Ezell's Chicken

Ezell's Famous Chicken is a Seattle fast food restaurant. The first restaurant was opened on February 3, 1984 in Seattle, Washington's Cherry Hill neighborhood, which is still open today. The restaurant chain has 4 other locations in South Seattle, Renton, Lynnwood and Woodinville. The firm is in an expansion mode, and has recently put a location on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. [ [http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2006/09/25/newscolumn2.html Ezell's Famous Chicken spreads its wings by opening on Microsoft's campus - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): ] ]

Ezell's was made famous when Talk show host Oprah Winfrey called it her favorite fried chicken. There are a number of photos of her on the wall of the original restaurant proclaiming her love of the chicken. It is also said she has the chicken flown to her in Chicago when she has a craving. [ [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/safeco/fans/safe16.shtml Home-team vendors add spice to stadium's Bullpen Market food court] ]

History

The restaurant started over 20 years ago by Ezell Stephens and Lewis Rudd. In 1978 they talked about opening a restaurant, when Ezell got out of the Coast Guard and Lewis out of the army. After 6 years of night school, they finally got the funding to open in 1984. [ [http://www.ezellschicken.com/about.html About Ezell's] ]

Menu

Besides serving southern fried chicken, Ezell's offers many other favorites such as baked beans, potato salad, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and sweet potato pie.

External links

* [http://www.ezellschicken.com/ Ezell's Home Page]
* [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003554579_ezells03m.html Seattle Times article]

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