Brown's Chicken and Pasta

I became curious about trying Brown's Chicken after learning that Portillo's owns it. Love the buttermilk crust to the chicken. But underneath, bland, dry chicken. I also ordered the Italian Beef/Sausage combo, but Portillo's does it much better.

I loooove Brown's Chicken.  I grew up eating Brown's.  Fond, fond memories.  Either way, their chicken is just the darn best of the fast food bunch a million times over.  Love the slaw, fries, corn fritters, biscuits are good too.  Fresh, large pieces of tasty chicken.  Or usually large pieces.  Mmm mmm.

I've never actually been inside this location.  My hubs will call over, place an order and pick up.  Key is calling ahead and placing an order because if you walk in and order, it does take a very long time.  Their food is hot and fresh when you get it, but prepare to wait.  The breasts at this location seem to be shrinking in size too.  Make all your jokes now, I left the door open for ya.

And, key to calling ahead is to find out if they are out of chicken.  Yes, the last several times we've called, they're either out of wings or out of breasts.  How on earth does a chicken place run out of chicken?!  

Brown's in general gets a big 5 stars from me, but consistently running out of chicken parts is enough to get me to write a review and only give this location 3 stars.

First let me say I love Browns Chicken.  Fond memories from childhood of the mushrooms and chicken livers as well as the chicken.  Went to this location and ordered a 3 piece white meat with a side and presented a valid coupon that ran in the Chicago Tribune for a free small order of mushrooms.  I was told by the employee that he had "given too many free orders away" and decided to end the promotion the day before.  And besides "it's only $3".  I walked out and will never go to this location of Browns Chicken again.  BEWARE - this is a SKETCHY FRANCHISEE!!!!!  DO NOT PATRONIZE!!!!