A resterant i think everyone should try once in their life is Chicken Shack. There is a chicken shack in Hanford. I usually get buffalo chicken fries with ranch. The chicken is freshly prepared, well seasoned, and served hot, making it a satisfying choice whether you're grabbing a quick lunch or eating with family. Many customers also appreciate the friendly service and the variety of sides, like creamy mashed potatoes and fresh coleslaw, that complement the meal. read more

An unfortunate remnant of what once was. Though the customer service was excellent, the food left to be desired. I recall going to the old Chicken Shack with friends after our college classes, and ordering the #3 meal with the Hot BBQ. Sure you had to wait, but it was damn good. You'd be waiting for your order, and there would be a line out the door of both customers & doordashers also waiting for their order. Now the restaurant has lost it's magic. Food comes out fast, but lacks quality, depth, and originality. It's gone from Hanford's hidden gem, to a corporate feeling "chicken tender place". Like all things in the world, they were just better in the past. read more

First time at this location. Wanted to try something different. Service was good but restaurant and bathroom was dirty. No soap or toilet paper in ladies bathroom. Every order had an issue. First one they didn't have the sauce. Second one they didn't have macaroni salad. Salad was good but everything else was substandard. To quote my son "I don't know how you can screw up a chicken sandwich but this is the worst one I've ever had". No one liked the chicken strips. If you want ranch dressing it's 99 cents for a tiny little cup of it. Definitely won't be going back. It was expensive and food wasn't that great. Had to go back for ranch because was charged for two and received one. read more

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Was there last weekend and I should have known to go in after noticing the very dirty glass door as I walked in. I then paid 30 bucks for 2 meals ( I know the costs are high) and the chicken was dry and tough in some spots. Will never ever go back. We ate in the restaurant and the walls and floors were disgusting so I took a Pic. So disappointing. In fact, all the glass at that location were filthy. Dont waste your money people! read more

Chicken is dry yet greasy, fries are drenched with grease. I order garlic fries for an extra $2.49 and my fries were the same as reg fries except with parmesan cheese ontop. Workers are rude and disrespectful doesnt give you their attn when ur ordering inside. Won't be coming here again. For 3 chicken finger combos it cost me $50. Canes is cheaper and way better. Tables and seats were dirty read more

The Chicken Shack - Fresh garlic fries and a 2 piece chicken finger - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

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We drove all the way from Visalia to try this location, and it was a huge disappointment. The restaurant was extremely dirty--windows, doors, and even the handles looked like they hadn't been cleaned in a long time. The bathroom was worse... toilet paper rolls were literally on the floor. The whole place had a disgusting smell. As for the food, it didn't make up for anything. The chicken was undercooked and not crispy at all, and the fry portions were noticeably small like we got shorted. It's frustrating because the Fresno and Clovis locations are so much better and clearly held to a higher standard. This location needs serious improvement. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if it ends up closing if things don't change. Unfortunately, we'll just be making the drive to Fresno or Clovis next time. read more

Tried this place the other day with a friend and had the habanero mango wings. They were just alright. I guess I need to try their tenders which are supposed to be amazing! Maybe next time. I love bone in wings and wanted to try them. The flavor was good, but they were very saucy. I must say that the service was excellent however! Go check them out and see for yourself read more

The Chicken Shack - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

Always fresh chicken whenever I go. Love their sauces. Their ranch is so good. The service is ok. And lots of space inside. read more

I just gave this place a rave review about a week ago, but tonight was a huge disappointment. The one star is that it was open late right before New Years Eve, and I had to go to Staples and Smart & Final and it was in the same shopping center. ‍. I'm not going to say a lot because my mic won't let me dictate, and I'm terrible with a keyboard. So I shot a video and posted photos explaining it all. Short review: greasy, limp fries, and not the ones I wanted and believed I was ordering. . Right now I'm REALLY ANNOYED with YELP for not telling us HOW LONG of a video we can post, and then THEY decide what part to "trim"!!! TELL US your limit so we can accommodate the limits and not lose the most important part of our videos! read more

Unacceptable, was given damn near frozen cheese what is this? Do better, or shut down and go back to original location where it actually tasted good. read more

The Chicken Shack - Cold near frozen cheese on the Buffalo Chicken Fries - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

