First Person: Where My Dad's Restaurant Used to Be - Rhode Island Monthly

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First Person: Where My Dad's Restaurant Used to Be - Rhode Island Monthly

The Chicken Roost in downtown Providence served 2,000 dinners daily. Photography courtesy of Paul Kandarian. I’m a hungry eight-year-old boy hanging out one Saturday in my father’s restaurant, The Chicken Roost, a long, squatty building on the corner of Fountain and Union streets that he owned for about ten years in the capital city. My busy dad is running around, dare I say it, like a chicken with its head cut off in one of the city’s most popu…