The new location will be at 370 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Suite 102, and will be the fourth Roots Chicken Shak in Texas, following earlier openings in Plano, Addison and Austin.<\/p>\n
Franchisers Corey and Marian\u00a0Epperson, who also own the Addison location, will operate the Irving restaurant. The Addison location opened in December 2025.<\/p>\n
The couple has a special connection to Irving and Las\u00a0Colinas: Their first date was by the Las Colinas canals<\/a>, the brand said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re excited to have Corey and Marian bringing Roots Chicken Shak to Irving and growing with us,\u201d Derry said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n The restaurant is part of the expansion of the concept created by Derry and her restaurant group, T2D Concepts, which she founded with business partner Tom Foley. It operates concepts including Radici<\/a>, Roots<\/a>, The Landing<\/a> and Roots Chicken Shak.\u00a0<\/p>\n Roots Chicken Shak’s specialty is chicken fried in duck fat and seasoned with Derry\u2019s own spice blend.\u00a0<\/p>\n The menu includes wings, strips, fried-chicken biscuits, salads and sandwiches. It also offers Southern-inspired sides such as macaroni and cheese, collard greens and red beans and rice.\u00a0<\/p>\n An opening date in Irving has not been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new location will be at 370 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Suite 102, and will be the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13523,160,162,161,89512,91555,90636,89276,89307],"class_list":["post-475366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-las-colinas","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-celebrities","tag-tp-irving","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475366","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=475366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}