Franchisee poised to open Layne’s Chicken Fingers restaurant on the South Side

Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times

March 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM·1 min read

This article originally appeared in Pittsburgh Business Times.

Whatever the South Side’s challenges of late, East Carson is proving to be a big draw for chicken restaurants.

The latest coming to the South Side is Layne’s Chicken Fingers, the College Station, Texas, restaurant branded by its space helmet-wearing mascot, Astro Chicken. Layne’s opened its first restaurant in the Pittsburgh area on Forbes Avenue in Oakland last fall.

The new restaurant is coming to a storefront at 1210 East Carson St., where signage for the restaurant is now posted, along a stretch that has also had new entries by Nashville hot chicken restaurants that include Mad Chicken, based out of Wisconsin, and local Bird on the Run.

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