SAUGUS — After the approval of Chick N More during a Board of Selectmen meeting, with the selectmen voting 5-0 in favor, the influx of chicken restaurants in town has become almost too much to bear.
As Chick N More is expected to open May 1 in the old Boston Market location at 168 Broadway, I wonder when the town will have its fill and suffer chicken fatigue.
The approval of Chick N More follows the openings of Wingstop and Dave’s Hot Chicken last year. In roughly a year and a half, we will have had about twice the amount of chicken-focused restaurants open.
WIth those three restaurants, Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters, KFC, Raising Cane’s (slated to open sometime this fall), and a rumored Popeye’s, there is no shortage of places to enjoy chicken of all kinds: sliced into tenders, rotisserie, in a sandwich, or in the form of wings.
I enjoy chicken. I eat it almost every day. But, I find the options in Saugus to be exhausting. How many different preparations of chicken can there be at these establishments, and perhaps more importantly, who wants all of them?
As more and more residential buildings continue to pop up around town and on Route 1, it seems the only counterbalance to this is restaurants that primarily serve chicken.
With the recent closures of Lendy’s and Michael’s in the Fellsway Plaza, I grow worried of not one, but two chicken restaurants opening within a stone’s throw of one another.
Will the ghost of the Square One Mall resurrect itself as a giant chicken restaurant?
Just how much chicken can Saugus stomach?
