Mission BBQ (almost certainly) coming to Laurel

It still isn't on the store directory, and it hasn't been easy to get confirmation from those who run the Towne Centre at Laurel website and Facebook page, but there are several reasons to believe the Mission BBQ chain will open a restaurant in Laurel this November.

For one thing, there is an official Towne Centre at Laurel banner saying Mission BBQ will be there.

The Mission BBQ website says they will have a restaurant in Laurel.

The notice in the window that its beer, wine and liquor license request will be on the agenda at an October 28 public hearing

(yes, there it is at the Prince George's County government website)

seems to imply that Laurel will have a Mission BBQ. And yet, online, there has been no official word on it. Could it be that back in June, withholding the announcement was the landlord's way of playing hardball with Mission BBQ?

Could it be they were still doing the same thing two months later?

I suppose it's possible that the final draft of the lease still hasn't been signed a month after that, so it's not yet official, but Mission BBQ seems to be conducting job interviews

right here

so you know what? I think I'll go out on a limb and say that come November, Towne Centre at Laurel will have a Mission BBQ.

Glen