Like many barbecue entrepreneurs before them, Nolan and Emily Belcher opened a food truck and felt compelled to close it months later. But they put the brakes on their business, B4 Barbeque & Boba in Mabank, an hour southeast of Dallas, because it was too successful. The whole point of opening the food truck was to get Nolan off the road. He was gone from their Fort Worth home driving a big rig all week, seeing his wife, Emily, and their two kids only on the weekends. Emily’s idea for a life change came after she found a house with ten acres in Mabank. They moved, and Nolan quit his job and pursued his barbecue passion with the food truck starting last November. It was…
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