Daily News | Chicken or the Egg, the Jersey Shore restaurant, hatches a jumbo location in Marlton
When you discuss the restaurant Chicken or the Egg, you need to ask: What came first?That’s where brothers Mark and Craig Cohen opened the popular breakfast-and-lunch spot in 1991. Two years later, they moved “Chegg” across the street into larger quarters and went 24/7 in season. They retired in 2017 and sold the business to Rob LaScala, who owns the seven LaScala’s Fire and LaScala’s Birria restaurants that dot the Philadelphia region.
Where the original on Bay Avenue has that look and feel of a seashore restaurant, with its wooden booths, drop ceiling, and kitschy signs, this version is enormous, and slicker with nearly 275 seats indoors, high ceilings, bold graphics, a multiple-TV-topped bar that seats nearly three dozen, and a sprawling outdoor space that can seat about 200 people and has withThe new location also will open daily at 7 a.m. for breakfast and — since it will have a bar, after all — will remain open till late.
Chegg seemed like an unlikely concept for LaScala, who grew up in the pizza business with locations at the old Market East food court in Center City and Apollo Pizza nearby at Seventh and Chestnut Streets . A resident of Marlton, he said, he heard that the original was for sale. “I bought it for the coolness of it,” LaScala said.LaScala said he didn’t necessarily buy Chegg to expand it. In 2017, when he got the opportunity to develop two restaurants and a bar at Renaissance Square.
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