{"id":318557,"date":"2026-06-02T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:59:09","slug":"slim-chickens-targets-summer-opening-in-round-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318557\/","title":{"rendered":"Slim Chickens targets summer opening in Round Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimchickens.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slim Chickens<\/a> is targeting an opening for its Round Rock location at the end of July or early August, a company representative confirmed to Community Impact in May.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know <\/p>\n<p>Company representatives shared intentions to bring a restaurant to the city in October, initially aiming for an April opening. A company representative confirmed the updated timeline for opening May 19.<\/p>\n<p>About the business <\/p>\n<p>Slim Chickens offers a variety of chicken wings, tenders, sandwiches and other chicken-based items on the menu, in addition to southern-style sides like macaroni and cheese, potato salad and fried pickles.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this? <\/p>\n<p>The future Slim Chickens restaurant is opening in a space formerly home to Zaxby&#8217;s Chicken Fingers, which <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/round-rock\/dining\/2025\/06\/12\/zaxbys-chicken-fingers-buffalo-wings-closes-round-rock-location\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed in June 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slim Chickens is targeting an opening for its Round Rock location at the end of July or early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,43758,114252,94234,114253,114251],"class_list":["post-318557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-round-rock-dining-news","tag-round-rock-fried-chicken","tag-round-rock-restaurants","tag-round-rock-zaxby","tag-slim-chickens-round-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318557","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=318557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}