Billy D’s Fried Rooster opens in Wake Forest

Chef William Dissen has opened a third North Carolina locale of his farm-to-table restaurant model, Billy D’s Fried Chicken, at Wake Forest College in Winston Salem. The restaurant has destinations on the campus of Elon College in Elon and at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro.

“Wake Forest students benefit great meals that comes from genuine farms and Billy D’s delivers on just that,” Dissen stated in a corporation press release. “We started out with a pop-up past 12 months at a person of the school’s principal food halls and offered additional than 2,500 fried hen sandwiches in a single day. The eating hall food items operator instructed me it was the most they’ve ever noticed marketed of 1 merchandise in the dining hall’s history! It made excellent perception to check out opening a site there with our companions at Aramark and Harvest Desk Culinary Group.”

The campus menu characteristics “scorching ‘n’ crispy, elevated right” southern fried chicken, hen sandwiches and sides, these kinds of as macaroni and cheese, waffle fries, coleslaw and a sauce bar.

“Wake Forest has a demonstrated motivation to sustainability, which is at the coronary heart of everything I do at my restaurants,” Dissen claimed. “For example, the college has a complete operating farm, comprehensive-circle sustainability training, and courses on local climate improve and sustainable devices. We are psyched to open doors to these extremely vibrant young minds.”

Founder and government chef of upscale farm-to-table classic dining establishments, The Market place Area in Asheville and Haymaker in Charlotte, Dissen was encouraged to provide farm-to-desk meals to mainstream clients in quicker formats.

Based mostly on university student response and restaurant general performance at Elon University and Wake Forest University, he options to spouse with extra universities to grow the manufacturer.

In 2021, Dissen faced off and conquer Superstar Chef Gordon Ramsay on a Nationwide Geographic system, landing Dissen the title: “Most sustainable chef in the world.”