tiny portions, sorry sauce, very corporate bbq. let's face it - bbq in texas is something of a religion, and everyone has their own denomination - a preference of sauce flavor, portions, and more. and a lot of the texas bbq is done best by the non-corporate-chains... like angelo's in fort worth or dripping springs bbq (in dripping springs, on the road to fredericksburg). i find it interesting that other corporate bbq actually exists in texas - for example the one with the neon pigs playing guitars and their brown-sugar-soaked sauce, which is not texas bbq. but i digress.
personally, dickey's is okay in a pinch, or for catering at a corporate picnic. but compared to other texas based chains - like colters - dickeys falls short. the portions are tiny compared to most other bbq places. the sauce seems like something generic out of a bottle - no particular zip (compared to other places, chains or non-corporate). call it a matter of taste. i know there are many who prefer dickeys over other places for taste, but i feel in the chain bbq arena, colters comes out far ahead, in flavor, portions, just about everything. again, it's just a matter of personal taste, and dickeys is just barely "texas" bbq with generic flavor and small portions, high price. guess it beats mcribs in a pinch, but i would rather go a couple extra miles to a colters or angelo's for the real deal.