{"id":399571,"date":"2026-08-06T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:14:08","slug":"pluckers-to-offer-students-free-meals-during-back-to-school-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399571\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluckers to offer students free meals during back-to-school week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students can score a free meal at any Pluckers location during\u00a0their first week back to school starting Monday, according to the Texas-based chicken wing bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A K-12 student can receive a free meal with any purchase of any adult entr\u00e9e from Monday to Sunday, a Pluckers spokesperson said. It will\u00a0mark the first week of school<\/a> for most districts in the Houston area.<\/p>\n

Students ages 10 and younger are eligible for a free kids’ meal, and those who are over 10 can get a free adult entr\u00e9e worth up to $17. Students who are 11 years and older must bring a valid student ID to receive their meal, according to the restaurant.<\/p>\n

“Back to school means back to chaos \u2014 and Pluckers wants to make at least one thing easy,” Pluckers said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Pluckers was founded in Austin more than 30 years ago and has nine locations in the Houston area. The chain has many more restaurants around San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

The upcoming offer is the first of its kind at Pluckers, which has worked in the past to support students and offer free kids’ meals in the past, Pluckers spokesperson Sidney Tishgart said. The restaurant also extended free meals<\/a> to\u00a0TSA agents and air traffic control workers<\/a> during the two previous government shutdowns.<\/p>\n

“Our founders wanted to give parents a little relief heading into back-to-school season, whether that’s a free meal or just one less thing to juggle during a chaotic week,” Tishgart wrote in an email to the Chronicle. “It’s really about supporting our community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students can score a free meal at any Pluckers location during\u00a0their first week back to school starting Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-399571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571","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=399571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}