I have always been a chicken shack lover and they were so good I'd make the drive just for there garlic fries n tenders but my god how this place after moving locations to the old Arby's get so bad I made a out of town trip just for this meal I notice they no longer serve hot fresh food and on a Friday night upon ordering I notice a few baskets of French fries and tenders on the friers already cooked but didn't pay much attention to them that was my food they cold and nasty I took my meal up and told them nothing is even warm can u remake it and they then got vengeful still cold chicken and fries only this time I only got a few cold fries in my garlic meal I asked the guy did I make you mad look at this showing him all the garlic and a few fries he said no they just made it fresh that was a lie. Flat out it's really sad to see this place go to pot like this (everyone goes to raiding canes it's cleaner and food is always hot) but they have nothing over chicken shack if only chicken shack would put in effort that they use to . Wonder if this is a good safety violation (I know it is ) what happened to this place 3 employees no customers except grub hub and everything is filthy. read more

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I loved this chicken. Past tense. It was Always so big crispy, juicy and flavorful. Not at this location. I had my husband bring it home after work. No coating hardly at all. Way small and dried out. Little small sauces as well. Shame Hanford location, you use to be my favorite. read more

This has been my husband's favorite chicken place for years. We went in today and that place was a mess. Dirty tables, trash in the floor, grime and hair on the drink dispensers. If my husband notices, it is definitely filthy. The chicken strips were noticeably smaller. Disappointed in the Chicken Shack. Not what they are capable of. :( read more

I loved the customer service, it was great. The Buffalo fries are my favorite, and it was very fast' I loved the experience I can't wait to eat there again. Thank you all for your hard work. read more

The Chicken Shack - Buffalo Chicken Fries - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

I've frequented this location quite a bit over the years. It's gotten worse and after today's experience deserves a review to let people know what you're getting. First off the quality of chickens/fries you get is hit or miss. I don't think I've gotten a meal lately that isn't either overcooked or not fried enough. Fries are either beyond edible from being too fried or they're floppy and cold. The chicken tends to be under fried almost 'naked'. And under seasoned, requiring the sauces they sell. The reason for this review is I ONLY go to Chicken Shack because of the sauces. They're good enough that I'll put up with the inconsistent food quality to cover it with the sauce. Today we ordered through door dash and the employees at chicken shack didn't include any of the sauces that were part of the order. After calling the location they deferred any responsibility to door dash and simply stated I could come pick up whatever they forgot. But maybe they don't understand the purpose of paying for door dash is because the customer can't or doesn't want to leave their home, meaning you as the restaurant should ensure everything is included in the bag prior to handing it over to the door dash driver. So here's your warning about this place. The food is lackluster, the sauces are delicious. Probably not worth the price overall but I've kept going back. read more

I wasn't going to post this, but they left me on read in their DM's. We were kid free, but my husband was hurt so we opted for take out. We hadn't tried the new location yet, because the drive through line was always ridiculous. When I got to the drive through speaker the person was polite but when I asked a question about a menu item the person just said "I don't know it just started here" rather than offering to ask someone else. Next, the price, $13 is a little steep for plain chicken strips with no sides. The food...my husband enjoyed his fries, and the pickles were good (not great). The potato salad was home made tasting which is a plus, but it was super bland. I had clearly requested strips with barbecue sauce on them and I ended up with plain. A drive thru is a nice option, but not if you are messing up orders. It would have been easier for me to check my order had I gone inside, but I shouldn't have to. Overall I'm a little bummed we ended up with this for our kid free dinner. Will we try them again, not sure because we have never had a great experience at an actual brick and mortar store with them. Their food truck is pretty good though. read more

The Chicken Shack - Chicken strips - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

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Service was decent. Chicken was mediocre at best, not much flavor, hardly any seasoning and the breading wasn't the best. and noticed a health code violation... rat dropping behind the drink machine. Fries were on point however. Atmosphere was ok however the place was quite dirty. read more

The chicken shack is a place u should try atleast once when coming to Hanford. The Chicken is plain tasting but u can sauce them or get a dipping sauce to dip them in. They have a WIDE selection of sauces. I like their small cut fries as well. Overall I like this place and I come here every once in a while when I'm craving their chicken. read more

The Chicken Shack - 3 pc chicken w fries and spicy ranch & honey mustard - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

