Cathalena E. Burch Missouri-born Chick-in Waffle opened its first restaurant outside its Kansas City homebase in a former midtown Tucson Burger King on Friday, May 19.
Chick-in Waffle, 5524 E. Grant Road, is the first chicken and waffles restaurant in Tucson since May's Counter Chicken & Waffles on East Speedway closed in 2018. Several Tucson restaurants including The Drunken Chicken on North Fourth Avenue serve chicken and waffles, but none of them focuses on it exclusively.
Alazzeh said he had been leary at first about opening a franchise in Tucson given how far it is from Kansas City. The couple joked that they would open a chicken and waffles restaurant once the baby came, Alazzeh said. They curated a menu and designed a logo, but it wasn't until after Mia was born that Alazzeh decided to take the leap.