MISSION BBQ — Panama City

This Panama City outpost sits on East 23rd Street, part of a fast-casual chain built around smoked meat and a salute. The brand runs on a straightforward premise: order at the counter, carry your tray to a table, and eat barbecue surrounded by flags and tributes to first responders. It's unapologetically themed, and the queue moves accordingly.

Open daily — eleven to nine most nights, half-past eleven on Sundays. The menu is the menu: ribs, brisket, pulled pork, the standards. No flourishes, no regional detours. Just the format, executed at scale, in a town off the Gulf.