“We will rebuild,” Aaron Franklin said early Saturday afternoon. He sounded surprisingly upbeat given the damage he had just surveyed inside the pit room at Franklin Barbecue, which caught fire Saturday morning. “We’ll probably have to completely replace the walls and the roof,” Franklin said, adding that he hoped the floor of the pit room could be salvaged. He expects to be closed for at least a month, but is looking for options to fire up the smokers elsewhere in Austin as repairs are made. Despite the intense fire, all of the steel smokers are undamaged. “The gauges are blown out,” Franklin said, joking that they didn’t really use the thermometers anyway. Only one employee was at the restaurant when the fire started. Franklin didn’t…View Original PostThe post Aaron Franklin: “We Will Rebuild” appeared first on Texas Monthly.