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Rise Southern Biscuits and Chicken will open first Fort Worth location

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Award-winning biscuits and chicken are coming to Fort Worth, via Rise Southern Biscuits and Righteous Chicken, a rapidly expanding breakfast and lunch concept from North Carolina that is making a splashy Dallas-Fort Worth debut.

The Fort Worth restaurant will open at 7064 Blue Mound Rd. in summer 2024.

According to a release, it's from husband-and-wife franchisees Ashwin Reddy and Isha Vedire, who are also opening a location in Dallas at Victory Park. These represent the first two of 20 Rise locations the couple has planned for DFW.

"As a local owner, I am thrilled to bring the best-dang biscuits to Dallas," Reddy says in a statement. "I know this community will love the scratch-made Southern breakfast biscuits and Righteous fried chicken sandwiches at lunchtime."

Rise is open for breakfast and lunch and serves Southern Biscuits, Righteous Chicken boxes and sandwiches, sweet treats, sides, and coffee.

Their flaky buttermilk biscuits are made from scratch throughout the day and are filled with savory ingredients ranging from crispy bacon and sausage to fried green tomatoes and their famous Righteous Chicken.

Breakfast boxes featuring grits and potatoes topped with proteins and sauces round out the breakfast offerings.

Lunchtime offering include the signature Righteous Chicken in a box with sides or at the center of many creative sandwich options where the chicken is sauced and topped, such as their sandwich with "Boom Boom" sauce and pickles.

Their signature side is Tots, in regular or Cheddar version. They also serve Counter Culture Coffee both hot and iced, and desserts such as a glazed blueberry biscuit and biscuit cinnamon rolls.

The release describes the concept as "tech-forward," with online ordering and pickup from heated food lockers that Reddy says makes the process fun and seamless.

But the restaurants will also include limited seating for in-restaurant dining.

Rise was originally founded in 2012 by Culinary Institute of American trained Chef Tom Ferguson in Durham, North Carolina. This is not the first time Rise has entered the DFW market. The concept premiered in Dallas-Fort Worth in April 2017 in Allen, back when it was known as Rise Biscuits & Doughnuts. It was rebranded in 2019.

Ferguson rebooted the concept, cutting back on the doughnuts and changing the name, which gave it a second life. Sadly, he died in 2022, but the concept has persevered, and currently has locations across North Carolina, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and California.

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Luscious doughnut shop Duck Donuts makes Fort Worth debut

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A decadent new doughnut shop is coming to Fort Worth: Duck Donuts, a North Carolina-based chain known for serving doughnuts made to order, will open a shop at 6387 Camp Bowie Blvd. #A within the Ridglea Plaza Shopping Center in Fort Worth.

According to a release, the shop will open on Saturday December 21 at 7 am.

Duck Donuts opened its first locations in 2007 in the beach resort towns of Duck and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with the intention to create an oasis for vacationers. They're now headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and began franchising in 2013, with more than 150 locally owned and operated shops across 26 states and international locations. There was previously a DFW location in Addison on Belt Line Road that opened in 2020 but it did not survive the pandemic.

The Fort Worth shop is owned and operated by husband-and-wife Justin and Morgan Thomas.

“We are delighted to be opening in Fort Worth,” Justin says in a statement. “The community has been patiently waiting for us to open our doors, and now we cannot wait to sprinkle happiness to all with our warm, delicious and made-to-order doubhnuts.”

The 1,035-square-foot shop reflects the franchise’s reimagined design which gives a modern twist on their iconic beach theme and family-friendly atmosphere. Upon entering the store, customers are greeted by the aroma of warm, light vanilla cake doughnuts.

Customers can create their own combination by choosing from coatings, toppings, and drizzles, including traditional favorites such as chocolate icing with sprinkles and more adventurous creations such as maple icing with bacon.

Key to their appeal is the viewing area where children and adults alike can watch their doughnuts being made.

Many of their flavors have a beachy theme such as the Beach, a cake doughnut with vanilla icing dusted with cinnamon sugar; the Sunrise with lemon icing and raspberry drizzle; and the Beach Ball with vanilla icing, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle.

They rotate in seasonal offerings such as the current lineup of mint-flavored flavors including chocolate icing with mint buttercream. The doughnuts themselves are limited to vanilla and chocolate cake; the flavors come primarily from icing.

In addition to doughnuts, the Fort Worth location will serve coffee, doughnut breakfast sandwiches, doughnut sundaes — in which a doughnut is topped with ice cream and syrup — plus frozen beverages and milkshakes.

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