Friday, July 21, 2006

Cluck U Chicken!!!!


I'm sorry however I find great humor in this, lol!While in Oakhurst NJ this week I happened apon "Cluck U Chicken" a small but growing chain serving chicken amd wings. I have to give them a two thumbs up for having the best tasting chicken I have had in a long while!

Cluck-U Chicken ® was started by Robert Ilvento, a 20 year old college sophomore who never made it to his junior year. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. In 1990 JP Haddad joined Robert Ilvento and opened the 3rd Cluck-U-Chicken store near the University of Maryland, in College Park, MD. Later, JP purchased Robert's share of the College Park business and partnered with his brother Simon. Although the two brothers had engineering degrees, they saw this opportunity to become self-employed, for the first time, and never looked back. They began assisting Robert in building the Cluck-U-Chicken ® system.

Seeing how successful JP and Simon were in running the College Park unit, four of their managers opened Cluck-U-Chicken stores elsewhere in Maryland during the next five years.

By the year 2000, twenty Cluck-U-Chicken ® units were operating in five states. In that year, JP acquired the right to develop the Cluck-U-Chicken ® franchise system nationally, while Robert turned his attention to promoting Cluck-U Chicken branded products outside the franchise restaurant system.
JP and Simon Haddad have developed new products and a distinctive Cluck-U-Chicken ® look. By the end of 2005, Seventy-Five Cluck-U Chicken restaurants are expected to be open, including 25 in Maryland "the Home Office of Cluck-U Chicken Company".

Their goal is to have a Cluck-U-Chicken ® restaurant near every college campus and in every city in the U.S., and later, the world.

For more visit http://www.cluckuchicken.com

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