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Zaxbys plans to open more than 50 new locations in 2025 and get back on track to surpass 1,000 restaurants.
Founded in 1990, the Atlanta-based company currently operates more than 950 locations in 17 states, according to its website. The fast food chicken chain specializes in offering “delicious chicken fingers, zallards, wings and signature sauces with Southern hospitality and a modern twist.”
Zaxbys’ main market is the southeast. This is because the company has a huge presence, especially in states such as Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi. The company told USA Today in an email on June 12 that recent openings in Nevada and Arizona are beginning to expand westward.
Here’s what we know about where Zaxbys is already opening a new restaurant in 2025 and where it plans to open its stores later this year:
Where has the new Zaxbys location already opened in 2025?
The company told USA Today in an email on June 12 that it had opened 16 new locations so far in 2025, including the latest “new state entries” in Nevada earlier this summer.
Zaxbys has already opened one new location in Las Vegas, with the second location scheduled to open in July.
“In addition to these new market ventures, Zaxbys continues to expand in the previously established southeastern market in 2025.
According to the company’s website, the 16 locations the company has opened so far in 2025 include:
- Cochran, Georgia: Opens on June 2nd
- Spartanburg, South Carolina: Opens on May 26th
- Richmond Hill, Georgia: Opens on May 12th
- Bristol, Tennessee: Opens on May 12th
- Vincens, Indiana: Opens on April 21st
- Las Vegas, Nevada: Opens on April 14th
- Charlotte, North Carolina: Opens on April 7th
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Opens on April 2nd
- Locust, North Carolina: Opens on March 17th
- Leavenworth, Kansas: It opened on March 3rd
- Spartanburg, South Carolina: Opened on February 24th
- From Bardo, Georgia: Opened on February 24th
- Spartanburg, South Carolina: Opened on February 3rd
- Rocky Mount, Virginia: Opened on January 27th
- Brookhaven, Georgia: Opened on January 20th
- Natchez, Mississippi: Opens on January 6th
Additionally, Zaxbys has announced two new locations since USA Today spoke with the company earlier on June 12th. The location will open in Columbus, Indiana on June 16th and the restaurant will open on June 23rd in Eustis, Florida.
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The company told USA Today it will open its first location in Phoenix, Arizona in July.
“Following this second new state entry this year, Zaxbys also plans to expand its southern roots into new markets in 2025, including Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey and more.
Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter for USA Today. You can follow him with X @geuna Alternatively, email him at gdhauari@gannett.com.
