{"id":25657,"date":"2026-07-14T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25657"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:30:20","slug":"kikis-chicken-and-waffles-1260-bower-parkway-28-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25657","title":{"rendered":"Kiki's Chicken and Waffles, 1260 Bower Parkway: 28 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110710_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110710_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110710_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110711.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110711_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110711_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110711_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110712_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110712_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110712_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local Soul Food and Chicken & Waffles chain, <i>Kiki's Chicken and Waffles<\/i> closed their <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=harbison\">Harbison<\/a> location on 28 June.  The closing letter was rather interesting in that it acknowledged that the location hadn't lived up to their standards lately, and responded by closing the store rather than addressing those issues.  On the other hand, the chain's ownership has had some recent legal woes that might make it difficult to put resources into a marginal operation.<\/p>\n<p>This location opened in 2019, and the chain maintains several other locations in the area and one in Charleston.  You can read about the closing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article316268817.html\">The State<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/06\/25\/kikis-chicken-waffles-closing-columbia-location\/\">WIS<\/a> or at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/business\/kikis-chicken-waffles-columbia-sc-close\/article_816d0567-55a3-4f6b-ad05-67e25bd79d2e.html\">Post & Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Tom)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1260+Bower+Pkwy+A8,+Columbia,+SC+29212\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Soul Food and Chicken &#038; Waffles chain, Kiki's Chicken and Waffles closed their Harbison location on 28 June. The closing letter was rather interesting in that it acknowledged that the location hadn't lived up to their standards lately, and responded by closing the store rather than addressing those issues. On the other hand, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2194,460,4437,569,188,4438,3,2015],"class_list":["post-25657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1260-bower-parkway","tag-bower-parkway","tag-chicken-and-waffles","tag-columbiana-station","tag-harbison","tag-kikis-chicken-and-waffles","tag-restaurants","tag-soul-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25662,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25657\/revisions\/25662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}