Bojangles Brings Southern Chicken and Biscuits to Davenport’s US-27 Corridor
The Carolina chicken chain’s first Polk County restaurant anchors a fast-growing stretch of US-27, serving hand-breaded chicken, scratch-made biscuits and sweet tea around the clock.
There’s a new spot for chicken and biscuits on US-27 in Davenport, and for Polk County it’s a first.
Bojangles — the Charlotte-born chain known for its Cajun-seasoned fried chicken, made-from-scratch biscuits and Legendary Iced Tea — is up and running at 40235 US Highway 27, near the AdventHealth Heart of Florida hospital campus and next door to the newly built Wendy’s. The restaurant opened to the public in the summer of 2025 as the first Bojangles in Polk County, and it has since settled in as a fixture on one of the area’s busiest commercial corridors.
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A welcome that started with first responders
Before the general public got its first taste, Bojangles set aside a day for the people who work the front lines. On the eve of its public opening, the restaurant hosted a “First to the Table” celebration and ribbon cutting for local police officers, firefighters, EMTs and medics, with a complimentary lunch and a “biscuit-cutting” ceremony standing in for the usual ribbon. The company framed the event as a thank-you to the neighbors who help make it possible for families to gather safely around the table each night.
What’s on the menu
For anyone who hasn’t made the trip up to the Carolinas, Bojangles is built around Southern comfort food served fast. The lineup runs from Bo’s Chicken Sandwich and hand-breaded chicken tenders to bone-in fried chicken, along with a roster of biscuit sandwiches — Cajun filet, sausage, and bacon-egg-and-cheese among them — served all day. The chain is nearly as well known for its sides and its sweet Bo-Berry Biscuits as it is for the chicken itself, and its iced tea has a following of its own. The Davenport location operates 24 hours a day, making it one of the few options on the corridor for overnight and early-morning crowds.
Part of a bigger return to Central Florida
The Davenport opening is one piece of a much larger push. Bojangles left the Orlando market back in 2015, and its return has come through franchise group Chaac Foods, which signed a multi-year agreement to develop a batch of new restaurants across the greater Orlando area — including planned locations in Winter Garden, Kissimmee and Davenport. When the Davenport store opened, it counted as the ninth Bojangles in Florida and the fourth in the Orlando area.
The brand hasn’t slowed since. Founded in 1977, Bojangles now operates more than 800 restaurants across some 20 states and has been working toward a milestone of 900, with additional Florida locations announced or underway in markets like Tampa Bay and, closer to home, the nearby Four Corners area.
What it means for the corridor
For Davenport, the arrival adds one more option to a stretch of US-27 that keeps filling in with restaurants, retail and rooftops as the Four Corners region grows. Bojangles now sits alongside neighbors like Wendy’s, the Davenport Diner and Domino’s, giving commuters, hospital staff and families another place to pull in — whether that’s a biscuit on the way to work or a family meal on the way home.
