Church's Chicken

Judged against two other architects, on the same brief

After 20 years without a new store in Jacksonville, Church's Chicken decided to build three at once and appointed three architects to do it. That makes this project unusually easy to assess: same brand, same city, same year, three different teams. According to the Church's Chicken franchise project manager, our location came in as the highest quality and lowest cost restaurant of the group.

Designing from the ground up, we delivered a restaurant inside budget that met every requirement the owner set. Founded in San Antonio in 1952 by George W. Church, the chain is now one of the largest quick-service chicken brands in the world, with more than 1,650 locations across 23 countries and system-wide sales over $1 billion — so the prototype requirements are not loose.