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Famous Dave's

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Chain of barbecue restaurants primarily located in the Midwestern US

Famous Dave's of America, Inc. is a chain of barbecue restaurants primarily located in the Midwestern United States, serving pork ribs, chicken, beef brisket, and several flavors of barbecue sauce. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe-Choctaw who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the first Famous Dave's restaurant near Hayward, Wisconsin in 1994. The restaurant chain grew throughout the United States and Puerto Rico in 2014, though all of Famous Dave's Puerto Rico locations closed after Hurricane Maria.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Famous Dave's of America, Inc. is a chain of barbecue restaurants primarily located in the Midwestern United States, serving pork ribs, chicken, beef brisket, and several flavors of barbecue sauce. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe-Choctaw who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the first Famous Dave's restaurant near Hayward, Wisconsin in 1994. The restaurant chain grew throughout the United States and Puerto Rico in 2014, though all of Famous Dave's Puerto Rico locations closed after Hurricane Maria. It has 111 locations in 30 U.S. states as of 2026 and four international locations, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, and Winnipeg.2

The story

The first restaurant of the chain was Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que in Hayward, Wisconsin. On the morning of November 3, 2014, it was destroyed by fire. The second location opened in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1995 and was designed to be an old-fashioned "roadside BBQ Shack". It closed in 2014. The third location opened in 1996 in the Calhoun Square development in Uptown Minneapolis and was designed as a Blues club, Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues. It closed in 2019. A "Lodge" format opened in Minnetonka, Minnesota and the first franchise-operated restaurant opened in Burnsville, Minnesota.

Jeff Crivello became CEO at Famous Dave's in 2017. The company rebranded as BBQ Holdings and, in 2020, began buying up other brands. The company sold to MTY Food Group in 2022. Crivello left BBQ Holdings in May 2023.

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Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded in Hayward1

Held by these funds

The largest holders among investment managers' 13F reports for the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026, the top 25 of 100. Change is in shares since the quarter before.

FundSharesValueShare of the fundChange
BlackRock, Inc.1,667,948$621.5M0.0%+839,351
Hood River Capital Management LLC1,104,277$411.4M3.0%−41,624
Divisadero Street Capital Management, LP699,366$260.6M6.1%+58,526
Fmr LLC479,746$178.7M0.0%+248,711
Vanguard Capital Management LLC474,139$176.7M0.0%−29,389
State Street Corp406,752$151.6M0.0%+172,964
Renaissance Technologies LLC367,378$136.9M0.2%−64,422
Geode Capital Management, LLC341,843$127.4M0.0%+15,503
Driehaus Capital Management LLC331,537$123.5M0.7%+269,203
Jane Street Group, LLC312,197$116.3M0.1%+123,480
Invesco Ltd.296,156$110.3M0.0%+182,281
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP255,679$95.3M0.0%+2,506
Goldman Sachs Group Inc239,466$89.2M0.0%+90,983
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC234,648$87.4M0.0%+100,155
American Century Companies Inc227,827$84.9M0.0%+29,199
Whetstone Capital Advisors, LLC223,078$83.1M22.0%−1,077
Wellington Management Group Llp212,175$79.1M0.0%−13,867
Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc.205,552$76.6M0.2%+3,539
Findell Capital Management LLC145,000$54.0M8.9%−25,000
Franklin Resources Inc140,231$52.2M0.0%+3,435
Jpmorgan Chase & Co136,922$51.1M0.0%+122,347
Northern Trust Corp135,893$50.6M0.0%+13,307
Voya Investment Management LLC116,967$43.6M0.0%−76,873
Empowered Funds, LLC105,686$39.4M0.2%New
Portolan Capital Management, LLC105,338$39.2M1.5%−104

13F reports cover disclosed long positions in U.S. stocks only.

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