Champs Chicken is a fast-casual fried-chicken franchise founded in 1999 by Shawn and Julie Burcham in Willard, Missouri. The first restaurant opened in 1999, in Auxvasse, Missouri. Today, the franchise is headquartered in Holts Summit, Missouri.
The brand specializes in fresh, double-breaded southern fried chicken and comforting homestyle sides, delivering bold flavor and high quality at accessible locations. Its core menu includes bone-in chicken, chicken tenders, sandwiches, and sides—all cooked with a proprietary seasoning blend and a focus on convenience and speed of service.
Champs Chicken began franchising in 2013, applying a flexible “business-within-a-business” model that allows placement in convenience stores, grocery end-caps, and standalone drive-thrus.
What differentiates Champs Chicken from many competitors is its combination of premium fried-chicken quality with a highly adaptive format and a support-rich franchise model.
Here's what you would need to invest if you were to start this franchise. These costs are provided by the franchisor in the Franchise Disclosure Document.
Champs Chicken Franchising offers a structured training and support system to help franchisees operate their stores effectively. Below is a breakdown of the training programs provided:
Champs Chicken Franchising does not appear to offer exclusive or protected territories to its franchisees. Franchisees operate within a location-based model, typically embedded in existing host stores, and there is no mention of a geographic area being reserved exclusively for a franchisee’s use.
This means that Champs Chicken retains the right to open or license other outlets in proximity to an existing franchise.
While the franchise system ensures brand consistency through standardized operational requirements and promotional control, it does not grant franchisees territorial protection against intra-brand competition.
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