ATLANTA, Ga. — A group of high school students who are big fans of Houston’s are devastated by the restaurant’s decision to remove chicken tenders from the menu.
They’re so devastated that they are taking matters into their own hands. Ultimately, they want to install a billboard above the Atlanta location reading “Bring Back the Tendies.”
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The restaurant recently removed the flying chicken platter, which included what the kids lovingly refer to these days as chicken “tendies.”
The students reached out to the restaurant group directly to ask them to put tendies back on the menu, but they didn’t get much response. They even tried a mass-email campaign, a t-shirt protest and vowed to boycott the restaurant.
Now, they’ve escalated their concerns into a full-blown campaign.
“Eating chicken tenders together allowed us to become much closer over what we believe is genuinely the best meal on the planet,” one student said. “Removing the chicken tenders permanently would devastate us, so we are doing something about it.”
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A student from New Jersey named Ryan You started a Change.org petition asking the restaurant to bring back the chicken tenders. Houston’s also has a location in New Jersey.
The petition has gotten over 2,600 signatures.
They’ve also created an Instagram account, Bring Back the Tendies, which has amassed thousands of tendie-sympathizers around the world.
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Still, the restaurant has not brought the delectable tenders back. So the students are taking things one step further.
The group has started a GoFundMe to raise money for a billboard featuring their campaign slogan that they plan to install directly above the restaurant in Atlanta.
“We are going to do the unignorable and display a billboard right on top of Houston’s West Paces Atlanta,” organizers said on GoFundMe.
The group wants to raise $7,500 to pay to rent the billboard for four weeks and pay for production costs.
“If you want a chance at returning the best chicken tenders known to man, this is the only way we can have a chance,” organizers said on GoFundMe. “We need to get the attention of corporate, and a billboard will do just that.”
It’s unclear why the students chose Atlanta as the location for the billboard.
So far, the GoFundMe has raised over $2,500.
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