Jack Pirtles Chicken

Address:

1217 S Bellevue Blvd, Memphis, TN 38106

Phone:

(901) 946-5824

Hours:

Mon: 6am-10pm
Tue: 6am-10pm
Wed: 6am-9pm
Thu: 7am-9pm

Fri: 7:30am-8pm
Sat: 6am-10pm
Sun: 10:30am-7:30pm

Other Details:

Just like the chicken that bears his name, Jack Pirtle was one of a kind. Growing up poor in Toone, Tennessee, he was splitting logs for railroad ties when he was little more than a boy. He was a hard worker, from the start of his life to the end, so it was only fitting that he marketed first his sit-down home cooking eateries and later his chicken restaurants to the working man.Jack worked as a millwright, a mechanic, a brakeman for the railroad and a maintenance man before he entered the restaurant business at age 43. His first restaurant stayed open 24 hours because the nearby Firestone plant did, too. It’s fair to say that he expected the same work ethic from his employees that he exhibited, but he never expected more than he was willing to give himself.

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