JOELLA’S HOT CHICKEN OPENS ON THE CARMELWESTFIELD BORDER Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photography Provided by Amy Payne and Joella’s Hot Chicken
Joella’s Hot Chicken, founded in 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky, just celebrated its fifth anniversary. Through the years, the company’s leaders have stayed true to the roots of the menu and have not made changes to their delicious chicken meals, sandwiches, dipping sauces, southern sides and drinks. “We believe in good, quality home-style cooking, and everyone has responded to that,” says Katie Wollrich, chief marketing officer for Joella’s Hot Chicken. The response has been so good, in fact, that Joella’s Hot Chicken has expanded to new cities each year with stores in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida and Georgia. This is their fourth consecutive year opening a store in the Hoosier state, and the company’s seventeenth location just opened on the Carmel-Westfield border. The 4,116-square-foot restaurant features both indoor and outdoor dining, with seating for up to 130 guests. “That market is so excited about us coming here,” Wollrich says. “Every day on social media, people have been asking when Westfield was going to open.”
