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Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants
Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants The COVID-19 pandemic is causing more trouble for family-owned restaurants already struggling financially, but now have to contend with a nationwide chicken shortage as demand for the product grows. With Americans turning to comfort foods during the pandemic and ordering more chicken dishes and sandwiches from area restaurants during stay-at-home mandates, poultry producers have been struggling to keep pace. The poultry producers were also stretched extra thin when many meat processing plants were forced to close at the beginning of the pandemic due to COVID-19 outbreaks, while some chicken…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
Colonel Who? Bonchon Chicken Moves Into Fairfield County Colonel Who? Bonchon Chicken Moves Into Fairfield County
Colonel Who? Bonchon Chicken Moves Into Fairfield County Who can remember a time when chicken wings weren’t on a menu? Started as a bar appetizer in the 1960s, wings are now the star of the show. And they certainly shine bright at Bonchon’s. The Korean-based and internationally loved fried chicken purveyor has opened its first franchise in Fairfield County at 1565 Post Road. The grand opening was held on Oct. 7. Bonchon has four other locations in Connecticut: West Harford, Manchester, Storrs and New Haven.  Leo Chung, a partner and head manager of Bonchon’s in Fairfield believes the Connecticut shoreline town was the right spot for his second …

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz