Restaurant Operator Podcast
Haven Sizzling Rooster has gone from 4 shops to 9 in simply 10 months. Learn the way the Connecticut-based model is rising from its co-founders in our newest Restaurant Operator Podcast.
Might 13, 2025
On this episode of the Restaurant Operator Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, editor of Pizza Market and QSRweb, talks to Jason Sobocinski and Etkin Tekin, co-founders of Haven Sizzling Rooster out of Connecticut. Whereas the rooster market could also be saturated, Sobocinski and Tekin discovered a distinct segment for warm rooster, and the remaining is historical past.
Tekin and Sobocincki have historical past when Tekin labored for Sobocincki at a restaurant he owned years in the past. Throughout his interview, Tekin instructed his boss he’d wish to open a enterprise with him sometime. They stayed in contact as Tekin opened his personal companies and in 2018, Tekin contacted his former boss a couple of enterprise alternative he had.
That enterprise? A Nashville sizzling rooster idea.
“There was nothing prefer it in Connecticut,” Sobocinski stated. He wished to do a model, nevertheless, and initially stated no. He was invited to satisfy the opposite two founders, and Sobocinski was “blown away” by them and the meals. He was in.
Tekin stated there was a narrative created behind the model they wished to create, and on the identical time they had been doing rigorous recipe testing.
“After three or 4 months of labor, I simply felt like one thing was lacking within the group,” Tekin stated. That may have been Sobocinski, who Tekin stated at all times created a model along with his eating places.
The model has lately grown from 4 shops to 9 in simply 10 months.
To study extra about Haven Sizzling Rooster’s operations, take heed to the podcast in its entirety on the high of the web page.
