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Deacon Blues BBQ owners set for return of Georgia Southern students

Deacon Blues BBQ owners Karen O'Neal and Arthur Barefoot are new to the restaurant business, but have decades of other business experience – she in health care administration, he in Dish TV.

Deacon Blues BBQ — Deacon Blues BBQ owners Karen O'Neal and Arthur Barefoot are new to the restaurant business, but have decades of other business experience – she in health care administration, he in Dish TV.

Deacon Blues BBQ owners Arthur Barefoot and Karen O’Neal opened the place June 12 and so had a couple of months to bring it up to speed before their near neighbor Georgia Southern University welcomes thousands of hungry students for fall semester.

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