Abandoned Church's Chicken - Richland Hills, TX

[@beckyauman2013]

Thanks Wallie and Kayla for making my night just a bit brighter. I absolutely love all the hard work you do and I binge watch all the videos when I have a spare moment!

[@celticangel73]

Hi Wallie, Apologies for this comment being a bit off topic to this video. I just wanted to comment on how much I've been enjoying your videos. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh. Lived both in the South Hills (Beechview) and in Aspinwall before I moved out of state 10 years ago. I remember being at several of the places you featured. I even worked at the Walmart at the Waterworks Mall from 2003-2007. The first video I watched was the Dairy Queen in Greentree. I went there many times in in the 80s and 90s with my mom and my sister. We'd get our ice cream and sit on the wall between the DQ and the McDonald's. So many fond memories of these places. Thank you for this trip down memory lane. Michele P.S. Another Penguins fan here! Let's Go Pens!

[@ThePossumCatcher]

That Church’s Chicken is on the corner of Glenview and Booth Calloway. It’s now a donut shop. My Grandma lived and passed away in the Nursing Home across the street and my Grandpa lived in Brookdale facility on the other side of the pharmacy next door. We used to bring my grandmother Church’s Chicken often. But that was back in 2012. This was a great video.

[@bobbycarlson4273]

U guys are amazing and awesome people. I enjoyed ur videos Wallie and Kayla

[@WallieB26]

Thank you very much for the kind words!

[@bobbycarlson4273]

@@WallieB26 your welcome.

[@JasonPlays22]

Love the Simpson's lead in! Nice work👍

[@laurajean7044]

Hey Wallie I was thinking you should do an updated video of all your retail gems and collectables since its been 2 years . Hope you and Kayla are well.

[@tinoswrld]

Lol

[@Cristini8]

Great video guys!! :) love seeing these places

[@unclejj2350]

Whataburger is the state burger of Texas and nothing else compares...lol

[@gaylenewood7707]

Well I think I saw a video of a mouse at a whataburger it ran across the counter next to a fryer and it jumped in and got fryed..

[@tinoswrld]

Lol

[@bettyallen8730]

uncle jj love what a burger!

[@jayreed9977]

Once again another great video... Thanks for all the work you do for all the video's you do... Lot's of time and love put into them.. It really shows.. Nice work

[@cynthiarose7534]

I love Church’s spicy chicken and fried okra. They’re popular here in suburban Chicago. Thanks for the great video.

[@maccustoms2295]

Hope your having a great day. Love the video and cool commercial at the beginning. Stay safe out there

[@doug9066]

In N Out is big in California which there is one by Los Angeles International Airport. Those restaurants are always busy. Thank you for sharing Wallie and Kayla!

[@news89]

We have one about 3 miles down the road from me. So the quest continues. The Burger Box looks very neat.

[@ErikVince]

I never heard of that chicken place Church's Chicken Wonder how their food was

[@gaylenewood7707]

They were competing against kfc and popeyes and chick fi lay sorry for the misspelling but the church's chicken they were competing and theyve treated their employees not to well either so they lost I guess.

[@MikeAngelCortez8845]

KFC and popeyes are the biggest fried chicken selling giants and they put church's out of business.

[@katypaige8079]

Fantastic

[@tinoswrld]

Lol

[@ActuallyItsDre]

We have a few of them here in GA. Their food is okay. In my opinion, their chicken is too greasy. Whenever I eat there, I can feel the grease on the roof of my mouth after eating. I like Popeyes over Church‘s.

[@StantonsJourneys]

Howard Stern Reference nice lol, awesome video sir. Thank You for sharing.

[@snookerl]

Love the Simpsons into. Really added to the video!!

[@andrewpaslay9243]

Your videos are awesome thank you for what you do😀

[@timentwisle4732]

in Michigan it used to be The White Castle and Churchs Chicken combo restaurant. Miss it Church's must have pulled out of Michigan. Its just White castle now. Great Video as usual!!!!

[@MBDrums49]

I've seen the Simpsons commerical And I knew you u would put that in 😂

[@mcpreston08]

Hey if it is may of 2019 I am still watching your videos you are a alsome person keep up the good work and thanks for making me part of the group on Facebook thanks so much

[@MrIceman22]

I been to one in Ohio Good Chicken for sure. thanks for sharing this building buddy

[@slackingpacking]

Nice Find! We have some Churches in the Dayton area. The food is decent.

[@justinmccowan2543]

I find the roof vent at 4:13 to be humorous, looks like a metal burger on top of a chicken place!

[@ParanormalExplorers]

Great explore guys loved this

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

Love your Hill's shirt!

[@redneckbryon]

Never seen that commercial before, but it was funny.

