The countdown is on for a new era in restaurant operations. Shaquille O'Neal-Owned Big Chicken and Blue Origin are teaming up to feed the imaginations of the next generation of explorers for the benefit of Earth and space chicken.
Blue Origin's nonprofit, Club for the Future, will partner with Big Chicken's leadership team and founder Shaquille O'Neal as Club Ambassadors to inspire and engage students. Club for the Future will launch new community outreach programs at Big Chicken restaurants, including inviting patrons to draw their vision of the future on Postcards to Space. Blue Origin will fly the postcards on a future New Shepard mission, stamp them “flown to space,” and return them to the creators.
“I'm proud to team up with Blue Origin to help inspire the next generation,” says O'Neal, who opened the first Big Chicken location in 2018. “This first-of-its-kind partnership is a game changer and I'm excited to take the chicken sandwich game to a whole new level.”
Big Chicken currently has locations in Las Vegas (Paradise Road and Tropicana Avenue); Los Angeles (Glendale and; Valencia); Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena and Renton); and in the Dayton, Ohio region, as well as metro-New York's UBS Arena, The Moody Center in Austin, ASU's Mullett Arena, Palm Springs' Acrisure Arena and on three Carnival Cruise ships. Expansion plans include Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Chicagoland, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Nashville and Greater Los Angeles.
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The chain will also open restaurants in Houston, Gilbert (Arizona), Kansas City, and St Louis in the next six weeks. Tailored for skilled restaurant owner/operator groups, the franchise investment has been designed to align with successful, multi-unit investors who want to become part of Shaquille's dream team.
For more information on the collaboration, visit https://www.bigchicken.com/blue-origin.
