Restaurants offer the full menu during all operating hours. In March 2022, Bojangles announced that it would open its first 10 locations in New Jersey. The announcement came on the same day Taco Johns announced it would significantly boost its Central Ohio presence, as well as already-planned expansions into the market by Sheetz and Del Taco.
On March 5, 2021, Bojangles announced a planned expansion into Columbus, Ohio, its first Ohio location, to begin later that year.
On the same day, Bojangles released a video announcing a partnership with Dale Earnhardt Jr., the first celebrity to say the words, "It's Bo Time." On August 3, 2020, the company released a statement saying that it was dropping the apostrophe from its name. In December 2019, Bojangles and Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores came to an agreement to add 40 Bojangles locations at Love's Travel Stops in Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi – all new states for Bojangles – over the following ten years. On January 28, 2019, Bojangles was acquired by the Jordan Company and Durational Capital Management (making it a privately held company) with Bojangles shareholders receiving $16.10 a share after their approval on January 14, 2019. Bojangles Hard Sweet Tea for sale at grocery store In January 2019, Randy Kibler was replaced by Jose Armario as the chief executive officer and brought with him Brian Unger as the chief operating officer. In April 2015, the company filed with the US regulator for an initial public offering of its common stock, expecting to raise $372 million. The company's 600th restaurant opened on July 8, 2014, on Galleria Road in Charlotte with Charlotte mayor Dan Clodfelter cutting the celebratory ribbon. In 2012, Bojangles began sponsoring the NASCAR race Bojangles' Southern 500, and opened another college campus restaurant at UNC Greensboro. Advertisement for Bojangles' at Durham Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina (1989) In August 2011, Falfurrias sold Bojangles to Boston-based Advent International, another private equity firm, after a competitive bidding process with other investors. The first airport location was opened in 2008 at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The company also purchased naming rights to the original Charlotte Coliseum on Independence Boulevard in Charlotte.īojangles was purchased again in 2007 by Falfurrias Capital Partners, a private equity firm. The restaurant started its first college campus location on the grounds of Central Piedmont Community College in 2005. īojangles expanded throughout the 1990s and 2000s, with the 300th location opened in 2003. The company was sold to a group of investors headed by the former Wendy's executive Joe Drury and financed by FMAC in 1998. Campbell was subsequently replaced by CEO Jim Peterson. In 1994, the company attempted a public offering. The company was then headed by the former KFC executive, Dick Campbell. In 1990, Horn and Hardart sold most of its interest to Sienna Partners and Interwest Partners. Part of this growth was fueled by acquisitions including the Florida-based Biscuits chain. ĭuring Horn and Hardart's ownership, the chain grew rapidly and expanded to 335 restaurants including 100 in Florida. Jack Fulk sold the Bojangles concept to the now-defunct Horn & Hardart Company of New York in 1981.īojangles received fame in 1989 because its restaurants remained open when Hurricane Hugo struck the Carolinas when most other fast-food restaurants had closed. In the following year, the first franchised restaurant began operations.
The first Bojangles location opened in 1977 in Charlotte. In July 2023, the company announced plans to open 20 restaurants on the West coast, starting in Las Vegas. Its home state of North Carolina has the largest number of locations. states ( Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia) with planned expansions into New Jersey. īojangles has previously franchised restaurants in Grand Cayman Island, Jamaica, Honduras, Mexico, Ireland and China. The company was founded in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977 by Jack Fulk and Richard Thomas. Bojangles OpCo, LLC., doing business as Bojangles (known as Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits until 2020), is an American regional chain of fast food restaurants that specializes in Cajun-seasoned fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits and primarily serves the Southeastern United States.
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