{"id":276025,"date":"2026-05-02T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:50:23","slug":"wyomings-chicken-wing-king-expanding-to-texas-now-has-locations-in-five-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming’s Chicken Wing King Expanding To Texas, Now Has Locations In Five States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wyoming\u2019s Wing King is expanding his award-winning chicken wing empire to the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

Trent Weitzel, owner of Weitzel’s Wings \u2014 aka Double Dubs \u2014 and reigning four-time defending champion of the National Buffalo Wing Festival in New York, is traveling to Texas for the launch of the newest Double Dub\u2019s food truck.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one will be opening in the Fort Worth-Dallas area on May 13,\u201d he told Cowboy State Daily. \u201cMy girlfriend and I are heading out there to train the people, talk with the managers, and make sure everything is the same as it is on all my trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas is the fifth state to get a Double Dub\u2019s truck. In addition to his home state of Wyoming, Weitzel has friends managing the growing brand with trucks in Colorado, Wisconsin, and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s already a healthy national appetite for Weitzel\u2019s wings. The Texas truck marks the next step in an ambitious plan to spread these wings across the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not really a franchise yet,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’re doing what I’ve always done and getting it out there to where it will be possible to franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TrentTrent Weitzel and Josh Allen at a past National Buffalo Wing Festival. (Courtesy Photo)The Chicken Wing World<\/p>\n

In August 2025<\/a>, Weitzel won Festival Favorite at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York. It was his fourth consecutive time taking the top prize in the wing capital of the world.<\/p>\n

In July 2023, Weitzel and his team\u00a0set two world records<\/a>\u00a0in Cheyenne, selling 48,083 wings in 24 hours. That set records for the most wings sold in an eight-hour and 24-hour period.<\/p>\n

One of Double Dub\u2019s highest profile fans is\u00a0Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen<\/a>. He got hooked during his time at the University of Wyoming and has gone on record saying Weitzel\u2019s wings are \u201cthe best on the planet.”<\/p>\n

This prestige only increased the growing demand for Weitzel\u2019s wings. Now, Weitzel is just trying to meet that appetite.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re still trying to make a big name for ourselves in the chicken wing world,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to make it bigger, better, and grow the family more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weitzel said going nationwide has \u201calways been the plan.\u201d <\/p>\n

After his recent successes, it\u2019s becoming easier to find markets and partners where Double Dub\u2019s can succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been a goal to get further and further out,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a big following on the East Coast from winning those festivals, and we\u2019re out on the road, traveling back and forth between Buffalo and California, testing markets in different places to see how big it can become.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are issues that come with expanding any food business. One that Weitzel is now working on is ensuring consistent quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can buy my salt blends and rubs in a store,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to figure out ways to create those with all the same ingredients that I’m using, whether it\u2019s in Laramie or Seattle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weitzel said quality might be \u201cthe hardest thing\u201d when it comes to expanding Double Dub\u2019s, but the \u201cbiggest thing\u201d for him, personally, is trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery truck that we have out there right now is basically family,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re managed by people I know personally. It\u2019s not just anybody who can come by a truck. That makes it easy, but we want to get to the point where people can have Double Dub\u2019s all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA long line of people wait for buffalo wings as Weitzel’s Wings begins its world-record attempt at Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co. in downtown Cheyenne in July 2023. (Leo Wolfson, Cowboy State Daily)By The Bottle<\/p>\n

Trucks aren\u2019t the only way Weitzel is looking to take over the chicken wing world. He\u2019s working with a company in Washington that wants to start bottling his sauces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can start bottling stuff, everything gets dialed in,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the easiest way to franchise Double Dub\u2019s across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ensuring consistent quality for each of the Double Dub\u2019s trucks will naturally help ensure the same consistency for the bottled sauces. Soon, those sauces will be on the shelves of big-box stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Weitzel is excited to help the Texas truck get up and running. <\/p>\n

Double Dub\u2019s has earned a national reputation, and could soon be nationally available, but he\u2019ll always be personally invested in the chicken wing business he\u2019s built.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still my brand and everything,\u201d he said. \u201cWe work hard making the same sauces, French fries, and tater tots. We really try to make sure the quality is right on point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Double Dub’s crew at a Buffalo Bills game. (Courtesy Photo)Wing Kingdom<\/p>\n

Double Dub\u2019s won\u2019t be going to Buffalo for this year\u2019s National Buffalo Wing Festival. Someone else will be taking home the Festival Favorite trophy.<\/p>\n

Weitzel\u2019s more involved with the continued expansion of Double Dub\u2019s, via sauces and trucks. He\u2019s got the perfect person to help him expand his empire: Scott Lowery, co-founder of Buffalo Wild Wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s an amazing guy, and he loves what I do,\u201d Weitzel said.<\/p>\n

Double Dub\u2019s started as a Wyoming wing business with big ambitions. After years of hard work and national achievement, Weitzel is entering a new era of success with confidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people in Buffalo were kind of jealous of the people from Wyoming, just because they get to have (Double Dub\u2019s) all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just want to try to get Double Dub\u2019s to where all of our fans and followers can have it, wherever they are.<\/p>\n

Andrew Rossi can be reached at arossi@cowboystatedaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyoming\u2019s Wing King is expanding his award-winning chicken wing empire to the Lone Star State. Trent Weitzel, owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276025","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=276025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}