This is a list of notable chicken restaurants. This list includes casual dining, fast casual and

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restaurants which typically specialize in

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dishes such as

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, chicken and waffles,

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es or chicken and biscuits.

Chicken restaurants

* 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken *

Albaik Albaik ( ar, البيك, and stylized in all caps) is a Saudi fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Jeddah, Hejaz that primarily sells broasted and fried chicken with a variety of sauces. It is Saudi Arabia's largest restaurant chain. Albai ...

Anchor Bar The Anchor Bar is a bar and restaurant in Buffalo, New York, located north of Downtown Buffalo at the intersection of Main and North Streets.

Baes Fried Chicken Baes Fried Chicken, or Baes Chicken, is a fried chicken restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon. Description Baes Fried Chicken is a fried chicken restaurant with two locations Portland's Old Town Chinatown and Sellwood-Moreland, Po ...

, Portland, Oregon, USA * Bonchon Chicken * Buffalo Wild Wings *

Buffalo Wings and Rings Wings & Rings is a Cincinnati-based sports restaurant franchise. It offers a menu of Buffalo wings, burgers, salads, and sandwiches. History Founded in Cincinnati in 1984, Wings & Rings was purchased in 2005 by a management team led by Philip S ...

* Chicken and Guns, Portland, Oregon, USA *

Chicken in the Rough Chicken in the Rough, also known as Beverly's Chicken in the Rough, is a fried chicken restaurant chain and former franchise. It was one of the earliest restaurant chain franchises in the United States. Chicken in the Rough was founded by Beverly a ...

Chicken Salad Chick Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual restaurant chain and franchise of chicken salad restaurants based in Auburn, Alabama. To date, the chain consists of over 280 franchise restaurants and stores in 19 different U.S. states. History The compan ...

Chicken Shack Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967. ...

Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket is a restaurant in Willowbrook, DuPage County, Illinois. It is located along historical U.S. Route 66, near present-day Interstate 55. History The Chicken Basket began as a simple lunch counter selling sandwiches in a ...

Duff's Famous Wings Duff's Famous Wings is a restaurant in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. History The restaurant was established in 1946 under the name "Duff's", referencing its founder, Louise Duffney. In 1985, the restaurant was renamed "Duff's Famous ...

El Pollo Loco El Pollo Loco (Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken") is the name of two independent restaurant chains that specialize in Mexican-style grilled chicken. Both were founded by Juan Francisco Ochoa. He established the first El Pollo Loco restaurant in G ...

Golden Chick Golden Chick is a quick-service restaurant franchise headquartered in Richardson, Texas. Mark Parmerlee, head of Golden Tree Restaurants serves as the President and Chairman. The first restaurant was in 1967 in San Marcos, Texas, under the name ...

Grandy's Grandy's Country Cookin' (shortened to Grandy's) is a homestyle cooking and comfort food restaurant chain based in Nashville, Tennessee. History Grandy's was founded in 1972 by Walter E. Johnson and Rex E. Sanders, who became friends while worki ...

Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken is a popular fried chicken restaurant based in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded in the tiny town of Mason, Tennessee. It has been featured on Food Channel television shows including ''The Best Thing I ...

The Halal Guys The Halal Guys is a halal fast casual restaurant franchise that began as halal carts on the southeast and southwest corners of 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. New locations, both food cart and storefront, are being ad ...

Hattie B's Hot Chicken Hattie B's Hot Chicken is an American restaurant chain based in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by a father and son, each named Nick Bishop. The company specializes in hot chicken, a fried chicken dish, and operates several restaurants in the South ...

Harold's Chicken Shack Harold's Chicken Shack (also referred to as The Fried Chicken King, Harold's Chicken, or simply Harold's) is a popular fried chicken restaurant based in Chicago, Illinois. The chain operates primarily in Chicago's predominantly black communities ...

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* Hooters * Hot Chicken Takeover *

Mary Brown's Mary Brown's Chicken, also known as Mary Brown's, is a Canadian fast food restaurant with approximately 200 locations coast-to-coast across Canada. The chain specializes in fried chicken and fried plant-based chicken substitute dinners, inclu ...

