Slim Chickens @ 1515 Hampton

chriss752 · PostDec 06, 2020#12020-12-06T02:43+00:00

The Midas Construction bid page includes a project known as "Slim Chickens Hampton". This will replace the Denny's at 1515 Hampton.

Demolition of existing restaurant, construction of new 2700 SF restaurant including site work and paving.

After looking at building permits for 1515 Hampton, a permit was applied for on November 14th but not yet issued. Seems to meet Slim Chickens' plans some.

COMMERCIAL NET LEASE REALTY LP

Building

11/14/2020

RESTAURANT

$1,325,000.00

CONSTRUCT NEW COMMERCIAL BUILDING PER PLANS

Slim Chickens currently has one Metro area location, Troy Missouri, and plans to add many more here overtime. For those who don't know, they're similar to Raising Canes or Zaxby's.

http://planroom.midas.build

quincunx · PostMar 19, 2021#22021-03-19T16:10+00:00

$1.325M building permit issued.

OnTheEdge · PostMar 29, 2021#32021-03-29T19:28+00:00

Noticed earlier today that the construction fence is up. End of an era.

dweebe · PostMay 06, 2021#42021-05-06T19:07+00:00

Ate at the one in Troy MO last weekend out of curiosity while up there. Nothing earth shaking, typical fast food. Think Chick-fil-A but add in wings.

They'll just crush it with the zoo visitor crowd.

pattimagee · PostSep 15, 2021#52021-09-15T15:42+00:00

The Slim Chickens had a line down the street the other day and the Commercial building, I'm assuming, behind it is moving along. (snapped while I was stopped in traffic on Hampton)

moorlander · PostSep 15, 2021#62021-09-15T16:47+00:00

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OnTheEdge · PostSep 15, 2021#72021-09-15T16:49+00:00

^^Saw this Monday. It was pretty nuts. I believe only the drive thru was open. Traffic was backed up out into the street and they had a guy out there directing traffic.

jshank83 · PostSep 30, 2021#82021-09-30T17:34+00:00

Sitting in the drive thru now. I haven’t moved in 10 minutes. So it isn’t long because of huge demand. It’s long because it’s so badly backed up that it is long by default.

EDIT: it was pretty good. I would go back once they have more time to get things in order.

It looked like they shut the drive thru about 2 cars behind me, which I don’t really understand either.

RockChalkSTL · PostSep 30, 2021#92021-09-30T20:46+00:00

I went once on a Friday night, and it took over an hour to go through the drive-thru.

But the food was really good -- in my opinion, better than Raising Cane's, so I went back another time, during the day when I saw that I would be just the fourth or fifth car in line. My wait was still about 20 minutes, if not longer.

I'm not sure what takes them so long in that drive-thru, but they kind of need to get that figured out. The food is good, and it's reasonably priced, but the time it takes to receive the food is absolutely prohibitive.

chris fuller · PostSep 30, 2021#102021-09-30T21:50+00:00

Personally to much brown food and vinegar I try to mix it up with a few more colors apple/pear/orange with the kids
But anyway no walk up? no outdoor eating?

dweebe · PostSep 30, 2021#112021-09-30T22:03+00:00

KansasCitian wrote: ↑
Sep 30, 2021
I went once on a Friday night, and it took over an hour to go through the drive-thru.

But the food was really good -- in my opinion, better than Raising Cane's, so I went back another time, during the day when I saw that I would be just the fourth or fifth car in line. My wait was still about 20 minutes, if not longer.

I'm not sure what takes them so long in that drive-thru, but they kind of need to get that figured out. The food is good, and it's reasonably priced, but the time it takes to receive the food is absolutely prohibitive.

Short staffing. The Popeyes in Brentwood is only open 11-7. The Webster Groves DQ is closed 3 days a week now. All the Schnucks just rolled closing time back from 10pm to 9pm. The Jimmy Johns in Maplewood closed for good because they couldn't hire enough staff. 1/3rd of the stands are closed at Busch Stadium and they're slow as heck. Expect a disaster at Blues games because they can't get anyone hired.

I could go on and on.

dbInSouthCity · PostSep 30, 2021#122021-09-30T22:13+00:00

I was told we didn’t need to pay those people above min wage because robots could do their jobs, well where the f are the robots?!?

jshank83 · PostOct 01, 2021#132021-10-01T03:56+00:00

dweebe wrote: ↑
Sep 30, 2021
KansasCitian wrote: ↑
Sep 30, 2021
I went once on a Friday night, and it took over an hour to go through the drive-thru.

But the food was really good -- in my opinion, better than Raising Cane's, so I went back another time, during the day when I saw that I would be just the fourth or fifth car in line. My wait was still about 20 minutes, if not longer.

