Dave’s Hot Chicken Rolls Out Food Truck; Serves Up Signature Sliders and Tenders at Coachella for Third Straight Year
Los Angeles, CA (RestaurantNews.com) Dave’s Hot Chicken has nearly 300 locations across the country , now, one that can come to fans wherever they are. The company announced the launch of its first food truck, with the capacity to serve hundreds of Dave’s famous tenders and sliders, along with all the sides which have made Dave’s an international sensation.
Coachella attendees can catch the Dave’s Hot Chicken food truck, which will be passing out limited edition trucker caps, on both Coachella weekends, Thursday through Sunday, at the Festival Campgrounds from 7am-3pm and 7pm-2am. For those inside the festival, Dave’s will also be serving up their craveable tenders and sliders at a food booth in Indio Central Market next to second stage from 1pm-11pm Friday through Sunday.
The company first teased its food truck during the Rolling Loud festival earlier this year at Hollywood Park, dropping limited merch and unlimited flavor.
Dave’s Hot Chicken’s first food truck is owned and operated by Vahe Kallibjian. Vahe’s history with the company tracks back to the company’s original brick-and-mortar restaurant in 2018 where he served as manager, before becoming the founding group’s restaurant developer, and now partner. Vahe brings decades of guerrilla roots event marketing expertise with an intimate understanding of the Dave’s Hot Chicken business to his ownership and operation of Dave’s first food truck.
Those interested in booking the Dave’s Hot Chicken food truck, bringing the most craveable hot chicken on the planet to wherever they are, can visit the Food Truck home page for all the details.
“Whenever we post on social media to our millions of followers, we get hundreds of people in the comments asking us to bring a Dave’s to their hometown,” said Dave’s Hot Chicken’s CEO, Bill Phelps. “With the launch of the Dave’s Hot Chicken food truck, people can now do just that.”
Dave’s Hot Chicken specializes in Hot Chicken Sliders, Tenders and Bites, along with sides of house-made Kale Slaw, creamy Mac & Cheese and crispy, seasoned French Fries. Offered at seven spice levels ranging from No Spice to Reaper™ (which requires a signed waiver for those who dare), each piece of juicy, hand-breaded chicken is spiced-to-order. In early 2024, the company also introduced Dave’s NOT Chicken, the brand’s take on hot, juicy and crispy Cauliflower Sliders and Cauliflower Bites.
About Dave’s Hot Chicken
In a modern-day American dream story, three childhood friends, Chef Dave Kopushyan, Arman Oganesyan and Tommy Rubenyan, scraped together $900 to launch Dave’s Hot Chicken in a parking lot, portable fryers and folding tables in tow, in 2017. Dave’s Hot Chicken quickly took off, opening an East Hollywood brick-and-mortar restaurant shortly after, with support from Tommy’s brother, Gary. In 2019, the team struck a deal with Wetzel’s Pretzels co-founder and former CEO, Bill Phelps, to begin franchising the Dave’s Hot Chicken concept, with Billboard’s Artist of the Decade, Drake, investing in the brand as well. The company has sold the rights to more than 700 franchise locations in the U.S., Middle East and Canada and will open 90-plus locations this year. Harkening back to an Eater LA blog that helped propel early interest in the brand, the company’s mission is to “blow their minds.”
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