Dave's Hot Chicken to open Friday

Dave’s Hot Chicken plans to make its Spokane debut on Friday, March 7, a representative of the franchise says in an email.

The opening of the hot chicken restaurant comes nearly a year after the Journal first reported plans for the establishment located at 6100 N. Division, just south of the Tomato Street restaurant.

The establishment is being opened by Valleyford, Washington-based RSM Hold Co.

“Dave’s Hot Chicken is a fast growing, electric brand,” Kevin Eggen, CEO and co-owner of RSM Hold Co., told the Journal in April. “It has a ton of excitement around it.”

Eggen is also CEO and co-owner of Bonney Lake, Washington-based Rock Solid Restaurants LLC, the parent company of Hops N Drops, a restaurant chain with locations in North Spokane and Spokane Valley.

Through a franchising agreement with Dave’s Hot Chicken, RSM Hold Co. plans to open a total of four of the hot chicken restaurants, the Journal previously reported. In addition to the North Division location, Eggen says his company hopes to open another location in Spokane, as well as locations in Yakima and Tri-Cities, Washington.

The restaurant’s menu centers around chicken tenders and chicken sliders that are available in seven different spice levels, ranging from “No Spice” to “Reaper,” the latter of which is so spicy it is accompanied by a waiver and release of liability.

Dave’s Hot Chicken, which now has well over 200 restaurants worldwide, was founded in 2017 by a group of friends in an East Hollywood parking lot before gaining popularity through social media and a food-focused Los Angeles publication, the franchise’s website says.

Colbert-based Kilgore Construction Inc. constructed the nearly 2,800-square-foot North Spokane restaurant, which includes a drive-through.

Dave’s Hot Chicken will be open 11 a.m.-11 p.m. daily.