Durham Historic Chicken Hut Earns Landmark Status After Decades Of Community Impact
Mayor Leonardo Williams, who owns his own Durham restaurant, reflected on the Tapp family’s influence. “When my wife and I said, ‘We’re going to open a restaurant,’ the first thing we did was look at how Black-owned restaurants are doing it in Durham,” Williams said. “I remember her saying, ‘We got to do it like The Chicken Hut.’”