Church’s Texas Chicken expands into catering with advance group orders

Church’s Texas Chicken launched Church’s Catering on June 30, giving the chain a new advance-order business line with pickup and delivery at participating locations and bookings allowed up to 90 days ahead. The rollout is nationwide, and the menu is built for groups of any size, from office lunches for 10 to graduation parties of 50.

Instead of only absorbing same-day walk-in traffic, store teams now have to plan larger batches of bone-in chicken, tenders, Honey-Butter Biscuits, mac and cheese and other items around scheduled drops. That can smooth prep for cooks and managers when orders are known in advance, but it also raises the risk of a high-volume ticket colliding with a lunch rush, a short-staffed shift or a delivery handoff that needs extra labor.

It is offering a first-time customer promotion of $25 off orders of $250 or more through June 30 at participating locations through ezCater. Catering means more packaging, tighter production timing and more front-counter coordination, especially when an order leaves the store instead of being served across a dining room.

The National Restaurant Association’s 2025 Off-Premises Restaurant Trends report found nearly 75% of all restaurant traffic is now off-premise. Catering labor is different from dine-in labor because the work is planned around larger orders and different dayparts.

In June 2026, the brand launched the Golazo Meal, a family-style bundle with 20 pieces of chicken or tenders, four large sides, 10 biscuits and a collectible soccer ball. It also announced a 600-restaurant China agreement in April, calling China its 27th international market. Roland Gonzalez became chief executive in February 2025 after serving as chief operations officer since 2023. Church’s Texas Chicken has 318 locations in Texas alone. The chain says it is one of the largest quick-service chicken chains in the world.