[@rbisme113]

So back in the very early 1990's, I ate ate Cajun Joe's Chicken on rt. 119? in Uniontown and they were awesome. Sadly, they closed down like 3 months later, but for a decade I drove past their sign and abandoned store. Bizarrely, they are based out of Michigan. They made some real good spicy fried chicken and corn bread.

[@Luigitime2015]

I heard other people online mention it over past 3 -5 years and I also remember certain favorite and famous old wrestler did some ads for it few months that was years ago ,it not in my area

[@Peyethon]

I know that area very well. The burger box next door has the best ice cream out there!

[@jet34thehawk]

Awesome video 👌👌

[@alanlough638]

I've never heard of Church's Chicken. My 2 favorite chicken restaurants are KFC and the chicken at Ruff Creek Market. I really enjoy your videos, Wallie.

[@pizzaeaterlegostudio2405]

I bet in the future, you have to explore a abandoned chucky cheese.

[@theplayer-dr5bg]

Maryland location plz :D

[@tinoswrld]

Lol

[@richardgambler6319]

So years ago ,1990's I think , we had Church's Chicken here in Canada, but only for a short period of time . Not a Church's Chicken proper restaurant but the " Harvey's " burger chain had Church's Chicken available . It was a suprise ! I had Church's Chicken in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1990's,also . As I recall ,it was very good,along the lines of Popeye's . I don't know what the deal was with Harvey's but it did not last - 3yrs max, I think . We now have Popeye's and they are just decimating KFC ! KFC was good in their day but have slipped . I swear they have changed the recipe and not favorably .

[@matthewcampbell7985]

How many abandoned restaurants in Texas?

[@Optopolis]

Lol That Simpsons Commercial tho! We just got our first Church's in Cheyenne, Wy last year, and I honestly like it better than Albertsons/Safeway's chicken (Except for the bbq wings at Albertons/Safeway, those are still awesome!!)

[@bigloudnoise]

I know this is an old video, but I'm curious to know what the title of the outro music is from this era of videos.

[@DAVIDSRETAILADVENTURES]

Good video Wallie. I’ve never heard of this chain. Definitely looked like their restaurants were very small buildings. Anyway keep up the great content and keep it coming! 🔥🔥🔥

[@joea.9969]

Never have been to a Church’s Chicken. I’ve seen a few of their commercials.

[@justinmccowan2543]

The name Church's Chicken sounds like what they would have in the reception hall at church during a function!

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

Have you seen the abandoned Church's in Akron? They left the sign up, but you otherwise can't tell what the building was.

[@michelleevans5531]

Try Chicken Express! So very good! The sweet tea is amazing! Ours here in Azle is really good. They use the pebble ice🥰

[@robertmailhos8159]

We had a church,s chicken.in Griffin ga..it had to close because nthe floor got washed out because.thr sewer line busted & washed alot of the dirt out from under the floor

[@MikeAngelCortez8845]

3:23 only three tables were back there when church's operated.

[@timothywilliams2601]

Can't believe you never heard of Church's. I grew up with Church's. I know they've been around more than 60 years. They are very generic. Back in the 70s they were known as the poor mans chicken franchise. You could get a 2 piece meal for a $1... As time went on they started to cut back on the ingredients for there chicken. They had a beer battered recipe. You also could get 10 pieces for $4.

[@benjaminvlz]

I had fried chicken from Church's once. I didn't care for it, to be honest. When it comes to the national chain restaurants that sell fried chicken, I prefer the taste of KFC or Popeye's. KFC has some bad business practices as it pertains to the treatment of their chickens, but I won't get into that. Their chicken still tastes good, nonetheless. I love the taste of the breading they use.

[@davidconrad3681]

I've never had churchs

[@SearsCool]

but I did 👍

[@dmax64]

You aren't missing anything. It isn't that good nothing special.

[@SkItTl3z4u]

used to eat from this location years ago, can't say i ever had a bad meal but maybe its just the fact i was a kid then haha, closed for a few years now.

[@Broncos2005]

Thank u very much for the video. Could you come to Michigan and film alot of our abandoned buildings. Now u can start filming Chuck E. Cheese

[@zoefaith120]

I got one Church's Chicken around me in Conway, SC.

[@DezDye]

As mentioned by another this Church's has been repurposed into a donut shop. The Burger Box across the street is my absolute favorite mom and pop burger shop! I have been going there for many years and ever time I go the owners are the ones doing the cooking they are incredibly consistently tasty!

