She had already been helping her dad on weekends at his Hall’s Honey Fried Chicken, which was in Duncanville at the time. It recently moved back to its longtime location on Camp Wisdom Road in Red Bird.
She learned the administrative side of the business and brought the payroll in house. The store had no online presence, and her dad had never done any marketing, relying on word-of-mouth from the beginning.
“Initially, when I said I was going to work for him, it was going to be for a year, and then I just took off with it,” she says. “I ended up liking it more than I thought I would, and I was good at it. So that was kind of cool.”
They opened a second Hall’s Honey Fried Chicken on Medical District Drive last year with Mackenzie as the owner and operator.
She was right. It is hard.
“I work every day of the week because in a sense, I’m always on call,” she says. “If someone calls in, I have to get dressed and go into work. It’s happened on many occasions.”
Hall’s still uses her great-grandfather’s recipe, which has no seasoning salt. By the way, the “honey” in their name refers to the color of the chicken. There’s nothing sweet in it.
Memories of her family’s original location on Thomas and Hall streets come up all the time.
“I never knew Herman Henderson. He died before I was born. I never knew his son, my uncle, who died before I was born,” she says. “But people come in here to this day and say, ‘We used to eat there, and this tastes just like it.’ I think that’s so cool. It feels so far in the past, but it really wasn’t.”
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