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In case you missed it, Diners, Drive-ins & Dives featured four of the non-iconic KC barbecue joints this past Monday.  The first place featured was Smokin’ Guns in North Kansas City, which is probably the barbecue place I frequent second most in the metro.

Smokin’ Guns is only open 11-6 Mon-Fri, so it’s generally never not busy at lunch.  If you get there past 11:30, your chances of actually having a place to sit are risky.  We got there around 11:10 and the line was healthy.  Once in the door, I caught glimpse of a guy in a bright orange polo taking pictures of the menu board with his iPhone.  He had this stupid grin on his face like a kid gets the first time they go to a theme park.

The counter had a little board with pictures of Guy Fieri’s visit.  Apparently the show told them they could expect about a 40% bump in business.  They said it has been more like a 250% spike, which just seems insane.  Sure enough, staff were walking the floor, kicking people out of tables they were trying to squat on.  Once we finished, someone swooped in for our baskets and we made a quick exit.  Naturally, the orange shirt guy was sitting by himself at a four-seater doing some balancing of his check book.  It’s like some people don’t even have to try to be complete d-bags.