{"id":390116,"date":"2025-09-01T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390116\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:34:12","slug":"hit-us-fast-food-chain-to-open-57-restaurants-across-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390116\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit US fast food chain to open 57 restaurants across UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> 1 September 2025, 20:12  | Updated: 1 September 2025, 20:12 <\/p>\n<p> 1 September 2025, 20:12  | Updated: 1 September 2025, 20:12 <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A Dave's Hot Chicken restaurant\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"751135\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/751135\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    A Dave&#8217;s Hot Chicken restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-a-daves-h-477904049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A hugely popular US fast food chain is set to open nearly 60 new locations across the UK after the success of its first three restaurants.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken, partnered with Zizzi parent company Azzurri Group, has announced plans to open 180 new locations across Europe, with restaurants coming to Portugal, Spain, and Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A whopping 57 of those restaurants will be opened in the UK in partnership with Azzurri Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken opened its first location on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, in December and has since attracted more than 1,000 customers a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/business\/38feb9fc05104bb18007fdcebd35272d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more: Time for tea: Whittard of Chelsea opening new UK stores after sales surge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken Shop on Shaftesbury Avenue.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"751136\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/751136\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken Shop on Shaftesbury Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-daves-hot-687915958.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Following its London launch, Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken expanded to Manchester and Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dave\u2019s is &#8220;a once-in-a-generation brand&#8221; set for \u201cglobal success\u201d Azzurri&#8217;s CEO, Steve Holmes, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken began in 2017 as a small food truck in an East Hollywood car park, founded by chef Dave Kopushyan and three friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Their Nashville-style hot chicken drew massive crowds and eventually led to a brick-and-mortar shop and, with celebrity investors like Drake, rapid growth into a global chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">It currently has around 200 restaurants across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 September 2025, 20:12 | Updated: 1 September 2025, 20:12 1 September 2025, 20:12 | Updated: 1 September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-390116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115130956137010324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}