{"id":248388,"date":"2026-04-14T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:44:28","slug":"slim-chickens-to-open-first-el-paso-location-in-far-east-el-paso-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248388\/","title":{"rendered":"Slim Chickens to open first El Paso location in far east El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso is getting its first Slim Chickens restaurant, with a grand opening next Tuesday in far east El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is located at 3152 N Zaragoza Rd.<\/p>\n<p>It will open on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The opening marks the brand\u2019s first in the city and will be led by operator Derrik Williams, who has spent the last several years building Slim Chickens locations in nearby New Mexico before expanding into El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the new restaurant is expected to bring roughly 85 new jobs to the area.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/intocable-announces-cultura-tour-2026-stop-in-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Intocable announces &#8216;Cultura Tour 2026&#8217; stop in El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso is getting its first Slim Chickens restaurant, with a grand opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-248388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248388","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=248388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}