Richmond's Cocky Rooster restaurant expands, fittingly, to Gamecock country in S.C. - Richmond BizSense

Richmond's Cocky Rooster restaurant expands, fittingly, to Gamecock country in S.C. - Richmond BizSense

The Cocky Rooster’s Columbia storefront. (Courtesy Cocky Rooster) For its first out-of-state location, the Cocky Rooster has flown south to the land of the Gamecocks.  Earlier this month the Richmond-based fried chicken restaurant chain opened in Columbia, South Carolina, in a neighborhood adjacent to the University of South Carolina, a school whose mascot, fittingly, is the Gamecocks. It also marks the Cocky Rooster’s expansion into franchising…