, Canada *

Max's Restaurant Max's Restaurant, sometimes known as Max's of Manila or simply Max's, is a Philippine-based multinational restaurant chain which serves fried chicken and other Filipino dishes. It is owned and operated by the Max's Group. History Max's Restauran ...

Ma Yu Ching's Bucket Chicken House Ma Yu Ching's Bucket Chicken House, or Ma Yuxing, (), is an historic restaurant in Kaifeng, Henan, China, said to be originally established in 1153, during the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). The Ma family began trading in bucket chicken in Nanjing, ...

Nando's Nando's (; ) is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries. Their logo (also seen as a sort of ...

Pollo Campero Pollo Campero is a fast-food restaurant chain, located in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Spain, Bahrain, Belize, Haiti, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Africa, Brazil, Canada, and Italy. The chain has ...

* Pollo Palenque *

Pollo Tropical Pollo Tropical (Spanish language, Spanish for "Tropical Chicken") is a South Florida-based restaurant chain and Franchising, franchise specializing in food inspired by Latin-American, Latin-Caribbean cuisine. Founded in 1988, the chain has its h ...

* Prince's Hot Chicken Shack * Quaker Steak & Lube * Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles * Rostipollos * Siipiweikot *

St-Hubert St-Hubert BBQ Ltd is a chain of Canadian casual dining restaurants best known for its rotisserie chicken. St-Hubert is most popular in Quebec, and in other French-Canadian areas such as Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. St-Hubert is the 16t ...

, Canada * Scores *

Slim Chickens Slim Chickens is a fast-casual restaurant chain which specializes in chicken tenders, wings, sandwiches, salads, wraps, chicken & waffles, and other items. It was founded in 2003 by Greg Smart and Tom Gordon. History The first location opened i ...

Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q is a quick service restaurant chain in North Carolina serving fried chicken and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 39 locations country-wide, as of May 1, 2020. It has more than 39 locations in the state, as ...

* Swiss Chalet, Canada *

Tip-Top Restaurant Tip-Top ''(often referred to as 'Pollo Tip-Top')'' is a national chain of restaurants in Nicaragua, predominantly selling chicken. It is headquartered in the country's capital city of Managua and is a franchise of Tip Top Industry. History Claud ...

White Coffee Pot White Coffee Pot Family Inns was a privately held Baltimore, Maryland, restaurant chain and coffeeshop that first did business in 1929 according to Polk's Baltimore City Directory. During the 1960s and 1970s, they opened a chain of fast-food rest ...

White Fence Farm White Fence Farm is the name of a restaurant chain with locations in the Chicago metropolitan area. The original location is in Romeoville, Illinois. Early history The original White Fence Farm location is in Romeoville, where it was established ...

* Wild Wing Cafe * Wingstop *

Zehnder's Zehnder's is a large restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan. It has seating for 1,500 people and features all-you-can-eat family-style chicken dinners, seafood, steaks, fresh baked goods and European desserts. Every year Zehnder's serves almost a m ...

Fast-food chicken restaurants

Al Tazaj Al Tazaj ( ar, الطازج) is a BBQ chicken Arabic fast casual restaurant chain headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The chain has presence in many countries of the Middle East. Meals and service The chain serves limited meals including ri ...

Bacolod Chicken Inasal Bacolod Chicken Inasal is a Philippine restaurant chain primarily serving ''inasal'', a kind of roast chicken served on skewers that originated in the Visayas. It is also a sponsor for a number of television sitcoms on ABS-CBN. History The ch ...

* Bojangles * Boston Market * Brown's Chicken & Pasta *

Bush's Chicken Bush's Chicken (stylized as Bush's Chicken!) is a fast food restaurant serving fried chicken. The company is headquartered in Waco, Texas and has over 75 franchise locations in Central, North, South, and West Texas. The chain serves fried chicke ...

California Fried Chicken California Fried Chicken (CFC) is an Indonesian fast food restaurant chain principally serving fried chicken. Its primary competitors are KFC, McDonald's, A&W, and Texas Chicken, and as of March 2019, it runs 269 locations across Indonesia. ...

Chefette Chefette Restaurants is the largest fast food restaurant chain based in the Caribbean island nation of Barbados. Currently operating throughout the island in 14 locations, Chefette is known for its broasted chicken meals as well as a local cu ...

