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Texas Fried Chicken (Kidsgrove)
What going viral did to them
Overwhelmed
Deliveries paused temporarily while a queue ran down the street; the owner apologised to customers he'd let down.
Latest published report: 15 Aug 2025
Next check-in
29 Oct 2026catch-up check-in (12-week mark passed before launch)⚡ The trigger
TikTok reviewer @zingyy229 gave the three-month-old takeaway 9.5/10 and called it 'possibly the best takeaway in Stoke-on-Trent'.
🪝 The hook
A local reviewer's high score, quoted as a superlative.
📈 The numbers
- Review neared 500,000 views
Figures come from the sources below and are often the owner's own claims. We don't estimate.
🗓 Check-in schedule
Every entry is checked 2, 6 and 12 weeks after it blew up (from 15 Aug 2025, the mid-month estimate of blow-up date).
- 2 weeks · 29 Aug 2025 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in
- 6 weeks · 26 Sep 2025 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in
- 12 weeks · 7 Nov 2025 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in
🔁 Check-in history
From published reports (pre-launch backfill). It Blew Up hasn't run its own check-in on this business yet.
- Week 0 · 15 Aug 2025 · The Sentinel · outcome: Overwhelmed