Wisconsin group bringing Mad Chicken fast casual restaurant to downtown Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — The chicken restaurant trend is alive and well after nearly two-and-a-half years of the Covid-19 pandemic and ready to expand into Downtown Pittsburgh.

While western Pennsylvania has its own standard bearer among a new wave of restaurants focused on Nashville-style hot chicken in Mero Restaurant Group’s ChiKN, which started in Oakland and expanded to Cranberry as a compliment to the company’s Stack’d Burgers & Beer restaurants, a new Wisconsin operator called Mad Chicken is also expanding in the region.

The first Mad Chicken opened at Ross Park Mall last year, said Aldo El Shatby, a partner in the ownership group of the restaurant, which is based in Milwaukee.

Now, he said he’s working to open the second location of Mad Chicken in the Pittsburgh area downtown in August.

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