Chester's Chester's International, known as Chester's or Chester's Chicken, is a fried chicken quick-service restaurant chain based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. W.O. Giles founded Chester's in October 1965 and adopted Chester the Chicken as the eme ...

Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A ( , a Word play, play on the American English pronunciation of "wikt:filet#Pronunciation, filet") is an American fast food restaurant chain which is the country's largest which specializes in chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in Coll ...

Chick'nCone Chick'nCone is a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania-based fast food chain, founded and owned by Jonathan Almanzar and Josh Lanier, specializing in a portable version of chicken and waffles. Products The namesake food consists of breaded chicken s ...

Chicken Cottage Chicken Cottage Limited is a UK-based fast food chain. The company is the master franchisor and owner of the "Chicken Cottage" brand. Its taste is modelled on a blend of the Indian subcontinent and Southern United States flavours using halal ing ...

* Chicken Delight *

Chicken Express Chicken Express is a regional chain of fast food restaurants concentrated in the Southern United States. History Chicken Express was established in 1988 by Richard and Nancy Stuart's Stuart Group Inc. The first restaurant opened in 1988 in Benbr ...

* Chicken Licken * Chicken Republic * The Chicken Rice Shop *

Chicken Treat Chicken Treat is an Australian barbecue chicken fast food restaurant chain that was founded and primarily operates in Western Australia. As of December 2022, Chicken Treat has over 60 outlets within Western Australia, one in Central Queensland, ...

ChicKing ChicKing is an Indian-Arabian fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Kochi, Kerala, India that specializes in fried chicken. It was founded by A. K. Mansoor in 2000 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Partnerships ChicKing was the food partne ...

* Chooks-to-Go *

Church's Chicken Church's Texas Chicken is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To-Go by George W. Church Sr. on April 17, 1952, in San ...

* Cluck-U Chicken *

Dixie Lee Fried Chicken Dixie Lee is a regional franchised fried chicken fast-food restaurant founded in Belleville, Ontario in 1964 by Ramon Leon Walmsley. The company is currently based in Kingston and Bruce Mines, Ontario. Its largest group of franchise operators i ...

Dixy Chicken Dixy Chicken is a fast food chain that specializes in halal chicken. The company was founded by two British Pakistanis, who offered halal versions of products found in McDonald's and KFC. It is owned by an English company, SABT2 Limited. Dixy Ch ...

Ezell's Chicken Ezell's Famous Chicken is a Seattle fast food restaurant. The first restaurant was opened on February 3, 1984, in Seattle's Central District neighborhood, near Garfield High School. The restaurant chain has 12 other locations in the Puget Sound ...

* Foosackly's *

Fosters Freeze Fosters Freeze is a chain of fast-food restaurants in California. Its first location, on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, California, was opened by George Foster in 1946 and is still operating. The chain's name refers to its soft-serve ice milk and ...

* Frisby * Geprek Bensu *

Golden Skillet Golden Skillet is a fast-food chain that mainly sells fried chicken originating in Richmond, Virginia. The first Golden Skillet chicken was sold in 1963 at the downtown Richmond department store Thalhimer's. The fried chicken recipe was created b ...

* Guthrie's *

* Hartz Chicken * HNT Chicken * J&G Fried Chicken *

Jollibee Jollibee is a Filipino chain of fast food restaurants owned by Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC). As of December 2021, JFC had a total of about 1,500 Jollibee outlets worldwide, with restaurants in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, East Asia ...

Juan Pollo Juan Pollo is a Mexican cuisine, Mexican-style rotisserie chicken restaurant chain headquartered in San Bernardino, California founded in 1984 by Albert Okura. Its restaurants are located mostly in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, ...

Kennedy Fried Chicken Kennedy Fried Chicken and Crown Fried Chicken are common restaurant names primarily in the New York–New Jersey, Philadelphia, Delaware and Baltimore areas of the United States, but also in nearby smaller cities or towns along the Northeaster ...

Kenny Rogers Roasters Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chain of chicken-based restaurants founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and former KFC CEO John Y. Brown Jr., who was a former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Brown had been an early investor in Ken ...

KFC KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, that specializes in fried chicken. It is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 2 ...

