WASHINGTON: The restaurant’s owners of Roaming Rooster in the District of Columbia have granted a women free chicken for life after a tweet praising the fried chicken sandwiches went viral.

The tweet from Bri Hall, a 24-year-old musician raised in Maryland whose stage name is “La Hara,” drove demand for the restaurant’s sandwiches, generating lines that still stretch out of the door at all hours of the day. Hall posted during the height of America’s obsession with the Popeyes chicken sandwich to suggest that Washington, D.C., locals try Roaming Rooster, a family business owned by an Ethiopian immigrant who, she wrote, “has always been kind.”

While Popeyes is cool and all if you live in the DMV area you should check out Roaming Rooster in DC. It’s Black owned, and the founder Mike is Ethiopian born. He grew the family business from a food truck and has always been kind pic.twitter.com/kxS40kETlc

— LA HARA (Breaker of Combs) (@BriHallOfficial) August 26, 2019

He informed Hall that she had free Roaming Rooster chicken for life via Instagram direct message, Habtemariam said. The two haven’t yet spoken directly about the gift, he said, though he plans to call her soon.

Hall, who could not immediately be reached for comment about the gift, joked in a tweet that the lifetime supply of free chicken was likely to add to her waistline.

“Y’all I’m about to be THICK thick,” she tweeted to her almost 27,000 followers, before adding “much love.”

(Agencies)