Bucky Bee’s readies Glasgow location

By Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow News 1
Bucky Bee’s BBQ is planning to expand its Glasgow customer base beyond the occasional food truck visits as it aims to take over the former Sidelines location.
Sheila Buckingham, who co-owns the Cave City restaurant with her husband De’Lynn Buckingham, said this week that the target opening date is Jan. 2, almost exactly seven years since they opened the current spot.
“We have been over there kind of getting stuff cleaned and everything like that, and we’re just going through the building to make sure what’s working and what’s not and just to see what all we have to do over there,” she said via telephone.
They’ve served from the food truck there a few times to get the name associated with the place already.
“We’ll offer everything that the Cave City location has. There’s a couple of new things we’re gonna try over there and see how it works out,” Buckingham said. “We will have the Hornet’s Nest over there, which is the nachos that we do on the food truck. We don’t even do those here in (Cave City). And there’s a couple of new side items that we’ve been talking about maybe trying. They’re not set in stone yet, so we’ll just keep that up in the air. We’re not sure if we’re going to actually be able to do those or not, but we’re just looking at different options.”
They were still finalizing the lease this week, pending the inventory of any problems, but “it’s ours,” she said.
They first spoke with the owner of Ford Centre around the first part of October, a few weeks after Sidelines suddenly closed. They had considered a few places – even other cities – for their second location, she said. They take the food truck to the nursing home in Horse Cave once a month, so that town was one option, and they had looked at building in Bowling Green, too, as well as scouting around Glasgow.
The Ford Centre owner said they’d love to have them there at 205 L. Rogers Wells Blvd.
The restaurant employs about 20 people in Cave City, and she anticipates it would be at least that many in Glasgow. Some people have already been going to their existing location to apply.
The couple’s son Ransom Buckingham, who manages the Cave City restaurant now, will be overseeing the Glasgow operation, and someone will be hired internally to take over at the original place, she said.