Dave’s Hot Chicken Wants to Be the Next Blaze Pizza
- Dave’s Hot Chicken plans to expand to hundreds of locations
- Celebrity investors include Maria Shriver, Michael Strahan
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The investors behind Blaze Pizza are pivoting to fried chicken.
A group including Maria Shriver, Boston Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner, actor Samuel L. Jackson and TV personality Michael Strahan are promoting Dave’s Hot Chicken in Los Angeles, and they’re betting it can be taken national quickly with franchising. That follows the blueprint set by Blaze, which counts LeBron James as an investor. The new chain started as a pop-up location in a parking lot in 2017.