunch (Sunday gospel music brunch), Private Events & Catering across five distinct event spaces (Waller Creek Amphitheater, Liberty Lunch, Downstairs Bar, Upstairs Patio, and Upstairs Bar), and an e-commerce merchandise shop via Shopify. The venue is a standing-room-only outdoor amphitheater with a hard curfew schedule, and partners with C3 Presents for booking and Ticketmaster for ticketing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stubb's Bar-B-Q Restaurant

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TicketmastercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTicketmaster serves as the primary ticketing platform for Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater events. All concert tickets are sold through Ticketmaster. The venue does not have a box office for ticket sales.
• C3 PresentscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerC3 Presents handles music booking for Stubb's venue. Lizzie Dragon is listed as the booking contact. C3 Presents is a prominent talent booking and event production company.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Gruene Hall: Iconic Texas dance hall and live-music venue in Gruene, TX, combining bar service, food, and concert programming. Comparable as a heritage Texas live-music + bar venue, though it sits outside Austin proper.
• The Saxon Pub: Long-standing Austin live-music bar in South Austin with nightly ticketed acts and a full bar. Comparable as a combined live-music venue and bar operating under independent ownership.
• The Continental Club: Long-running Austin live-music bar on South Congress featuring nightly acts. Direct peer in the Austin live-music-and-bar category, though smaller in capacity than Stubb's amphitheater.
• The Backyard at Sage Hotel: Long-running Austin outdoor live-music venue with bar service, directly comparable to Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater format (outdoor amphitheater + bar). It competes for the same warm-weather Austin concert calendar.
• Floore's Country Store: Historic Helotes, Texas dance hall combining country music performances with a full bar and barbecue/food service — a strong functional analog to Stubb's combination of live music, food, and bar.
• Antone's Nightclub: Historic Austin live-music nightclub and bar on East 5th Street. Like Stubb's, Antone's combines a standing-room concert venue with bar service and has deep blues/roots music heritage, making it a direct format peer.
• ACL Live at the Moody Center: Austin's flagship indoor live-music venue operated by C3 Presents. Operates in the same downtown Austin live-music corridor as Stubb's and competes for the same touring acts and audiences, though it offers a larger seated indoor format versus Stubb's outdoor standing-room amphitheater.
• Emo's Austin: Mid-size live-music venue also located on Red River Street in Austin with general-admission standing-room shows. Direct competitor for touring indie, rock, and emerging acts booking through Austin promoters.

Broad incumbents

• House of Blues Entertainment: National chain of live-music venues owned by Live Nation that combine concert programming with Southern-inspired food and bar service. A scaled incumbent analog to Stubb's music-venue-plus-restaurant concept.

Regional players

• Franklin Barbecue: Austin's most famous barbecue restaurant on East 11th Street. Comparable to Stubb's on the barbecue and Austin food-culture dimension, though it does not operate a live-music venue, making it a partial same-market peer rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/stubbsaustin
• Facebookfacebook.com/StubbsAustin
• Instagraminstagram.com/stubbsaustin
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stubb's-austin-restaurant-co.-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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