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Chicken Express

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En Chicken Express de San Marcos, te damos la bienvenida a un mundo de sabores crujientes y deliciosos. Somos tu parada ideal para disfrutar de nuestro pollo frito, catfish, hushpuppies y postres caseros, todo preparado con cariño y servido con una sonrisa. Ven a descubrir por qu...

Chicken Express

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About Chicken Express

En Chicken Express de San Marcos, te damos la bienvenida a un mundo de sabores crujientes y deliciosos. Somos tu parada ideal para disfrutar de nuestro pollo frito, catfish, hushpuppies y postres caseros, todo preparado con cariño y servido con una sonrisa. Ven a descubrir por qué nuestra comida ráp...

En Chicken Express de San Marcos, te damos la bienvenida a un mundo de sabores crujientes y deliciosos. Somos tu parada ideal para disfrutar de nuestro pollo frito, catfish, hushpuppies y postres caseros, todo preparado con cariño y servido con una sonrisa. Ven a descubrir por qué nuestra comida rápida tiene ese toque especial que nos diferencia.

What Customers Say About Chicken Express

Chicken Express in San Marcos is a popular spot, especially for their chicken tenders, fried catfish, and sweet tea. While many praise the fresh, hot food and friendly service (especially from manager Alex), some report inconsistent quality, rude staff, and order inaccuracies.

Popular Dishes

chicken strips fried catfish fried okra mash potatoes and gravy sweat tea corn nuggets french fries chicken tenders (4)

Best For

Families Locals Quick Bite Casual

Tip: Check your order before leaving, especially for to-go orders, to ensure everything is included.

Features

🅿️ Parking 🚗 Delivery Accessible 🍽️ Lunch 🌙 Dinner
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Frequently asked questions about Chicken Express

Chicken Express is located at 1256 TX-123, San Marcos, TX 78666, San Marcos.
Chicken Express offers chicken cuisine.
Chicken Express has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Chicken Express offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway, delivery.
The most recommended dishes at Chicken Express based on customer reviews are: chicken strips, fried catfish, fried okra, mash potatoes and gravy, sweat tea.
Chicken Express is ideal for families, locals, quick bites, casual dining.
Chicken Express in San Marcos is a popular spot, especially for their chicken tenders, fried catfish, and sweet tea. While many praise the fresh, hot food and friendly service (especially from manager Alex), some report inconsistent quality, rude staff, and order inaccuracies.
Check your order before leaving, especially for to-go orders, to ensure everything is included.
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Chicken Express San Marcos Reviews

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Reviews (22)
Carley
Carley

Great place I go here all the time! People are nice! Food is AMAZING. Always clean! Highly recommend the corn nuggets! Love it love it

Iyanna Watts
Iyanna Watts

Alex the manager has great customer service every time I’m in the drive-through or die in With great time managemen

Renee Gomez
Renee Gomez

Alex, the general manager, made sure we received top teir service tonight as we grabbed dinner. The food was extremely fresh and quickly made ready. He went above and beyond by making our visit the most welcoming trip with amazing quick conversation as our food was prepared. I would highly recommend you grab lunch or dinner here any time if the day!

D F
D F

Been going to this location for about ten years. Love the chicken here. Fried chicken is my happy place when properly cooked. This location nails it 95% of the time. Golden crispy fresh hot well breaded chicken. Not heavily seasoned. You'll find me here almost every Tuesday for the Tuesday special. There a "Chicken Tuesday" joke about me. The $1 large unsweet tea is excellent and fresh and for those who can handle sugar, the sweet tea is very sweet. Go to this location on a Tuesday and ask for the off-menu Tuesday special: a drumstick, thigh and a biscuit for $~2.25 and add a tea. Lunch for $3.25. I get 8 specials and feed the whole family for about 20 bucks, with leftovers. Be sure to crack open the box on the way home if you get to-go so the moisture escapes and chicken stays crispy on the ride. Great fried okra as well. It's a madhouse if you go after the school across the street dismisses. The service has been getting better since Covid. Big thanks to the cook, it's great!

Richard Cusson
Richard Cusson

Used to be awesome. Had some difficulty yesterday. My wife wanted their 10 piece Dark Special Deal. Surly young male employee said it would be 15 minutes. I said fine. After 25 minutes waiting, female employee said it would be 10 minutes! Twice she offered refund or substitution. I said I'd wait. After 45+ minutes total wait time, received our order. Got home and found that, instead of a large container of mashed potatoes, we had received a small and large container of white gravy. Very disappointed. WTH???

Susie Harris
Susie Harris

I want to say thank you to Chris and his team for the amazing food and service. You guys definitely made our event fun and a time to remember. Food was nice, hot, and tasty so thanks again.

