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They’ve become, well, the cluck of the town.
A cluster of chicken restaurants — it’s now a whopping seven, two of them brand new — are all footsteps from one another in Pompano Beach, on a prominent stretch of Federal Highway.
This past year they’ve stirred plenty of reaction as the tally seemingly keeps growing and growing. Some neighbors cheer. (“I just can’t get enough chicken.”) Some jeer. (“Oh, not another one.”) And some simply question why. (“Why do we need all these chicken places right on top of each other?”)
And there are the neighbors who revel at the many nicknames coined for the spot. Take your pick: Pompano Beach’s Chicken Corner. The Chicken Coop. The Chicken Strip. The Coop Capital.
“It’s comical at this point,” said Ludmila Lavena, 35, a resident who’s more confused than bothered by the abundance of chicken. “Why don’t other places open up rather than just all chicken spots?”
Dave’s Hot Chicken at 2390 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Offering more chicken
One of the latest waves of public reaction came earlier this month when a new Dave’s Hot Chicken was opening its latest South Florida location, this time joining the nest in Pompano Beach. The new restaurant opened during the July Fourth weekend at 2390 N. Federal Highway, Suite 101.
Sure enough, the Pompano Beach community’s poultry surveillance was in high gear: Lavena took to Facebook to alert everyone about the new restaurant. Soon after came more than 100 comments, sounding off again about the many chicken sites.
Construction continues at Pollo Campero at 2451 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Keen-eyed residents keep count of how many chicken restaurants there are now. Some also note there’s yet another chicken eatery on the way, a Pollo Campero. It’s set to soon open at the former site of a Boston Market, at 2451 N. Federal Highway.
Pollo Campero is opening right between Raising Cane’s, which opened in 2023 at 2501 N. Federal Highway, and PDQ, which opened in 2013 at 2341 N. Federal Highway. In a statement to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Pollo Campero described why it’s forging ahead with its newest spot despite all the competition.
In part, it said, “We’re confident in our positioning alongside other chicken restaurants because we offer something fundamentally different.” And the distinction becomes “crystal clear” once customers “experience our one-of-a-kind flavors and elevated service model.”
KFC at 2292 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
The other nearby chicken eateries, all on Federal near East Copans Road, are:
— Chick-fil-A, 2250 N. Federal Highway.
— KFC, 2292 N. Federal Highway.
— Pollo Tropical, 2320 N. Federal Highway.
Seeing big demand
The chatter about the Pompano Beach chicken restaurants also tends to elicit comments from residents elsewhere in the region, who describe the chicken businesses proliferating in their communities.
Florida has been one of the top markets in the U.S. for chicken eateries. The South Florida Sun Sentinel has previously reported about the boom of chicken shacks, noting how market research predicts that takeout fried-chicken businesses alone would grow by $1.92 billion from 2021 to next year. A 2023 news article’s headline read, “Finger-lickin’ good: Why so many fried-chicken restaurants are flocking to South Florida.” It noted that in 2023, at least seven chicken restaurants had opened within the span of a year across Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Pollo Tropical at 2320 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Lauren McGee Weiss, a commercial broker in Pompano Beach, said it’s no accident: Businesses are methodical about finding the best locations, conducting research that includes demographics and foot traffic.
McGee Weiss said the restaurants’ proximity to I-95, a convenient two miles away, likely is a contributing factor. (Beyond the seven Pompano chicken sites all on Federal, there are more farther away, including a Wing Stop off Copans Road.)
“When you get off of an interstate, you’re going to see competition across from competition,” she said. “What an established operator will see is, ‘Hey, there’s already my customer base here. They’re already spending their money on chicken.’”
Raising Cane’s at 2501 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Restaurants can thrive from the competition, each aiming to offer the best product, price and customer service, McGee Weiss said.
Felipe Rivera, a manager at the PDQ in Pompano Beach, agrees. He said the proximity to other chicken restaurants works in PDQ’s favor.
“It’s competitive,” he said. “If anything, I’d say with the opening of new restaurants we see an increase (in customers) — probably because people see new restaurants and they want to try it and they’ve never heard of us before. And then in the end, they want to try us as well.”
PDQ at 2341 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Lavena, 35, the Pompano resident, said she herself prefers PDQ, and hopes the clientele only keeps growing. “I don’t think that they get enough recognition or get enough business, at least,” she said.
Chick-fil-A at 2250 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach is shown on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
McGee Weiss, 39, also is familiar with the stretch of Pompano restaurants. Her favorite? Chick-fil-A, but it has been temporarily closed for renovations since March.
A Chick-fil-A spokesperson told the Sun Sentinel that the Pompano restaurant, which opened in 2009, has undergone remodeling in the kitchen and dining room. It is expected to reopen sometime this summer.
In lieu of its closure, resident Katrice Eason, 42, said she has eaten at the newly opened Dave’s Hot Chicken and appreciates its late hours.
“The seasoning was great and the customer service was actually really good,” she said. “So we’ll definitely be going back.”
Eason, a single mother of two kids, said she likes that the chicken restaurants in the area are still different from one another. And she’s a fan of the family atmospheres and the jobs they provide.
“It may be all chicken,” she said. “But it means growth.”
Added Pompano Beach city spokesperson Sandra King: “I’m not sure why that part of Pompano Beach has become the Coop Capital, but clearly, our residents make a great market. Otherwise, all these chicken spots wouldn’t be flocking here.”
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