{"id":403006,"date":"2026-08-10T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403006\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:34:16","slug":"shaquille-oneal-backed-big-chicken-closes-in-fort-worth-keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403006\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O’Neal-backed Big Chicken closes in Fort Worth | Keller – Roanoke – Northeast Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fried chicken restaurant, backed by NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O\u2019Neal, closed in June.<\/p>\n

Big Chicken<\/a> opened Sep. 3, 2024, in the Alliance area of Fort Worth, according to previous Community Impact reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The menu was inspired by O\u2019Neal\u2019s childhood favorites and included: fried chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders, Cheez-It-crusted macaroni and cheese, popcorn chicken and shakes, according to its website.<\/p>\n

Tradecor Real Estate Development has listed the 2,850-square-foot end cap for sublease with a term running through 2034, according to an online posting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Big Chicken still has locations<\/a> in 17 states, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom and Honduras, according to its website. The only remaining location in Texas is in Austin inside the Moody Center at the University of Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fried chicken restaurant, backed by NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O\u2019Neal, closed in June. Big Chicken opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134388,141204,116,118,117,141203,141205],"class_list":["post-403006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-big-chicken","tag-chicken-restaurants-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-shaquille-o039neal","tag-shaquille-o039neal-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403006","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=403006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}