DARDEN COOKS UP BARBECUE: Barbecue and billiards will be featured at a sports-bar style restaurant to open soon in east Orlando. It’s a concept called Smokey Bones BBQ, and owner Darden Restaurants Inc. hopes to expand it nationwide.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Barbeque Integrated Inc. is an American casual dining restaurant chain . Smokey Bones is headquartered in Aventura, Florida . as of august 2015, the chain has 66 restaurants in 16 eastern states the chain was sold to Barbeque Integrated Inc. in December 2007 for approximately $80 million . on august 4, 2015, Ryan Esko was named CEO of Smokey Bones.