A celebrity chef’s duck-fat-fried chicken will soon be satiating hungry crowds at a bustling Irving entertainment center. Chef Tiffany Derry’s Roots Chicken Shak has plans for a second location at Toyota Music Factory in the Las Colinas area.
Roots Chicken Shak, which started as a counter inside Plano’s Legacy Hall, opened its first franchise in December 2025 on Belt Line Road in Addison. The Irving restaurant will be operated by Corey and Marian Epperson, the same local franchisees behind the Addison location.
Derry, a native of Beaumont now living in Plano, first caught national attention on Season 7 of Top Chef. She went on to be a judge on MasterChef and is seen regularly on The Food Network. Today Derry and business partner Tom Foley run the restaurant group T2D Concepts, which owns, in addition Roots Chicken Shak, Roots Southern Table and Radici Wood Fired Grill in Farmers Branch.
Tiffany Derry and business partner Tom Foley run Roots Chicken Shak under the restaurant group T2D Concepts. Chef Tiffany Derry/ Facebook
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