When you think good barbeque, most people think Kansas City, Memphis, or the Carolinas. But if you are looking for authentic, fresh, good old barbeque, you don’t have to travel far. Located in downtown Cascade, Iowa, lies the well-known secret of Moski’s, a small town barbeque joint creating a big impact.
Brice Morris didn’t initially set out to be in the barbeque business, running a brick and mortar restaurant, a food truck, and food trailer. Brice worked as a teacher for twelve years, followed by eleven years working with Pheasants Forever. Barbeque was just something he did as a hobby, until friends and family started asking him to cater their events, and he began in the barbeque competition circuit. When these ventures started becoming more than just something fun to do in his spare time, he realized he needed to get his ducks in a row and began building Moski’s first food trailer.
This food trailer became the catalyst for Moski’s, especially at a time when others in the retaurant industry were suffering. During COVID when other returants had to close their doors, Morris was able to take the Moski’s Food Trailer around to dfferent communities, where people wanted to get out of the house and could wait in line outside to enjoy his delicious smoked barbeque. It wasn’t unusual for the trailer to pull into a town and serve two hundred people in two hours.
With the success of his food trailer, Brice built a successful customer base, including a long time customer who began “hounding” him to open a brick and mortar restaurant in his Cascade building. When presented with this opportunity, Brice and his wife Shawna saw this as a way to give Shawna a change from her job in nursing, and the the restaurant was started. After just a few weeks of Shawna doing barbeque full time and Brice still traveling for his job, their instant success made it apparent that if this was going to be a business, they had to go all in, so Brice left his job as Pheasant’s Forever.
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