Why did the chicken cross the tarmac? To catch a flight to Dave’s Hot Chicken’s first airport location! Dave’s Hot Chicken, the fastest-growing Nashville-style hot chicken sensation from Los Angeles, ...

A trio of friends — all high school dropouts — scraped together $900 in 2017 because they believed that their Nashville-style fried chicken stand was the future.

Dave’s Hot Chicken was founded in 2017 by brothers Tommy and Gary Rubenyan, Arman Oganesyan, and Dave Kopushyan, the latter of whom is a vegetarian chef who is the brand’s namesake. Those ...

Dave’s Hot Chicken first launched in a Los Angeles parking lot. On Monday, Roark Capital bought a majority stake in a deal worth “pretty close” to $1 billion.