[@syxepop]

Wallie, I can give you an idea of the menu, at least from the VERY SUCCESSFUL Puerto Rico operation (2nd in fried chicken fast foods after KFC). Fried chicken bone-in pieces (as few as a single piece w/o sides), several chicken sandwiches, several specialties (sandwiches on Texas Toast comes to mind), even prepared pasta dishes and lots of sides (most on the bland side), sweet biscuits, soft-serve ice cream and other desserts. A huge "chavito" value menu w/U$1.29 (breakfast) and U$1.39 (lunch / dinner) items, including smaller sandwiches and single pieces of bone-in chicken and chicken strips. I wonder how varied the menu is in TX vs. in PR (a single franchisee owns all stores here)...

[@brendakrieger7000]

We have a Church's Chicken in our town. It's good. Ours doesn't have eat in or drive thru. It's a walk up window only.

[@denisefink507]

The biscuits and honey butter are amazing, the chicken is ok, some locations carry a chicken fried steak that isn't too bad, they are kinda disappearing in my area of Texas here outside of San Antonio

[@mrfortnite5651]

Hey wallie how r u

[@jameshebert5430]

The reviews must have been really bad looks like someone tried to put the place out of its misery by shooting it!

[@MikeAngelCortez8845]

I like the simpsons commercial of church's chicken.

[@thisiscellaich]

Hi Wallie. Not sure if you’ll ever read this, but this old Church’s is now a donut shop!

[@candj98]

My mother in law lives right down the road from that abandoned place.

[@TananBaboo]

2:17 but at the beginning you said you hadn’t?

[@itigo23]

"Burger box" (5:42)

[@poqou947]

We have only 8 locations of church's chicken in Colorado and they are all in the Denver area

[@razzyp]

So weird when I hear someone say they don’t know what Churches is...it’s my favorite however I never heard of of Giant grocery so...amazing how we all co exist in this country yet it feels like completely different worlds. ❤️

[@Prnencetti]

I've heard of Church's Chicken before never here in the United States but there is one by my grandmother's house in Puerto Rico I thought they were a Puerto Rican chain and only in Puerto Rico but apparently not. Wonder where they're located here in the United States other than Puerto Rico. I only remember Church's Chicken as the place by my grandmother's grocery store next to the Burger King. And yes because the United States own Puerto Rico they have Burger King a McDonald's and even at least by my grandma's house by the Walmart a Little Caesars pizza. And yes even Walmart at one time this was before hurricane Maria in before Eddie lampert shut them down they had a Kmart. I always see Church's Chicken going through the towns in Puerto Rico but I would never stop there though because my grandma always wants to cook a nice home-cooked meal and never eat fast food.

[@dmax64]

Church's chicken is also a franchise chain in Canada. It's been around here since at least the late 70's.

[@c82richard]

That is a small Church's Chicken. The one in Phenix City, Alabama is bigger than that and has a bigger dining room

[@SearsCool]

mine has a pretty decent dining room

[@SearsCool]

I love that place

[@guynethdailey1759]

My Hills shirt again.☺

[@spongebobsquarepants725]

these places used to be everywhere similar to how McDonald's is except not to that extent. then they changed their recipe and lost so much business that they closed a lot of their stores. I think they are making a comeback now but they never changed back to the old recipe to my knowledge. Then again i haven't had the old recipe chicken (or any Churches Chicken) since I was 5. I think they made a new recipe that people liked. all i know is that first blunder is probably why this location and all of them except one in the CSRA area of GA only has on Churches left (a little past the mall). The rest of them are in downtown Augusta and are closed up tight with boards. Not sure about the SC part of the CSRA.

[@carcrasher88YT]

Never had Church's, myself, either. Mainly because we don't have them in NY state...yet I still hear Church's ads on the radio every now and then (same case with O'Reillys, before they started opening stores in Upstate NY). That place is TINY! Bad reviews AND little eat-in space (I've seen more eat-in space at a Domino's or Little Caesar's, lol), no wonder the place went out of business. Yikes!

[@METALMAN4Wii]

They where combined with White Castle in Michigan from late 90s to maybe 2005 then that ended.

[@EagleStew]

That location is a USA Donuts location now!

[@jeffwhitmer7089]

There honey butter biscuits are awesome

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Wallie do you still suffer from anxiety attacks as much . I do from time to time .

[@johnsanders4946]

Burger Box is a vintage DQ.

[@realtv01]

Church's Chicken locations close down after failing to pay sales taxes. ... We were as shocked as our guests and the restaurants' crew that the locations had not paid their state sales taxes, a statement from okcfox.com

[@teresagremling5148]

I love in and out burger

[@robertmills2900]

Church's is all about the manager. If the manager cares, it's all good. If the manager doesn't care, they don't change the oil, the fryers aren't hot enough, the honey biscuits taste like 🤢and the sodas are mostly carbonated water. That location is 2.5 miles from my house.

