So Kevin Cooper is taking the chicken guy to court.
“I’m feeling amazing,” Drexel Hill chef Kevin Cooper told 6ABC’s Alicia Vitarelli back on February 7, 2024, the day before Cooper opened his franchise location of the Guy Fieri restaurant Chicken Guy at the King of Prussia Mall. “I feel ready. I feel like we’re ready to get this thing up and poppin’. Philly is ready to turn up!” Well, it’s now 2025, and it’s fair to say that Cooper isn’t feeling so amazing about Guy Fieri or Chicken Guy these days.
In 2021, Cooper competed on “Guy’s Chance of a Lifetime,” a Food Network show hosted by Guy Fieri that pitted chefs against each other in tasks like frying chicken, operating a pop-up, and developing a new milkshake. After six episodes, Fieri declared Cooper the winner.
As winner, Cooper says he was supposed to receive the following: his own Chicken Guy franchise with franchise fees waived; assistance with the build-out of the space for the franchise; any operational expenses after the first year that exceeded the revenue of that first year; $10,000 to be applied to any necessary legal expenses; and a guaranteed minimum salary for the first year of $100,000…