McDonald's Goes Chicken Wings but Will Boneless Fly?

Wing Zone's Dan Corrigan was featured in an article on thestreet.com titled, "McDonald's Goes Chicken Wings but Will Boneless Fly?". The article discusses McDonald's rolling out "Mighty Wings". It discusses price bumps in product and how wing-centric restaurants are responding. The article discusses wing franchises and football season as the busiest time of the year. The article expands on Wing Zone's creative sauce line up and that wings are cooked to order. You can click here to read the article or begin below.

"McDonald's Goes Chicken Wings but Will Boneless Fly?"
By Laurie Kulikowski

Chicken wing lovers across America are either rejoicing or snubbing McDonald's new "Mighty Wings" offering this week whereby the fast-food giant will offer the meal at more than 14,000 nationwide locations. The roll out began this week and extending through the end of November.

Mighty Wings will be sold with so-called bone-in chicken wings either as a "drummette" or a "wingette". The wings are sold in three, five and 10 pieces starting at $2.99 and come with an assortment of nine sauces including Chipotle Barbeque Sauce, Creamy Ranch Sauce, Honey Mustard Sauce, among others, McDonald's says.

As wing-centric restaurants consider the chain's impact on their food costs -- especially if large bulk purchases by McDonald's limits overall supply thereby causing chicken wings prices to spike -- another scenario could emerge if the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company decides to continue the item for a longer period or even permanently: the mass adoption of the boneless wing.

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Forget Buffalo; Think Mango and Maple

Wing Zone have been featured in a great article in the Ocala Star Banner titled, "Forget Buffalo; Think Mango and Maple". The article focuses on the history of the chicken wing and how Wing Zone is showing innovative superiority with our newest Flavors: BBQ Bacon Nirvana, Cinnamon Maple and Flavor Face Off winner Mango Fire. The article highlights Wing Zone's history and discusses our well loved "Flavorholics" and the origin of the word. Our very own Dan Corrigan discusses the inspiration behind our newest flavors and why these new flavors put Wing Zone one step above the competition. Click here to read the article or begin below.

"Forget Buffalo; Think Mango and Maple"

By Rick Allen

Next year, chicken wings will be 50 years old. Not that chickens didn't have wings before that, but it was in 1964 according to legend, when Teressa Bellisimo broiled a batch of wings destined for the next day's stock pot and created today's universal appetizer - Buffalo wings, named because her Anchor Bar was in Buffalo, N.Y.

In the ensuing half-century, wings have gone from the least-desirable piece of poultry to the most; on the wholesale market, wings typically are more expensive than any other piece of chicken except boneless and skinless breasts, especially around the Super Bowl - when we eat more than a billion wings, or roughly 100 million pounds, according to the National Chicken Council.

Nearly every restaurant regardless of its primary cuisine typically has wings - in recent years the "Buffalo" has been dropped. And their varied flavors always are the key.

Some places specialize in wings; among them, Wing Zone, which has its roots in Gainesville where a couple of University of Florida fraternity guys - Matt Friedman and Adam Scott - experimented with cooking wings in their house kitchen and sold the results to other students as a way to beat late-night munchies. 

They called themselves "flavorholics," and their flavors are repeat winners at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo.

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National FREE Skinny Dipper Day is the 6th of September 2013

You're eyes are not deceiving you, this Friday, September the 6th, is National FREE Skinny Dipper Day! Pay a visit to your local Wing Zone and pick up your FREE snack size Skinny Dippers.


Choose 1 of our 3 NEW Flavors on your FREE snack size Skinny Dipper! You can choose the Flavor Face Off Winner, Mango Fire, the sweeeet Cinnamon Maple, or BBQ Bacon Nirvana. Bacon, nuff said!

It is only available for 1 day! Earn Wing Zone Rewards by ordering online, type "New Flavor" in the coupon section after clicking "Checkout". So Flavorholics, #WhatsYourFlavor?