This place fell off so bad, food is horrible now: always cold, portions are small, and chicken is just chewy! They changed the fries a while back and they just don't taste like real chicken shack anymore. As soon as they moved across the street it just went downhill. Also service is horrible: the staff obviously hate their jobs and are so slow, they look miserable and are always messing something up in our order lol. The restaurant is also always dirty. You have a better chance at getting your food kinda good if you order inside and say you're eating there. then maybe they'll cook it decently. Doordash it comes wrong and they either over or undercook your chicken and give you a child's portion. For the price it's not worth it at all anymore. Fresnos location on the other hand is a lot better. read more

Love chicken shack but this location is so dirty & ran down looking. Ordered wings & tender but got my whole order wrong so I had to wait 10 mins while my bf was eating & they ran out of fry sauce. Restrooms are disgusting. Won't ever come back to this location. read more

While driving through Hanford I immediately craved chicken shack and for the first time in 3 years I was able to stop by. Food was great as well as the customer service. They were kind enough to bring our order out to the table. Unfortunately the cleanliness at the new location has plummeted, definitely a 0/10. From the walls and windows being greasy to the floors being sticky & pesky flies everywhere. While paying at the register the filth under the fryers is obvious. Although the food was good as ever, if I would have seen just how dirty the place was before ordering I wouldn't have ate there. Hopefully they're able to tighten up on the cleanliness because chicken shack is a local favorite to many! read more

The Chicken Shack - SALAD - Shack Chicken Salad - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

Food really good ! Service horrible stood in line 25mins and another 15 to get to window another 25 just to get our food smh slow workers !!!! HANFORD LOCATION read more

No sauce on the chicken sandwich plus the bun was burnt. They don't have a house or chicken sauce and the sauce cups they do give are very small. read more

The Chicken Shack - Burnt bun and dry - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

Scrumptious fried chicken strips and all kinds of delicious sauces. Service is always very friendly. Surprised at their overall rating. ‍ more for me. read more

Came through the drive thru and the employee couldn't even focus on taking my order. Employee was too busy watching a lakers game, which they were talking about over the intercom saying "I can't believe they didn't fuckn play Anthony Davis" then saying "what was that again?" As we were waiting to pay you can see the employee watching the game while we waited. Finally when given the food employee handed us the drinks which one of the drinks didn't have the lid on correctly resulting in it spilling all over my car.... Very annoying and unprofessional. This was at 7pm 2/25/25. No supervision there but definitely a need. Personally, I wouldn't want to be paying someone by the hour that's driving customers away from lack of professionalism/customer care. read more

I sat in the drive through for 10 minutes. There were two vehicles in front of me that NEVER moved. I had to get the guy behind me attention so I could back out and go somewhere else. By the time I got my food and left the restaurant across the street, the car who was ordering when I left was finally at the window. read more

We went inside and they took forever to take our food order. There was no line and I was the only one here.

If I could give zero stars I would they were very rude in the drive thru. They also took over 10 mins to take my order I would have backed out but the drive way is so hard to back away from. You need to train your people a lot better I will be posting this review to all review sites. read more

Been here many times. They expanded their menu so have so many options now which is awesome. This visit the service was great, which honestly I've never had bad service from them anyways. The person working the dining room area was taking drive through orders, dine in orders, and cleaning the dining room, and I mean cleaning it. He wiped down the trash cans inside and out, and had a great attitude. The food was good per usual so if wanting some chicken of any kind, I recommend having this place. read more

The Chicken Shack - #3 - 3 Fingers Regular Fries hot bbq sauce and sweet chili sauce - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

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I was fully prepared to hate everything about this place based on the reviews. Reluctantly we decided it was a "crap shoot" and decided to give this place a try. I will say I was pleased to find our order well prepared with generous portions. My husbands chicken was moist and tender as well as were the fries. I had the wrap and I will admit arguably the best chicken wrap I have ever had. My only negative is directed to the manager. If you are not going to supply your restrooms with toilet paper please shut them down for public use. Your employee response was "yeah we have been out of toilet paper for a while". I offered to go to The dollar store to pick some up or suggested they put a stack of your napkins in there. This is totally acceptable, considering this is an easy problem to fix. Shame on you. read more

