07/09/2026
🔥 A QUICK UPDATE FROM US ABOUT PRICING 🔥
For a long time, we’ve done everything possible to absorb rising costs rather than passing them on to our customers. Unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where some prices need to increase so we can continue doing what we love and keep our smokers burning.
Low & slow BBQ is incredibly labour intensive. Long before your meal reaches the counter, our meats are trimmed and seasoned by hand, then smoked for hours — often throughout the day and night — while our smokers constantly need maintaining and feeding with firewood.
Something that’s easily overlooked is yield. After trimming and smoking, we generally only have around 60% of the original meat weight left to sell. When we purchase 10kg of meat, we certainly don’t have 10kg left to serve.
BBQ also comes with expenses many other food businesses don’t have — huge quantities of spices, firewood, sauces and consumables. Even the commercial foil used throughout our smoking process is now over $80 a roll! Add rising meat and produce costs, electricity, gas, packaging, plus hospitality wages and penalty rates, and the margins become incredibly tight.
Sadly, we’ve watched many great BBQ restaurants close their doors because the amount of work and expense involved simply became unsustainable.
We don’t want Smokin Butts & Racks to become another one of them.
For example, our Meat Taster Box includes:
🥩 200g Brisket
🐷 100g Pulled Pork
🍗 100g Smoked Chicken
🌭 120g Kransky
🍟 Fries & Slaw
🥖 Dinner Roll & Butter
🥫 Sauce
Previously $45, this will now be $55.
That’s over half a kilo of smoked meats alone, before the sides and extras. Compare our portions and pricing with other established BBQ businesses and you’ll see we’re still doing everything we can to offer genuine low & slow BBQ at reasonable prices.
We could reduce portions, compromise on quality or take shortcuts.
We’d rather keep doing BBQ properly.
We know nobody loves a price increase, but we wanted to be transparent about why it’s necessary.
To everyone who continues to support our little BBQ business — thank you. Your support keeps our staff employed, our smokers burning and allows us to keep doing what we love. 🔥❤️