Kudos RJ's: 'Real Texas Barbecue', Texas Monthly & San Angelo Chamber Diversity Recognition.

'Real Texas barbecue'
By ERIN QUINN, equinn@sastandardtimes.com or 659-8260
December 19, 2005

It's about 11:20 a.m., and the lunch crowd at RJ Restaurant & Catering is in full swing.
Owners Charles and JoAnna Thomas are bustling from the kitchen to the counter, squeezing past each other through narrow walkways and juggling the drive-through window, ringing phones and hungry customers at the counter. That's not to mention the Christmas parties for which they are making food.
''Take it easy, girl,'' one customer tells JoAnna. ''You're getting swamped.''
She laughs and keeps moving.
The 10-table eatery on North Bryant Boulevard is swamped. But the Thomases like it that way. Their work has paid off in the form of local and state culinary awards, and recognition from Texas Monthly magazine.
Last month, the Thomases received the Diversity Recognition Award from the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce at the 7th Annual ''Celebration of Our Diversity'' Awards Luncheon.

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