3/1/2023 0 Comments Bj share offline 2019![]() ![]() In the meantime, the fire official was on the line again. He hit warehouse and big-box stores, “running around trying to locate product,” he said. It was Saturday, so his regular wholesale suppliers were closed. “We got you covered,” Rathmann recalled replying. Could BJ’s Barbecue provide 350 individually packaged dinners that evening? There was a problem with the national caterer feeding crews fighting the Tamarack Fire south of Minden-Gardnerville. Rathmann got the telephone call early on a Saturday morning in mid-July. ![]() ![]() “Without the public, we don’t have a restaurant.” Thousands of meals almost no sleep “It’s our way of giving back in ways we can do,” said Jay Rathmann, the executive chef and second generation of family owners. BJ’s deployed its mobile kitchen to Food Truck Friday for the first time in 2021, with proceeds being donated to the training of culinary students.Īnd the restaurant made its Artown debut last month by volunteering to present cooking classes with Reno Recipes, a local catering and private chef outfit. The restaurant, although long used to large catering gigs, recently marked a first when it provided thousands of meals to firefighters on short notice in July. But that first isn’t the only first being celebrated by BJ’s, which has been owned for 30 of its 35 years by the Rathmann family. ![]()
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