With its grand opening on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, Roaming Rooster is serving up their free-range, grain-fed, antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches to hungry Manassas residents.
Roaming Rooster is a Black-owned, D.C.-based business that started in 2015 as a food truck fleet.
Fast forward to 2021, Roaming Rooster won the “Hottest New Sandwich Shop” award from the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) and has been off to the races opening up locations all across the region.
“We’re very excited to open our new restaurant in Manassas. The city has such a great food scene and a lot of growth going on. With our various chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, and more, Roaming Rooster is ready to serve up all sorts of deliciousness in Manassas,” says owner Biniyam Habtemariam in a press release.
The new Manassas location at 9221 Sudley Road (formerly Five Guys) will be the company’s tenth brick-and-mortar restaurant. The 2,500-square-foot restaurant will employ up to 10 people.
The restaurant is the second chicken joint to open in the city in the past month. Hangry Joe’s Chicken, which brands itself as a Nashville-style chicken restaurant, opened at 9742 Liberia Avenue.
The restaurant replaces Strofi, a Mediterranean quick-service restaurant that opened in 2018. The 1,656-square-foot restaurant will offer diners plates such as chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, and chicken and waffles.
The restaurant’s website states customers who order angry hot must sign a waiver due to the high levels of heat and seasoning.
