Bojangles building new $1M restaurant in this shopping plaza northeast of Fort Worth
Construction on a new 3,170-square-foot, $1 million Bojangles restaurant in Bedford is scheduled to begin at the end of April. This will be the North Carolina-based fried chicken restaurant chain’s fifth location in the Fort Worth area.
The new restaurant will be built at 1937 Airport Fwy., in a shopping plaza just off of the westbound access road to Texas 121, and is scheduled to be completed in October.
Bojangles had planned multiple locations around Fort Worth, opening its first area restaurant in Euless in June 2023. A month later, its Lancaster location opened. As promised, the fried chicken restaurant chain opened a third location in Little Elm in October 2023 and a fourth restaurant earlier this year in far south Fort Worth.
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Bojangles has been around since 1977 and are famous for their Cajun-inspired fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits. The company was created and named by Jack Fulk after the song, “Mr. Bojangles.”
While known for their bone-in chicken at their east coast restaurants, Bojangles is streamlining its menu in new markets such as Texas serving only boneless chicken. This means that chicken tenders are the name of the game in Texas going forward.
Other Bojangles options include Bo-Berry biscuits, peach cobbler, salads, lemonade and milkshakes.
Bojangles had three restaurants in Fort worth, Haltom City in 1980s
A Bojangles continues its North Texas expansion, it isn’t the first time the fried chicken chain has staked a claim here. In 1984, Bojangles operated three restaurants in Fort Worth and one in Haltom City:
4355 East Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth — Now an Auto Zone
2621 Hemphill St., Fort Worth — Now Tacos La Banqueta
7419 Camp Bowie W. Blvd., Fort Worth — Now Cancun Mexican Restaurant
5600 East Belknap St., Haltom City — Now a vacant building
A coupon for a $9.99 combo that came with a 16-piece fried chicken box and 12 biscuits can be found in the pages of the Star-Telegram’s newspaper from December 27, 1984. At Bojangles today, a 12-piece fried chicken box with six biscuits costs $25.99.
By 1985, Bojangles had expanded to include three locations in Dallas and one in Arlington at 818 N. Collins St. But several years later, all of Bojangles Texas stores closed.
Its unclear why Bojangles pulled out of Texas, but the restaurant chain’s comeback has gained traction.