* KLG *

Krispy Krunchy Chicken Krispy Krunchy Chicken, also known as KKC, is an international fried chicken food chain founded in 1989 in Lafayette, Louisiana, by Neal Onebane. It has over 2,600 locations across 47 states in the U.S., American Samoa, Malaysia and Mexico and i ...

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Kyochon Kyochon F&B Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean fried-chicken restaurant chain. Founded in 1991, Kyochon is one of the largest Korean fried-chicken restaurants in South Korea. Kyochon operates some restaurants in the United States as well. Kyochon h ...

* Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken *

Louisiana Fried Chicken Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain that started in 1976 in Los Angeles by Joe Dion, a Michigan native. The company is a franchise venture where licensees pay for license rights and a flour and red pepper recipe used to ...

Mang Inasal Mang Inasal Philippines, Inc., also known as Mang Inasal, ( Hiligaynon for "Mr. Barbecue") is a barbecue fast food restaurant chain in the Philippines, established in Iloilo City in 2003. History The company was started by Edgar "Injap" Sia ...

* Marrybrown * Martin's BBQ *

Max's of Manila Max's Restaurant, sometimes known as Max's of Manila or simply Max's, is a Philippine-based multinational restaurant chain which serves fried chicken and other Filipino dishes. It is owned and operated by the Max's Group. History Max's Restauran ...

Morley's Morley's is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom, selling fried chicken, burgers and spare ribs. Morley's was founded in 1985, by Sri Lankan immigrant Kannalingam "Indran" Selvendran (1951–2022). The first Morley's location was in ...

* Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits *

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* Pelicana Chicken *

Pollo Brujo Pollo Brujo is a fast food chain of chicken restaurants, which operates with 10 locations in Guatemala, as well as in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Incident On October 28, 2019, a Pollo Brujo security worker was found dead inside the compan ...

– ten locations in Guatemala; also in Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico *

– based in Guatemala *

Pollos Frisby Frisby is a Colombian fried chicken restaurant chain founded by Alfredo Hoyos Mazuera in 1977. Frisby was founded in Pereira. It started as a pizzeria; however, later its owners decided to finally go into the fried chicken market, pioneering th ...

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits, is an American multinational chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants that was formed in 1972 ...

* Pudgie's * Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers * Red Rooster * Roy Rogers Restaurants * SCR *

Southern Fried Chicken Fried chicken, also known as Southern fried chicken, is a dish consisting of chicken pieces that have been coated with seasoned flour or batter and pan-fried, deep fried, pressure fried, or air fried. The breading adds a crisp coating or c ...

Tastee Fried Chicken Tastee Fried Chicken (also known as ''TFC'' or ''De Tastee Fried Chicken Nigeria LTD'') is a fast food fried chicken restaurant based in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. It has 14 locations. History Tastee Fried Chicken was founded by Olayinka ...

* TKK Fried Chicken * Wienerwald * Wild Wing Restaurants * Wing Zone *

WingStreet Pizza Hut is an American multinational restaurant chain and international Franchising, franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. They serve their signature pan pizza and other dishes including pasta, breadsticks and ...

Wing Stop Wingstop Inc. is an American multinational chain of aviation-themed restaurants specializing in chicken wings. Wingstop locations follow a 1930s and 1940s pre-jet aviation theme. The restaurant chain was founded in 1994 in Garland, Texas ...

* YaYa's Flame Broiled Chicken *

Zankou Chicken Zankou Chicken is a small, family-owned chain of Armenian and Mediterranean fast casual restaurants located in the Los Angeles area. The restaurants are especially known for their spit-roasted chicken, shawarma, falafel, tahini, and a "secret ...

* Zaxby's

Defunct chicken restaurants

* Chicken George * Chooks Fresh & Tasty * Coon Chicken Inn *

Koo Koo Roo Koo Koo Roo was an American fast casual restaurant chain specializing in charbroiled chicken founded in 1988 by Los Angeles-based restaurateurs Mike and Ray Badalian. The name "Koo Koo Roo" was an onomatopoeic reference to the crow of a rooste ...

Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television ...

Pioneer Chicken Pioneer Chicken (or Pioneer Take Out, as it is officially named) is an American fried chicken restaurant chain which was founded in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1961 by H. R. Kaufman. When Kaufman sold the chain in 1987, there were 270 restaurants o ...

* Sisters Chicken & Biscuits

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