![]() If you don’t let me know why because we want to make this one of the best restaurants out here. I just wanted people to come out so I’m paying for everything today. When the opportunity came to create this franchise, we had a meeting and sold over 250. “Chicken sandwiches, chicken tacos, chicken everything. Coming where we come from me and this little guy had to eat chicken a lot,” laughed Shaq as he motioned toward his almost seven-foot-tall brother. “This is my creation-Excuse me, this is my mama’s creation. Have Big Chicken delivered anywhere nationwide It’s basically Big Chicken on-demand. For Shaq the menu is a reminder of the food he ate as a child. Each item on the menu is said to have Shaquille’s individualized touch with offerings like chicken sandwiches, popcorn chicken, tenders, sliders, salads, fries, shakes, ice cream sandwiches, and cookies. I love the turnout but if it was ten people or one hundred people, I’m going to be thankful.”īig Chicken, a franchise started in 2018, is molded around the personality of Shaquille O’Neal, advertising itself as the only concept that offers guests an inside look into the life and personality of the NBA superstar. “I just want to thank the people of Houston for coming out. Photo by DeVaughn Douglas “I’ve been living here for 30 years,” he said as he paused to sign a card being held up by a young boy. For O’Neal, the response is just another blessing from the city he now calls home. ![]() If Saturday's turnout is any indication, O’Neal is well on his way to adding another success to his portfolio. He has become a mogul investing and owning everything from restaurants to movie theaters to car washes. ![]() Shaquille O’Neal has turned a successful NBA career into a business empire. The interaction only lasted a second before the former Lakers center moved to the next fan looking for their moment with the superstar. “Let me do that for you,” Shaq laughed as he grabbed her phone and captured the picture with his outstretched arm. At one point a shorter woman stopped him to get a selfie and as she held the camera out quickly realized how difficult it would be to get O’Neal and her in the same picture. The seven-foot one inch basketball phenomenon towered over the other people in the restaurant as he made his way around the room, shaking hands, signing autographs, and posing for pictures. Standing near the doorway, just within the view of people near the front of the crowd, was Shaquille O’Neal. People exiting holding chicken sandwiches and fries filed through the quickly closing mass of fans pressing against the windows trying to get a peek inside. As more cars arrived attempting to find any space available, the line in front of Big Chicken began to break down into a mass of people trying to get in the front door.Īs people pushed toward the entrance, police cleared an area out for patrons to exit. The parking lots on both sides of Westheimer between South Gessner and Tanglewilde were packed with vehicles as Houstonians gathered in front of the newly opened restaurant nestled in Woodlake Square near a Walgreens. ![]() Big Chicken A fried chicken sandwich up close.Grand openings of new restaurants are often well attended but Saturday's opening of the first Big Chicken in Houston combined with Shaquille O’Neal's presence and free menu offerings brought out so many people the fire marshal eventually shut everything down and had the crowd ushered outside the building. Big Chicken now has more than 150 locations in the works. In May, O’Neal announced that he had signed a franchise agreement with restaurant owner Damon Kreizenbeck to open six new Big Chicken locations across northwest Nevada, QSR reported. The new Big Chicken location will serve sandwiches like the big and sloppy with mac and cheese, crispy fried onions, and roasted garlic barbecue aioli and the Shaq attack with pepper jack cheese, jalapeno slaw, and spicy chipotle barbecue sauce. The opening of the first Big Chicken was documented by O’Neal’s Big Chicken Shaq Facebook series and followed the athlete-turned-restaurateur as he transformed a former Indian restaurant into a casual sandwich joint. The new Big Chicken, located at 9595 West Tropicana Avenue will host its grand opening on January 12. He has since expanded to nine other states. O’Neal opened the first Big Chicken in Las Vegas in 2018, located near the Virgin Hotel. Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is opening a second location of his Las Vegas chicken restaurant Big Chicken next week and bringing his fried chicken sandwiches, mac and cheese, and milkshakes to the southwest valley.
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