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Bill Miller Bar-B-Q is a San Antonio-headquartered restaurant chain that focuses on barbecue food, accompanying side dishes (such as potato salad and coleslaw), and baked goods. The restaurant started as a poultry and egg business in 1950 from a $500 loan. Founder Bill Miller later expanded the business into a fried chicken take-out restaurant. The menu eventually incorporated hamburgers, and then shifted into a barbecue restaurant. The second restaurant opened in February 1963. From the beginning, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q was a family business. Faye Miller served as a cashier and hostess while raising their four children. The children learned how to work and were raised learning the operations of the business. They worked in the restaurant during the summers and on weekends. When Miller planned a vacation to Europe between Balous Miller's junior and senior years of college, Balous ran the restaurant business that summer and then decided to make Bill Miller Bar-B-Q his career rather than going to teaching school. Miller semi-retired upon Balous' graduation in May 1966. As his brothers, John and Douglas received their degrees, they joined him in the restaurant business. The three brothers and their brother-in-law, Louis Vance, have worked together now in excess of thirty years. 69 restaurants cover the San Antonio, Austin, and Corpus Christi markets. All foods served at the restaurants are produced in one facility in downtown San Antonio, then shipped to each location daily. ==History== William T. "Bill" Miller and Ila Faye Miller, spouses, co-founded the company in the 1950s.〔Silva, Tricia Lynn. "(Bill Miller Bar-B-Q restaurants co-founder passes away )." ''San Antonio Business Journal''. Monday August 25, 2008. Retrieved on April 3, 2010.〕 In 1992 Miller bought the Fiesta Plaza, a failed mall, and planned to donate it to the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Fiesta Plaza is now the Downtown Campus of UTSA.〔Lambeth, Laura and Jim Wood. "(FIESTA.PLAZA Bill Miller poised to buy Fiesta Plaza Family plans to donate site to UTSA )." ''San Antonio Express-News'' at ''New Britain Herald''. September 24, 1992. Page 1B. Retrieved on April 3, 2010.〕 Ila Faye died in 2008.〔 In 2009 the company reduced its employee health care costs by 40% after it ended its PPO program and formed partnerships with area health providers. Therefore, medical providers receive reimbursement on a cost-plus basis.〔"(Bill Miller Bar-B-Q cuts health costs by 40 percent )." ''San Antonio Business Journal''. Wednesday May 13, 2009. Retrieved on April 3, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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