Downtown diners who line up for the ultimate in portable lunch when the taco truck pulls in behind the Flint RiverQuarium on Thursdays now have a daily option for a convenient meal.

Patrons were already queuing up at the corner of West Broad Avenue and North Jackson Street Monday 20 minutes after a concession trailer from Billy Boy's Wings & Bar-B-Que settled in at its now semi-permanent location.

"We'll be here Mondays through Fridays from 11 (a.m.) to 5 (p.m.), and on weekends and club nights we'll be here 'til around 4 in the morning," Billy Boy's manager Xavier Morris said as he prepared an order of wings Monday just after noon. "It's always been one of my goals to have a restaurant downtown, and this is the start."

The original Billy Boy's opened at 2317 E. Broad Ave. a year ago, and restaurant owner Dee Cosby, Morris' sister, said the portable restaurant is part of the family-owned establishment's business plan.

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