It is one of the most competitive restaurant markets and we have one of the most competitive concepts.

I also believe in it as a restaurant market. The most obvious is because of my ties here, living most of my adult life in Dallas. Why are you setting up in the Dallas area now after opening fifty other restaurants? When they asked me to take over I had to make the decision to move. I do, but I lived here for about thirty years. Just over two and a half years ago the board asked me to take over the CEO position. Many years later as they expanded they called on me to serve on their board. My association started years ago when the founders started their first restaurant in 1971. How did you personally get involved with the restaurant? They got to talking about it and came up with this name and it has been a great association outside the occasional time when someone pulls up honking their horn wanting an oil change. They came up with the catchy name Quaker Steak and Lube partially because many of the first customers were execs from Quaker State. This concept started in 1974 when the original owners found an abandoned gas station and turned it into a restaurant. Stay with us to the end where we give away several beefy gift cards. We sat with Longstreet for a few minutes to find out more about this new addition to the North Texas dining scene. Now the big attraction is the Tuesday night special which offers an all-you-can-eat rib and wing option for under $14. In fact, when the restaurant first opened their doors it was as a cook-your-own-steak theme. In addition to wings, Quaker Steak and Lube also offers up some fairly remarkable baby back ribs, salads, sandwiches and steaks. That ventures well past the Scotch Bonnet and Habanero territory, and can be quite maddening on the palate. The chicken wings recently became famous when Travel Channel’s Man vs Food host Adam Richman tackled the Triple Atomic challenge by devouring wings sauced with a searing 500,000 Scoville rated madness. There were sampled most of what the restaurant had to offer and had a chance to visit with the CEO, John H. Last night we were invited to check out the latest edition of Quaker Steak and Lube, the casual dining chain hailing from Pennsylvania that is best known for their mountains of chicken wings and sauce choices.

Quaker steak and lube wing challenge