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 fried chicken, chicken and waffles,

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es or chicken and biscuits.

Chicken restaurants

* 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken * Albaik * Anchor Bar * Baes Fried Chicken, 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 ...

* Chicken and Guns, Portland, Oregon, USA * Chicken in the Rough * Chicken Salad Chick *

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 196 ...

* Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket * Duff's Famous Wings * El Pollo Loco * Golden Chick * Grandy's * Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken * The Halal Guys * Hattie B's Hot Chicken * Harold's Chicken Shack *

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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, incl ...

, 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 Restaura ...

* Ma Yu Ching's Bucket Chicken House *

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 ...

* Pollo Campero *

Pollo Palenque Taco Palenque is a Mexican cuisine restaurant chain in South Texas and northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. The restaurant is headquartered in Laredo, Texas and was established in 1987. The restaurant's main dishes are the flame-grilled beef or chicken Faj ...

* Pollo Tropical * 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 ...

, Canada * Scores * Slim Chickens *

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 * White Coffee Pot * White Fence Farm * Wild Wing Cafe * Wingstop * Zehnder's

Fast-food chicken restaurants

* Albaik *

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 r ...

* Bacolod Chicken Inasal * 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 chick ...

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. H ...

* Chefette *

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 e ...

Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A ( , a play on the American English pronunciation of " filet") is an American fast food restaurant chain which is the country's largest which specializes in chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in College Park, Georgia, Chick-fil-A op ...

* Chick'nCone *

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 * El Pollo Loco *

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 Foosackly's (stylized as foosackly's) is an American chain of chicken restaurants in coastal Alabama and Northwest Florida. Background Foosackly's was co-founded by Will Fusaiotti and Eric Brechtel. The two attended Louisiana State University to ...

* Fosters Freeze * Frisby * Geprek Bensu * Golden Chick * Golden Skillet * Guthrie's * Harold's Chicken Shack * 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 *

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 Northeastern U ...

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 * 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 ...

* Kudu * Kyochon * Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken * Louisiana Fried Chicken *

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 * Morley's * Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits *

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* Pelicana Chicken * Pollo Brujo – ten locations in Guatemala; also in Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico * Pollo Campero – based in Guatemala * Pollos Frisby *

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 * Slim Chickens *

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 o ...

* Tastee Fried Chicken * TKK Fried Chicken * Wienerwald * Wild Wing Restaurants * Wing Zone * WingStreet Wings-fries-basket

* Wing Stop * 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 * Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken *

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 op ...

* Sisters Chicken & Biscuits

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Defunct chicken restaurants

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