{"id":259594,"date":"2026-05-05T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259594\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:13:09","slug":"daves-hot-chicken-bringing-the-heat-to-pinellas-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259594\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken bringing the heat to Pinellas Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A California-based franchise known for hot chicken is expanding its footprint in Pinellas County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daveshotchicken.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken<\/a> is headed to 4683 Park Boulevard in Pinellas Park, taking over a former Moe\u2019s Southwest Grill, which closed earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to plans submitted to the city, Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken is currently renovating the space\u2014constructing new partition walls, ceilings, and bathrooms, revamping the plumbing and electrical systems, and installing a new kitchen exhaust hood and self-order kiosks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 2,300 square-foot, fast-casual restaurant will be able to seat 61 people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Scott Strahm of King Chicken LLC, the local franchisee of this location, tells St. Pete Rising that the new Pinellas Park storefront will be open by July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The fast-casual chain is known for its Nashville-style chicken tenders, which can be piled high on a slider or served on top of fries or mac and cheese. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Nashville-style chicken is characterized by its spicy kick from cayenne pepper-infused oil, resulting in a deep red color.\u00a0 The spice level at Dave\u2019s ranges from \u201cnaked\u201d and \u201clittle mild\u201d to its \u201creaper\u201d flavor, and customers typically have to sign a waiver to tackle its spiciest tenders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California-based franchise known for hot chicken is expanding its footprint in Pinellas County.\u00a0 Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-259594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}