Chicken fingers looks more like fried shrimp, they are so small! The wings look like chicken nuggets. Seems like as their price goes up the smaller they get. We usually order online, it never miss that the sauces we paid extra for are always missing, also I almost forgot about paying extra for the garlic fries but not that's not what we got! Seriously, their service gets worse every time! We used to love this place a lot that we order at least once a week, not anymore. It's really too bad. read more

just went last week and this place never fails me. I always order the chicken wrap (about 14$) which is totally reasonable considering i get full from half & have extra for later. the fried chicken is great, the seasoning is perfect, lettuce always fresh. great lunch. perfect service , mostly in and out. friendly if there's ever a wait read more

The Chicken Shack - WRAP - Shack Chicken Wrap - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

This is the second time our food was a major disappointment for us! We used to love coming here when the chicken fingers were good size and hot! The fries used to be hot and crispy too! Now the fingers are small and not as tasty and the fries are limp and lousy! What a shame! What the hell happened to the Shack we used to love! read more

I wanted to like this place because I am a sucker for a random fried chicken joint. But this place ain't it. They are SO stingy with the sauce like come on dude that is your FLAVOR it is the reason why I chose that sauce! And honestly all the chicken was a little dry. Probably could of been less dry with more sauce! I think I would of been more forgiven if the price reflected the quality/ quantity of food we got Also the veggie ratio on the fried chicken sandwich wack as hell Literally a single skinny ring of purple onion Borderline disrespectful The only pros are everything is freshly made, it is crispy, and the fries are actually pretty bomb Good flavor and crisp on the fries but everything else Weak I included a picture and I know it looks delicious but that is 99.999999% thanks to my camera read more

We went there to buy dinner. They had no sides. Said they just didn't make any . The chicken finger's were to tough to eat. We will never go back read more

I've been all over the country and I've tried a lot of chicken but The Chicken Shack ranks up there with the best. Great food and I'm glad this gem is in Hanford! Thanks Chicken Shack! read more

The Chicken Shack - Buffalo Chicken Fries - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

First let me say I have never got greeted anytime I have came inside the lobby to do my order..but besides that...I only buy the Buffalo chicken fries from here they are bomb...very tasty and it's a good size serving that can probably feed two and maybe even three, like if you had a child with you and you dont want to buy a separate entree meal or kids size meal. The upside to this restaurant is that every-time I have come inside the lobby always has clean tables and chairs. They also have high chairs if you need one for the little one..however the only reason I came inside was because drive thru was super long and going slow. I seen no one in lobby order area accept a dasher waiting on his order so I thought it would be quicker. Boy was I wrong..I didn't get my order taken until almost all the cars that were in the line when I drove up we're almost gone and I'm the only one in the order area and there are customers waiting at dining tables for their food still. Lobby customers seemed to get taken care of after they cleared the drive through. It's just a little disappointing. The upside is the cashier didn't make any mistakes and knew how to operate the register, and when my order was finally ready they said my name to alert me my food was ready and before I could even finish getting up to go pick up my order the another associate (not the cashier) had brought the order to me and was very polite and sent me off when I nice goodbye type exit sentence..and lastly my food is great!!! read more

The Chicken Shack - Menu and an empty counter with no associate. - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

horrible experience. waited 30 mins for a dine in order. and 45 mins for a milkshake that i never received. requested a refund and they weren't capable of doing so, doesn't make sense could have taken 2 minutes out of their time to do so, it's not like everyone wasn't waiting for long periods of time anyways. i don't understand how this place got rated for best of 2024, customer service sucks and food sucks compared to when they first opened and were actually proud to serve you. do better/: read more

This purchase was on 9/16/23. I ordered a "grilled" chicken salad and 12 wings and tab ran in a little under $40 (no drinks). Extremely disappointed with the chicken product on the salad. I'm not one to make false claims but this definitely had the texture and quality of canned chicken. If you've had it before, you know what I'm talking about. Small, shredded, flavorless. Definitely, absolutely not grilled chunks of all white chicken breast which is what was expected being that I have ordered grilled fingers from here and they were decent sized gilled chicken breast pieces. Next comes the wings. They are battered and fried. Which is fine, if that's what you're expecting but we were expecting actual buffalo wings not KFC style battered fried chicken. Just FYI to those who may be looking for low carb options. read more

The Chicken Shack - "Grilled" chicken salad with what seemed to be canned chicken not grilled. 9/16/23 - Chicken Shop Near Me - Hanford, California

They never seem to get an order correct. I stopped going for this reason. Decided to give them another try. And once again, they failed. All I asked for was no onion. Nothing complicated. I ended up having to eat it like a salad so that I can take out all of that onion. read more

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