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This is not Prince's. This is not Bolton's. This is not Pepperfire. You should know that from the get go. If you can get past the sticky carpet that forever leaves a sticky residue on the bottom of your shoes, it's an okay spot for semi-hot chicken. I've been twice so far and I'll go back. It's 2 miles from work and I can call in an order and be there and back to my office quickly. They did mess up my order the 2nd time I went. It wasn't a big deal and they fixed it quickly with a fresh leg quarter. So it was super hot. While I was up there, a guy walked up to me and said "they messed up your order too, huh?" Apparently they had messed his order up more than just once in one visit. On the first visit I went, the staff was friendly and attentive. The second visit where I had called in an order and it was messed up, the staff wasn't as attentive and they were more interested in goofing off behind the "red curtain" than serving the customers in the restaurant. Both times I have been there, I have gotten the Leg Quarter. Their fried chicken is super tasty. The breading is bomb. I typically go for mild. But Hot Stuff's level of hotness is pretty weak sauce so I might try to go for medium next time. (Just to give you a level of my hot chicken gauge: At Bolton's, I have to go mild...and that's really tough for me sometimes.) So Hot Stuff isn't HOT chicken...It's "Spicy" chicken. When someone with as lame hot gauge as I have can walk in and order medium, you know you are not HOT. But I'll give them SPICY (which is actually their restaurant name...so they aren't really misrepresenting their product). But fans of true Nashville hot chicken will think this is weak sauce even if the chicken is really well fried. I really like the fries. They are the slender crinkle fries. The second visit I tried the bacon cheddar fries and they were okay. I had a to go order so they weren't as fresh as if I had had them in the restaurant. The cheese had congealed a bit making it hard to eat a fry...instead of a handful bite of fry. It's okay though because it was my bad for getting them to go. All in all, the convenience and the fact that their fried chicken is good (even if their hot isn't hot), I will definitely be calling in orders and picking them up to go. I just hope that they get their carpets cleaned. Because it is a little suspect what is making the carpet so sticky.