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Nashville Hot Chicken (NHC) at 1600 Campbell St in Kansas City’s Crossroads-edge area serves Nashville-style fried chicken — sandos, tenders, fries — primarily as a delivery/takeout “cloud kitchen.” Per the NHC brand’s own announcement, this is NHC’s first franchisee-operated location, opened July 8, 2023 — i.e. a local-operator franchise unit of the multi-location national NHC chain (founded 2018; other units in Tempe AZ, DTLA, San Francisco, West Covina, Pacoima, Chicago, Belleville NJ, etc.), not a one-off KC independent. Operating status as of mid-2026 is ambiguous (flagged temporarily closed / reopening). 1

Ownership & history

Nashville Hot Chicken (NHC) operates at 1600 Campbell St in Kansas City, MO (64108), on the Crossroads edge, primarily as a delivery/takeout “cloud kitchen.” The business self-describes as Black-owned and women-owned via its Facebook Business page and Google Business Profile “About” section — owner-asserted language, not sourced to a press interview or formal KCMO MWBE/WBE certification. Not found in the kcblackowned.org food directory. This ownership identity, if genuine, is relevant to tier once the franchisee name can be confirmed. franchisee name + KC-roots verification for tier

Brand structure (2026-06-23): Per the NHC brand’s own grand-opening announcement, the KC store is “NHC’s first franchisee-operated location,” opened July 8, 2023. 1 NHC (“Nashville Hot Chicken”) is a national multi-location franchise concept founded in 2018, with units across the country (e.g. Tempe AZ, DTLA, South San Francisco, West Covina, Pacoima, Chicago, Union City, Belleville NJ) and an active franchise-sales arm at franchise.hotchicken.org. 2 Ordering for the KC unit runs through the brand’s shared platform (order.hotchicken.org/order/nhc-kansas-city) and Toast. So the 1600 Campbell St store is a franchise unit of a national chain, not a one-off KC independent — which is the opposite of the original page premise and the basis for the tier challenge above.

The individual franchisee’s name and KC-roots status are not yet confirmed from a verifiable source. franchisee name, ownership history

Last verified: 2026-06-23 · Source: aggregator listings (Seamless / Uber Eats / DoorDash / Grubhub for 1600 Campbell St) + brand menu (hotchicken.org) · Confidence: Medium — prices captured from third-party delivery aggregators, not the operator’s own published price list; aggregator prices typically run above in-store. Treat exact figures as indicative.

Nashville-style hot chicken built around a heat ladder of named flavors. Per aggregator and review listings, the spice profile runs (mild → hot): Plain Jane, Buffalo Ranch, Backyard BBQ (non-spicy) → Mildly Cyrus (warm, not spicy) → Blazin’ → Punisher → Hail Mary (hottest). (Heat-ladder names per Yelp/Restaurantji listings.)

Chicken

  • Chicken Sando — Nashville hot chicken sandwich, choice of heat level, served with coleslaw and pickles on a bun (~$8.22).
  • Chicken Tendo — hand-breaded tenders, choice of heat level (~$5.34).

Combos

  • #1 — Chicken Sando, Fries & Drink (~$15.54).
  • #2 — Chicken Tendo (2pc), Fries & Drink — listed combo, price not separately captured. #2 combo price

Sides

  • Fries (5oz) — ~$5.04.
  • Waffle Fries (5oz) — ~$7.14.
  • Crazy Fries (5oz) — ~$7.14.

Appetizers

  • Mac & Cheese Bites (7pc) — ~$8.10.
  • Popcorn Shrimp (8oz) — ~$8.34.

(Menu items and prices captured from the Seamless / Uber Eats / DoorDash / Grubhub listings for 1600 Campbell St and the hotchicken.org brand menu; see Sources.)

Prices are from third-party delivery aggregators (which mark up over in-store) as of 2026-06-23 and are indicative, not operator-published. Wings were not confirmed on the captured listings. operator-published price list (hotchicken.org / Toast — JS-rendered, not directly captured); full sides/wings/drinks lineup.

Sources

Ownership & status update (2026-06-28)

Operating-status & brand-structure sources (accessed 2026-06-23)

  • Status re-verified 2026-06-23 via Restaurantji listing (accessed 2026-06-23); registry_status set temporarily_closed (was non-enum ambiguous-). Restaurantji explicitly flags the 1600 Campbell St unit “TEMPORARILY CLOSED” (2026); the Facebook page signals reopening and delivery aggregators still list it — consistent with temporarily-closed-pending-reopen, not permanently closed.

Footnotes

  1. NHC brand grand-opening announcement, “GRAND OPENING — NHC KANSAS CITY, MO” — states the KC store is NHC’s first franchisee-operated location, opened July 8, 2023, operating as a cloud kitchen. (Accessed 2026-06-23.) Direct fetch returns HTTP 403; content confirmed via search-index extract of the brand page. ↩ ↩2

  2. NHC brand locations / franchise pages and franchise.hotchicken.org — establish NHC as a national multi-location franchise (founded 2018) with units in Tempe AZ, DTLA, South San Francisco, West Covina, Pacoima, Chicago, Union City, Belleville NJ, and more; KC unit order page at orders.hotchicken.org. (Accessed 2026-06-23.) ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/nashville-hot-chicken-kc · record updated 2026-07-17