HOMEGROWN HEROES HH a coach, so he’s seen that giving attitude firsthand. Among the things Cash does to help come naturally to a restaurant owner. He feeds people at the games. Trails End BBQ also does catering work for the school during Friday night football games.
special, the ribs and Trails End’s special steak nights, which they do every few months and are announced only on their Facebook page. They also make a fresh tabouli that customers enjoy, as well as a mean homemade bread pudding with rum sauce.
For Thanksgiving, Cash and Trails End BBQ prepare Thanksgiving meals for selected needy families in the area, in conjunction with Owasso Community Resources. “They’ll get a turkey, potatoes, vegetables, rolls, cranberry sauce,” he says. “Volunteers come in, pick it up and deliver it. We’ve done that now for 16 or 17 years. The neatest Cash’s interest in cooking started thing about it is, employees come at a young age, just like his giving. in and work that day for free.” “My father used to barbecue,” he says. “We would have ribs on Trails End BBQ also does a Thanksgiving. Mom was a great lot of catering. “We do a lot of cook. If company came over, she weddings,” Cash says. They can could have five or six vegetables, cater for small groups of 30 to 40 potatoes and gravy, and some people, all the way up to 300 and kind of meat pretty quick. All 400. And he has even delivered my friends loved to come to the catered food to places as far away house and eat mom’s cooking.” as Wisconsin, 12 hours away. Serving good barbecue through his restaurant is another way that Cash connects to the Owasso community. Many of Trails End’s regulars have been coming to the restaurant for years, some since it first opened, and many of them eat there multiple times each week.
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Among the customers’ favorite items are the Friday night catfish
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At the restaurant itself, Cash and his staff work hard to serve tasty meals that the people of Owasso can count on. They smoke their meat by the indirect heat method, which means that most of what they serve has been smoking several hours overnight before it is served.
Whether he is serving good food or giving to local organizations in need, Cash sees it all as a way to improve the place he lives. “It just makes it a better place for me to live down the road, and a better place for my kids,” he says. “It’s kind of a selfish idea, wanting it to be better for myself. But if you don’t participate in that, you have no reason to gripe at somebody else.”
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With that kind of family training, it’s little surprise that Cash himself began to cook too. He started cooking meat while he was still working full time at UPS. A friend encouraged him to participate in barbecue competitions, and for a while, Cash did that, winning awards at competitions in Arkansas, Stillwater and Claremore, among other places.
Monday-Friday: 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 4-8 p.m. Saturday: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 4-8 p.m. Sunday: Closed
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