April 22, 2019

Cowboy Chicken has closed its restaurant on 41st Street east of Kiwanis Avenue.

According to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page, it was closed for Easter Sunday and planned to reopen at 11 a.m. today. A note elsewhere on the page says that it is permanently closed.

The franchise opened 15 months ago with plans to add more locations. At the time, an executive said FRC Group had committed to opening 14 restaurants in four years in South Dakota, Iowa and Kansas. It closed a site in Ankeny, Iowa, in December, but two restaurants in Kansas remain open, according to a worker at the Manhattan location.

The restaurant, which started in Texas in 1981, features chickens that are rubbed with seasoning, marinated for 24 hours and cooked rotisserie-style over a wood fire for two hours.

The franchise group also owns the two HuHot Mongolian Grill restaurants in Sioux Falls.