Dave’s Hot Chicken said Monday it has been acquired by private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion.

The three guys behind Little Chicken, that fowl playground on the ground floor of Midtown Center, took a multiday tour of the South last year to conduct a fact-finding mission. They wanted to see ...

Little Chicken, the downtown-born venture specializing in lip-smacking fried poultry sent out in boxes and buckets, just settled into a new D.C. nest along the Southwest Waterfront. For its second act ...