Angry Chickz Opens 50th Restaurant in Olathe

Angry Chickz opened its 50th restaurant on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 14995 W. 119th Street in Olathe, Kansas. It's the California-based chain's first Kansas location and its first in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Doors opened at 11 a.m. in Olathe Pointe, near Black Bob Road, with an Olathe Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting and marching bands and cheerleaders on the program.

Showing up early paid. The first 100 guests received an exclusive black-and-red basketball-style jersey built for the opening, with the chain's chicken mascot on the front and "OLATHE, KS" and the number 26 on the back. Anyone in line by 10:30 a.m. could enter a drawing that awarded five people free Angry Chickz for a year, delivered as gift cards.

The product is Nashville-style hot chicken, sold as tenders, sliders and bowls across six heat levels: Country, with no heat, then Mild, Medium, Hot, X-Hot and Angry. The top level runs on Carolina Reaper pepper, and ordering it requires a customer to be at least 18 and sign a liability waiver. The waiver warns about burning lips, heavy sweating and increased use of profanity.

Prices on the menu board during a November 12 tour were working lunch prices, not event prices: $12.49 for two tenders with fries, $14.49 for two sliders with fries and $9.50 for a single slider with fries. The chain also introduced a Kids Classic meal of chicken tender bites, fries and sauce at $7.50. Specialty bowls include the Angry Mac — tenders, fries and macaroni and cheese — and the Hangry Fix, which adds rice and coleslaw.

The room is a converted Orangetheory Fitness, about 2,905 square feet near Mr. Gyros and Tiki Taco, dressed in Kansas City football imagery: a stadium wall with a mascot in a red No. 46 jersey, bright yellow chairs, and a booth area signed "The Hot Seat." The company is also running a school nomination program out of the store — a Kids Classic classroom party valued at $220 and a $500 sponsorship for one selected school.

The chain behind the opening started small. Founder and CEO David Mkhitaryan opened the first Angry Chickz in 2018 in a 900-square-foot restaurant in East Hollywood, California. The Olathe store was first planned for October before the opening moved to November 13. Fifty stores in eight years puts the brand in the same national hot chicken field as Dave's Hot Chicken and Hattie B's — and the waiver wall is how it marks its end of that field.