Cluck-U Chicken

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Cluck-U Chicken (also known as "Cluck University") is a Fast food restaurant which specializes in serving chicken. Most of their locations are in the states of Maryland and New Jersey, but there are locations in several other states as well. Most of the locations are near or on college campuses.

1 History
2 Products
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Cluck-U Chicken was started by Robert Ilvento in 1985 when he was a sophomore in college. The first location was in New Brunswick, New Jersey at Rutgers University. However, the most famous store was opened in 1990 when JP Haddad joined up with Ilvento and opened the restaurant in downtown College Park, Maryland, near the University of Maryland, College Park.

Later, Haddad, and his brother Simon, purchased Ilvento's share of the College Park location. Together, they built new locations, all in Maryland. In 2000, JP Haddad acquired the rights to develop the franchise nationally, while Ilvento began to promote the business. The goal of the founders is to "Have a Cluck-U Chicken restaurant in every college campus and in every city in the U.S., and later, the world. The Towson University campus was blessed with Cluck-U Chicken during the 2006/2007 school year. Ever since its opening, it has been an instant success. With an ideal location right outside of the university and across the street from the infamous bars at Towson, Cluck-U upholds a gold-mine in the making. The late hours and promising food ensure customers that they will get what they want, when they want." ^[1]

[edit] Products

Cluck-U Chicken (aka "Cluck") is probably most famous for their "wingers" as well as their wing sauces, which come in various different varieties: including "Honey Hickory"; and the infamous Thermometer scale of "Mild"; "Atomic"; "Nuclear"; "Traditional death";"Thermo-Nuclear" ("Thermo"); " and "911" which has been banned from most restaurants in New Jersey.^{[citation needed]} At some locations where the "911" sauce is served, customers must sign a liability waiver before consuming it. ^[2]

Other products include chicken sandwiches (or "Cluckwiches"), "hot bites" and various forms of fried chicken and chicken fingers. "Sugar Bees" and "Honey Bees" have been cited as perfect companions to a hot winger meal because of their heat zapping capabilities, and their hot bites have been reported as a snack food without equal. It is customary to order them in multiples of six, which is the ideal amount of chicken to use per container of blue cheese sauce, which is colloquially referred to as "crack" at the Morristown, NJ location. It is still unknown as to why Cinnamon-Sugar Bees are not part of the repertoire.^[3]

Regulars of the chain are familiar with the popular "Banilla" flavored milkshake. The flavor was created when the chain claimed to have a regular Banana flavor, when the result is more vanilla than anything else.

Residents of NYC are sadly deprived of a Cluck-U franchise, but it is hoped that one will open soon