600 Playhouse Aly, Ste 504, Pasadena, CA 91101
Approximately 95-100% of the Dave’s Hot Chicken restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Dave’s Hot Chicken began in 2017 as a parking-lot pop-up in East Hollywood, California, and is now headquartered at 600 Playhouse Alley in Pasadena. The company manages a single concept centered on Nashville-style hot chicken tenders and sliders. Roark Capital Group is its parent company. The system includes restaurants operated by franchisees as well as company-related operators. Its footprint extends across the United States and Canada. Dave’s operates as a fast casual concept serving lunch and dinner. The cuisine is Chicken. A representative restaurant has about 80 seats and occupies approximately 2,000 square feet, although inline, freestanding, drive-through and urban formats may use different layouts and seating plans.
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Opening-year location research traces Dave’s Hot Chicken’s selected U.S. history to 2017 in Los Angeles. RestaurantData’s archived house development reports join the history from March 2021, followed by broader multi-state concentrations in 2023–2024 and 2025–2026.
For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.
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15+ states with signals
35+ states with signals
35+ states with signals
Selected location history and opening signals, 2017–2026.
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Vector readout: The California-only 2017–2020 opening-year trail is followed by 80+ selected signals across 15+ states in 2021–2022. Both the 2023–2024 and 2025–2026 windows contain 150+ selected signals across 35+ states or more. The 2023–2024 selection also includes the District of Columbia.
The 2026 segment is partial and includes dated development reports that may describe planned restaurants. The early California trail uses opening-year research; house reporting begins in 2021.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived RestaurantData house reports draw on state filings, building permits and regional news. Supporting location research contributes opening-year attributes. The 2017–2020 portion uses opening-year research, and the later history combines both sources. Report years and opening years are kept distinct.
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Source: RestaurantData archived U.S. development reports and supporting restaurant-location research. Headquarters, franchisee offices, unrelated namesakes, renovations, transfers and unresolved addresses are excluded. Signal counts of 10 or more are rounded down to tens; counts from 5 to 9 use that range. State bands of 5 or more are rounded down to multiples of 5. Smaller counts are shown directly. The District of Columbia is identified separately.
The latest included dated evidence is 2026. The 2026 segment is partial. Development reports may describe planned restaurants. The six examples use the date basis shown on each card. A report year is not necessarily an opening year, and location verification dates are not used as opening dates. Historical locations may have closed.
The complete arc uses the combined research view. Opening-year attributes provide the early history, followed by both sources from 2021. Markers identify years with selected dated evidence; connecting lines are illustrative between those years. Coverage varies across jurisdictions and years. These selections do not represent complete opening totals, current operating units or net growth. Gaps alone do not establish a pause or contraction.
Last updated November 2026.
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Historical reference: Dave’s Hot Chicken in the May 24–31, 2026 development report on RestaurantChains.net.
For additional historical addresses and source details, see the Dave’s Hot Chicken location archive on RestaurantChains.net.
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