{"id":240614,"date":"2026-04-08T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:01:07","slug":"beloved-texas-fast-food-chain-expanding-in-houston-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240614\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Texas fast-food chain expanding in Houston suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video, posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kizzyrene\/video\/7624959848102382862\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">@kizzyrene<\/a>, didn&#8217;t mention a specific address for the fast-food restaurant&#8217;s new location. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/dining\/2026\/04\/06\/frenchys-chicken-to-open-in-pearland\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Community Impact Pearland<\/a>, the East Pearland Frenchy&#8217;s Chicken will be setting up shop in the space formerly home to Oh My Tea! at 1909 N. Main St. The bubble tea shop closed in January.<\/p>\n<p>Frenchy&#8217;s has yet to add the Pearland location to their website&#8217;s list of restaurants. The chain has yet to respond to\u00a0Chron&#8217;s request for more information about the new restaurant, including when it could open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Frenchy&#8217;s Chicken has been a staple spot for fried chicken and New Orleans-inspired Creole comfort dishes.\u00a0NOLA native Percy &#8220;Frenchy&#8221;\u00a0Creuzot opened up his namesake restaurant in Houston&#8217;s Third Ward in 1969. Since, what began as a po-boy shop grew to a fried chicken franchise with multiple locations throughout Southeast Texas. Today, there are a dozen open including in Cypress, Houston, Humble, Katy, Longview and\u00a0Rosharon, with another coming soon to Port Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>But this wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Frenchy&#8217;s\u00a0brought its famous fried tenders and wings to Pearland. In 2015, the chain opened a location at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frenchyschicken\/posts\/new-store-alertour-pearland-location-is-now-open9415-fm-518-broadwaypearland-tx-\/10152864783945914\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">9415 Broadway St.<\/a>, next to a Shipley Do-Nuts. But it was only in business for about three years before shuttering in 2018, as <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/local-news\/houston\/pearland-friendswood\/features\/dining\/2018\/10\/29\/frenchys-chicken-closes-in-pearland\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Community Impact previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video, posted by @kizzyrene, didn&#8217;t mention a specific address for the fast-food restaurant&#8217;s new location. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1703,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-240614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-chronfood","9":"tag-chronstaff","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}