A locally-owned Nashville hot chicken restaurant is expanding in Johnson County.
Mother Clucker is taking the former BurgerFi spot in Leawood’s Park Place for a late July or early August opening. Mother Clucker was an original tenant of Parlor food hall when it opened in the East Crossroads (1707 Locust St.) in 2018. A location opened at (5930 Nieman Road), Shawnee, a year ago.
Owners and chefs Derrick and Kylie Foster graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in New York, where they met and fell in love. They made frequent weekend trips to Nashville where they not only fell in love with the city, but Nashville’s hot chicken too. The duo married in Nashville in 2018 and named their son Nash. He is now four and they are expecting another child October. Derrick also has a 13-year-old son, Christian.
The new Leawood location (11635 Ash St.) will have the same menu as the other two restaurants.
How spicy do you want your chicken? Customers have six choices from OG plain (no heat) to Cluck Yeah (blazing) to What the Cluck! (no clucks given).
Then they choose a style: Comeback Sandwich (fried chicken breast, slaw, pickles and Cluck sauce on a bun), jumbo tenders, or wings.
For sides, it has crinkle fries and slaw.
Mother Clucker also offers Crazy Cluckin’ Shakes (Cap’n Crunch is the standard, along with a rotating flavor, currently strawberry Pop-Tarts).
The new Leawood location will also offer local beers and seltzers.
“We just felt like it was the perfect location. A good, family-friendly place and a good opportunity to pair beers with chicken,” Derrick Foster says.
Sheryl Vickers of Select Sites handled the negotiations for Mother Clucker. Matt Rau of CBRE represented Park Place.
BurgerFi closed Sunday after a decade in Park Place. The franchisee said he moved out of town.
BurgerFi was founded in early 2011 in south Florida. Its menu includes 100 percent Angus beef burgers, fresh-cut fries, beer-battered onion rings, shakes and frozen custard.
