Stroud's To Get Some Competition from Gus
 

Time for the two contestants to play chicken!

http://www.kansascity.com/news/busin...e21334215.html

Tennessee-based Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken is entering Stroud’s country with a new restaurant scheduled to open by early fall.

The local franchisees are taking a corner space at 2816 W. 47th Ave., Kansas City, Kan., in the former Fairway North Shopping Center, which is being revamped as NorthWood Shopping Center.

“They are the first new tenant in the rebranded shopping center. It says a lot about that area that it attracted a first-to-market concept,” said Devin Schuster, vice president at Lane4 Property Group, which is redeveloping the center.

Andrew Johnson, managing partner for the area franchise group, grew up on Gus’s in Memphis and describes it as “crispy, spicy and consistently good.”

So when the company announced expansion plans, he quickly signed up. He selected the Kansas City market, where he has family, and he moved here in January to begin scouting sites. The location on 47th Avenue is near Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que and Taco Republic, both in Kansas City, Kan., and Lulu’s Asian Bistro on the Westwood side of the street, all strong operations offering different cuisine.

Gus’s plans a late summer or early fall opening in the 3,400-square-foot spot, which will have a patio. The restaurant will have about 40 employees.

The iconic fried chicken chain now has 10 locations and is expanding. Along with the new Kansas City, Kan., restaurant, it will open locations in St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Knoxville and Detroit, this year and in 2016. Once it “proves itself” at the new Kansas City, Kan., location it could open another restaurant in the metro, company officials said.

The first Gus’s opened in 1984, serving chicken with “just enough cayenne pepper to let you know it’s there,” according to one reviewer. Other menu items include baked beans, fried green tomatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried okra and slaw. Gus’s doesn’t serve fast food, so customers should be prepared to wait or order ahead.

It also will offer some competition for Kansas City’s iconic chicken restaurant, Stroud’s. But Mike Donegan — owner of the Northland Stroud’s and partner in the other area locations — said there’s enough business for both operations.

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I saw the remodeling they did in that shopping center. It looks nice now compared to the absolute dump it was before.

I will give it a try. I live less than a mile from Strouds Northland so it will have to be damn good for me to make that trip and not go to Joe's.

Good. People that think Stroud's chicken is good must have never tasted fried chicken before.

I'm pretty sure I would hate whatever it is you consider to be "good".

Strouds is good but I do love that cayenne that Gus's puts on their fried chicken. Two different tastes. I'll go to both. This is awesome news.

Every other specialty chicken place I've been to has been better. I went with a group of people last time to Strouds, it was all of their first time, and my first time in years. None of them were real impressed.

One place that is good, that I'm sure nobody has heard of, Sneaky's Chicken in Sioux City Iowa. It's a dirty dirty joint. Their mascot is a racoon that hangs out by the grease dumpster out back by the ravine. It's good dirty shit though.

Gus's is the shit.

I haven't been to Stroud's in forever, but Gus' is the second best fried chicken I've ever had.

We have Gus's in Austin.

Its spicy, and its goddamned delicious.

That said, pooping kinda sucks the next day, but totes worth it.

Is the Stroud's in Fairway comparable to the one up North? I ate at the Fairway one last Xmas and wasn't too impressed. Haven't eaten at the one up north in 20+ years but I remember loving it.

Strouds location on 135th in OP was a festering open aids wound at a salt sandblasting party

Probably will get their ass kicked

I was hoping Gus Frang had returned.

Oh well...

Strouds is ridiculously overrated. The best fried chicken I've ever had used to be at Main Street Inn in Grandview. Then the cook left and went to Frankie and Johnnies in Belton. I think he's retired now.

RC's in Martin City still blows away Strouds.