Beverly Giacoletti
Beverly Giacoletti

Chicken Express is our go to place to eat. My husband loves gizzard & chicken strips. My favorite is their fried catfish & fried okra. Everything is delicious at Chicken Express.

poland stinker
poland stinker

Restored faith in America. Went through the drive through and ordered a good ol number 1 which includes 4 tenders a biscuit or a roll and a side. When I received my food I had 7 Tenders! A soft and buttery biscuit made from angels. As well as crispy and soft french fries that were well seasoned. I also got honey packets and Spicy serendipity seasoning to put on the chicken. Overall a meal made in heaven filled both me and my S/O up for 11$ Very happy will return for more chicken goodness.

MR Platinum
MR Platinum

Everything is awesome! Everything I have ordered has been great, my kids can't enough of their mash potatoes and gravy and I can't get enough of that sweat tea I am addicted for sure. Their drive thru is convenient and reasonable depending on the line. This place always seems to be busy, looks like a good place to chill in also.

SusieAnthony Dominguez
SusieAnthony Dominguez

The food is delicious and the sweet tea is very tasteful. Only if the side dishes had a little more to the orders it would be great but other than that it's very delicious.

John Aguilar
John Aguilar

The food is good but make sure you check your order to make sure everything is there if you're getting it to go. The amount of times they've forgotten parts of my family's order is insane. It's to be expected at this point. Very frustrating to consistently drive home and not have everything there.

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Felicia Scibek

Got back to the house just to find out I didn’t get the okra and the wrong size of Coleslaw. Spent 90 something dollars, you would think they would make sure the order was right. Alex the general manager had an attitude about the situation then when asked if he could look up the order by the ticket number he said he would have to look it up all individually. Which is crazy I’ve worked at fast food places and you can look up the order by the number. He didn’t want to do he’s job that’s all it was. Worst customer service specially coming from a so called general manager… I will be filing a complaint with the district manager.

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Yvonne Alonzo

Return Refunded bc they wanted to give me something other than what i ordered & did not tell me until after they charged my card. Will not go there again.

Joe Malott
Joe Malott

They apparently did not have chicken tenders for their number one meal and I had to wait 15 minutes for them to make some tenders. So they neither had chicken nor were they express.

stacey booker
stacey booker

Cashier was horrible , bad attitude for absolutely no reason at all. Chicken wasnt fresh. It was okay at best.

Darryl Fields
Darryl Fields

The employee was a rude skinny man with long black hair. I asked him if the fries were fresh. He said they're up there aren't they?. The fries was over cooked and cold. the Chicken was over cooked and greasy. I will stick with Bushs Chicken up the road from there. I should have know when I saw a pile of Chicken and a tray of fries with very few customers, I know why now.

Alexander Fowler
Alexander Fowler

Very Gross place manager is rude and has a runny nose and should have stayed home. He was walking around with his cold Medicine around the food and even sat it down on the counter up front. Crazy they are still in business.

Howdy Texan
Howdy Texan

The chicken here was cooked in bad oil or recooked. The food had a funny smell and did not taste good at all. The crust was soggy and you can see in the photos seems to be overcooked. The biscuits were in a bag not boxed, and needless to say were hard as a rock. This establishment is hit or miss. Sometimes you get decent food and other times you get horrible food that’s a waste of your money. I don’t understand why they can’t keep this place clean and provide good tasting food. It’s quite disappointing.

Mike Cassel
Mike Cassel

So you’re a fast food restaurant that’s lost its mind on pricing. Chicken is one of the more inexpensive foods and you want over $60 for chicken tenders and two measly sides. It used to be half that now that’s just as much as going to a good restaurant not fast food, and the service wasn’t that great.

Marcusfenix9186
Marcusfenix9186

I came to eat some chicken and this is what they give in a 10 piece mix i dont recomend to come and eat this kind of chicken i wont be back here are the pictures and who atend us you need a job that you would need to love

Dahlia Richmond
Dahlia Richmond

We requested the 15 piece strip special and it was disgusting. It was a box of old strips that were falling apart with a puddle of old grease at the bottom. They looked and tasted old. It wasn't 15 strips either. It looks like all the old chunks just thrown into a box. The fries were stale as well. It came out to over $40 and was absolutely not worth it. This usually isn't the case. But it was bad enough that we won't be back anymore.

Rachel Gisselberg
Rachel Gisselberg

This is by far the Worst location! Every time we go here, they are rude and act like they have no time for their customers. Today at 11:45a Friday at Lunch time they said "Mac & Cheese is not ready yet" The food also looks terrible, shouldn't everything be fresh right before a lunch rush? The fries look old and dried out and the chicken is greasy, like it sat in the grease for A while. Hire Better for as much as you charge!

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1256 TX-123, San Marcos, TX 78666

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🕐 Hours Today
10:30AM-9PM
Rating
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🌐 Website
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