Popeyes Is Coming To Brick!

Popeyes Louisiana Chicken is coming to Bricktown and will be located next door to the new Wawa at 1906 Route 88, the former site of the Laurelton Mobile Home Park. When completed the 60 seat Popeyes restaurant will have a one-way drive thru aisle that wraps around the back of the building, according to Ron Aulenbach, the Director of Engineering for developer JSM. JSM has been very busy in Brick over the last few years, having developed the Costco shopping center and currently redeveloping half of the former Foodtown site, both on Rout 70 in town.

Aulenbach went on to say the restaurant would be open from 10:30 am until 11pm, seven days a week. A Popeyes tractor trailer will make deliveries two to three times a week between 7 and 10am, to avoid conflict during business hours. Fast food franchises like Popeyes are put in busy locations to benefit from drawing in traffic from nearby roads. Traffic is likely to increase in the area since an additional 3,000 square foot restaurant and 4,000 feet of retail space have been approved for the site, but have yet to be developed.

According to Wikipedia, Popeyes was formed in 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana and is headquartered in Miami. It is currently a subsidiary of Toronto based Restaurant Brands International. As of 2021, Popeyes has 3,705 restaurants, which are located in more than 46 states, the District Of Colombia and Puerto Rico, and 30 countries worldwide. About 50 locations are company-owned; the vast remainder are franchised.

Fun fact: Founder Alvin C. Copeland claimed he named the stores after the fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, portrayed by Gene Hackman in the 1971 film The French Connection, and not the comic strip character Popeye the Sailor.

Popeyes serves chicken dishes in mild and spicy flavors and offers sides such as red beans and rice, Cajun fries, mashed potatoes with Cajun-style gravy, rice, buscuits and coleslaw. In addition to chicken, Popeyes also serves seafood entrées such as shrimp and catfish.