[@TheWALLofMusic]

Always love your videos Wally. Is your car a Chevy Cavalier? I had a 1998 purple Cavalier for about 7 years. I also had a 1987 and a 1996 Cavalier in the past. They all were really good cars.

[@WallieB26]

Thank you! Yes, my car is a Cavalier. Its a 99 Z24 with a 5-speed manual transmission. I absolutely love that car.

[@brianleeper5737]

@@WallieB26 My dad has a 1984 Cavalier station wagon with a 4-speed manual transmission in his garage. Hasn't been driven in years.

[@adamsATSfan415]

Also good video I liked the commercial at beginning I like the Simpsons also I guess I can't get chicken and biscuits because this church's chicken is permanently closed Also I never had church's before either to bad I will never get to try it because Kfc that I hate my opinion and Popeyes that I like got them out of business it's been kind of awhile sense you did a abandoned fast food restraunt that wasn't in a stream and that was the Abandoned Pizza Hut in bridgeville Pa and that was 2 months ago but the last one you did before that was the burger king in Allison park pa you streamed 3 weeks ago, also wallieb26 you should go back to the Blawnox area to do the abandoned Max and Ermas last time I went past there 2 weeks ago it was still abandoned its been 2 years sense you filmed it maybe you could revisit it sense you live by fox chapel area.

[@Arcticwolf689]

We had a churches chicken. But it close it in 2018 but it didn’t last long because it was sold to a another franchisee in they were owned the new owner in were affected by investors financial problems those setbacks led to closure so yea that what happened to it

[@joshuajerrythereviewer]

Isn't church's like chick-fil-a or kfc by the way the beginning of this video is totally awesome with the Simpson's great video wallie

[@Imperial0666]

They are nothing like Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is more like In-N-Out Burger except with chicken. Church's Chicken is a ghetto Chicken shack. The food itself similar to Popeyes.

[@cvpiDOTnet]

The floor inside looks cleaner than when it was open for business. They were never very clean inside no matter what location and chicken was not even that good.

[@gaylenewood7707]

That building looks like it was a taco bell cause the bell looks like it was up where the bell would be..

[@Oldsvito2999]

Can you record yourself eating at rallys/checkers in cleveland on Broadway and e 65th where white castle/church's used to be and there's a white castle now dunkin on w 117th

[@doug9066]

I like Kentucky Fried Chicken much better. I never heard of Church's Chicken until I came to the south. Yes they do have small dining rooms than other chain chicken restaurants. In recent months here in Lubbock, Texas a former Church's Chicken was turned into a Wienerscnezle (probably spelled wrong) after the Church's Chicken closed some time ago before that.

[@UnkownPanameraLover]

Intro was prime 😅

[@frncscplcsc7678]

#1 burger resturant whataburger is the best better then McDonald's Burger King

[@theplayer-dr5bg]

Remember the drive thru joke #funny #longjohns

[@nelsonneves8867]

in February 1989, Church’s chicken merged with Popeyes.

[@syxepop]

There should be a lot of Church's Chicken stores in TX because they started there (in San Antonio) in 1952. Church's bought Popeye's in 1989, but kept the brand names separate, which they kept until 2004, when Church's was sold to an investment group. Since 2017 Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen (full name) is part of Restaurant Brands, Inc. . It is the same division of Brazilian-owned 3G Capital (part-owner of KraftHeinz) that owns both Burger King and Tim Hortons.

[@mitchellinc]

Homer Just Stole Someone's Meal From Church's

[@jamescopley5538]

I would have said where's the chicken at

[@chrisjohnson-kz1qy]

Never had church's chicken

[@wiLLi3m]

I saw these simpsons commercial compilations posted by this 1 guy I’m subbed 2 He’s a good channel sub 2 him

[@alphagnYT01]

Can you do Toys R Us in cedar rapids Iowa please. It is my childhood store and it was awesome! On Google maps there are pictures of the store you might be able to use in the video.

[@kevin12567]

You can tell the videos that were filmed earlier by Kayla's blue hair, as right now her hair is blonde.

[@philiproy6292]

That churches chicken the service was bad it has been closed for at least 3 years if not more. I live in Hurst

[@KeithPlaysPS4927]

KFC is the best Fried Chicken fast food place.

[@dJ.kNiGhT23]

Church's chicken is way better than KFC and Popeyes

[@brenthaymon280]

I like Popeyes chicken and biscuits.

[@ryanclifton7033]

Church's chicken is okay

[@Darby-wn7fx]

Why ok

[@retailadventures6]

Wallieb26, can you reply if you see this I am having issues with comments.

[@SearsCool]

I'm not him but I replied

[@retailadventures6]

Sears Cool thanks.