Babe’s Old Fashioned Food serves up wings and fried chicken at six area locations. Credit: Facebook / Babe's Old Fashioned Food

San Antonio-based burger joint Babe’s Old Fashioned Food is planning to expand with a new fried chicken concept, Babe’s Crispy Chicken.

The mini-chain is planning a new build at 12020 O’Connor Road, a Nov. 16 filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation notes. The 1,050-square-foot eatery will offer a small amount of indoor seating as well as a drive-thru, Babe’s representative Tara Wanek told the Current.

Construction on Babe’s Crispy Chicken is slated to begin at the end of this month and be finished in May of 2025. It will be built next to the Babe’s burger haven at that same address, which opened in December 2021. The chicken concept menu hasn’t been released, but Wanek said Babe’s Crispy Chicken “will be keeping the tradition that we currently have at Babe’s, serving fresh homemade food with quality ingredients.”

The San Antonio-based mini-chain got its start in 1987, slinging burgers, fried chicken and pizza in TV-laden, family friendly digs. It operates six locations in the Alamo City.

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This article appears in Nov 15-28, 2023.

Nina Rangel uses nearly 20 years of experience in the foodservice industry to tell the stories of movers and shakers in the food scene in San Antonio. As the Food + Nightlife Editor for the San Antonio...