Rib Crib is a table-service restaurant chain which specializes in barbecue and smoked meats, notable for their spare ribs, pork spare, and baby back ribs, and their bold, mild and hot sauces. All locations share a common theme of rustic lodge-like surroundings: "Western whimsical," as its founder Bret Chandler called it. The first Rib Crib opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1992, using a hickory-wood-burning smoker within an old house. Now, each location features a hickory-wood-burning rotisserie smoker that is gas powered.