The restaurant’s founder, Derreck Johnson, told KTVU that he opened the restaurant because he wanted to build a place where community members could “come home to good food and people.”
“Food brings folks together, no matter who they are or where they’re from,” Johnson says on the Home of Chicken and Waffles website. “It’s a way of showing you care, a love language passed down from generation to generation. When you cook for someone, you’re not just feeding them, you’re creating memories that’ll stick with them forever.”