I'm not sure what takes them so long in that drive-thru, but they kind of need to get that figured out. The food is good, and it's reasonably priced, but the time it takes to receive the food is absolutely prohibitive.
Short staffing. The Popeyes in Brentwood is only open 11-7. The Webster Groves DQ is closed 3 days a week now. All the Schnucks just rolled closing time back from 10pm to 9pm. The Jimmy Johns in Maplewood closed for good because they couldn't hire enough staff. 1/3rd of the stands are closed at Busch Stadium and they're slow as heck. Expect a disaster at Blues games because they can't get anyone hired.

I could go on and on.

I don’t buy short staffed. At least 4 people were sitting outside taking drive thru orders which meant most of the time they were doing nothing because no one was moving. 3 of those could have been inside helping. They also have another few directing traffic which probably isn’t needed. I did appreciate one gentleman going and getting peoples drinks from the window and walking them out to the cars as they waited though. I didn’t expect it but it was a nice touch.

Just seemed a like lack of resource management more than anything.

Food was way better than raising caines. But I am anti RC because I don’t know how your run a chicken strip restaurant and not have more sauce options. It makes no sense.

Trololzilla · PostOct 01, 2021#142021-10-01T09:12+00:00

Still need a Bojangles and a Zaxby's in town.

dweebe · PostOct 01, 2021#152021-10-01T13:09+00:00

Trololzilla wrote: ↑
Oct 01, 2021
Still need a Bojangles and a Zaxby's in town.

We always get Zaxbys on the way down to Florida. The kids can get chicken strips and I find their salads are pretty good.

PostOct 01, 2021#162021-10-01T13:39+00:00

jshank83 wrote: ↑
Oct 01, 2021
dweebe wrote: ↑
Sep 30, 2021
KansasCitian wrote: ↑
Sep 30, 2021
I went once on a Friday night, and it took over an hour to go through the drive-thru.

But the food was really good -- in my opinion, better than Raising Cane's, so I went back another time, during the day when I saw that I would be just the fourth or fifth car in line. My wait was still about 20 minutes, if not longer.

I'm not sure what takes them so long in that drive-thru, but they kind of need to get that figured out. The food is good, and it's reasonably priced, but the time it takes to receive the food is absolutely prohibitive.
Short staffing. The Popeyes in Brentwood is only open 11-7. The Webster Groves DQ is closed 3 days a week now. All the Schnucks just rolled closing time back from 10pm to 9pm. The Jimmy Johns in Maplewood closed for good because they couldn't hire enough staff. 1/3rd of the stands are closed at Busch Stadium and they're slow as heck. Expect a disaster at Blues games because they can't get anyone hired.

I could go on and on.
I don’t buy short staffed. At least 4 people were sitting outside taking drive thru orders which meant most of the time they were doing nothing because no one was moving. 3 of those could have been inside helping. They also have another few directing traffic which probably isn’t needed. I did appreciate one gentleman going and getting peoples drinks from the window and walking them out to the cars as they waited though. I didn’t expect it but it was a nice touch.

Just seemed a like lack of resource management more than anything.

Food was way better than raising caines. But I am anti RC because I don’t know how your run a chicken strip restaurant and not have more sauce options. It makes no sense.

What you're seeing are managers from other locations working the parking lot/drive thru/running orders while not getting their hands truly dirty in the back in the kitchen.

I guarantee they're stealing from Chick-Fil-A's playbook. Chick-Fil-A does exactly that and requires management/headquarters personnel to travel to new stores to help them open. But they never end up back in the hot messy kitchen and prep lines.

gone corporate · PostOct 01, 2021#172021-10-01T21:11+00:00

^I appreciate getting them doing customer service and staying out of the kitchen. Sure beats having some visiting white collar from HQ pretending to be a fry cook as well as an account rep. Keep them doing the grunt work and avoiding the skilled labor.

jshank83 · PostOct 02, 2021#182021-10-02T04:06+00:00

gone corporate wrote: ↑
Oct 01, 2021
^I appreciate getting them doing customer service and staying out of the kitchen. Sure beats having some visiting white collar from HQ pretending to be a fry cook as well as an account rep. Keep them doing the grunt work and avoiding the skilled labor.

FWIW. The people working outside the day I was there were in no way white collar workers from corporate. Most were probably college aged and I could tell were new workers. MAYBE two of them could have been from another location and/or been managers but I don’t really give them a pass. I’ve worked in the food industry and the manager IMO should be able to do any job to fill in as needed. I know it’s not always the case but it should be. Especially when it was the mess it was. Again, I know it’s early and there are kinks to be worked out but it just didn’t seem well run from my perspective. Especially since it seems to be an ongoing theme of being super slow.