It was strategic to a point and maybe not a broadly encompassed strategy, but from a liability standpoint, we knew we needed to start up under an LLC. It's a food business, you have a lot of liability.
Listen 🎧 : Jamie says this was critical in managing taxes for Crimson Creek BBQ.
is an Austin-based, barbecue joint co-owned by husband and wife duo Marcus McNac and Jamie Dickens. Marcus is a long-time pitmaster. While Jamie tackles the business side of the barbecue joint, Marcus tends to the grill. After opening their doors in 2020, the duo has navigated growing their business while staying on top of everything from sales to payroll taxes.
Marcus has been cooking since he was a child, growing into a barbecue hobbyist and eventually a competition cooker. The duo had hosted pop-ups and barbecues casually in the Austin area until the pandemic hit. They took the opportunity to get the wheels in motion on their barbecue business, finding a location and a trailer, setting up a pit, and getting the business side of things up and running.
Jamie says she quickly evolved the system from a series of crumpled paper receipts to the more structured approach they have for taxes today. First, they started taking payments with Square. After that, they started looking into tools available within the platform to decide which tasks they could manage in-house. Soon the duo began working with a bookkeeper and CPA. Today they leverage their web of resources as they face increasingly complex tax issues as the business scales quickly. In the future, Dickens says they'll likely add on payroll software to help support this growth.
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