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Seminole Heights’ night owl stoners are about to have a new way to burn their buttholes.

Today, local Nashville hot chicken chain King of the Coop told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that it’s launching a “Late Night Coop” option out of the Seminole Heights Flocale food hall it shares with Westshore Pizza, burger and hot dog joint Slide, Matt’s Fat cookie and Flocale Axe Throwing.

The late-night King of the Coop kicks off on Friday, Sept. 8 and will find Flocale—located 5910 N Florida Ave. in Seminole Heights—open until 2 a.m. After that, Flocale will stay open until 2 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night.

“We’re talking about whether or not we’re gonna do slices late night, too,” Travis Masters, Westshore Pizza CEO Travis Masters and Flocale co-founder, told CL.

As part of the “Late Night Coop” plan, Masters and King of the Coop founder Joe Dodd said they are moving staff and operations out of the concept’s South Tampa location, which will have its last day of service on Sunday, Aug 27.

Dodd and Masters said they plan to keep the South Tampa location, located within a strip mall across the street from MacDinton’s, and are open to either leasing it to another restaurateur or starting an entirely new concept out of the storefront.

The “Late Night Coop” menu will include the same options as King of the Coop’s daytime menu, which features five levels of heat on its fried chicken. “We tried doing a smaller menu for late night before and people wanted what they wanted so we put the full menu back,” Dodd added.

Masters said the decision to move operations out of South Tampa and into Seminole Heights allows King of the Coop to more efficiently handle online ordering from entities like UberEats, plus larger catering orders from services like EZ Cater.

“The two locations are only six miles apart, but now anyone who opens that food delivery app can have one place to get late night hot chicken,” he added.

The end of operations in South Tampa means King of the Coop won’t get to feed Howard Avenue’s bar crawlers, but the concept does have late night delivery at locations in St. Petersburg and Wesley Chapel (3 a.m., Friday-Saturday), plus the South Tampa West Shore Boulevard it shares with West Shore Pizza (12 a.m., Friday-Saturday).

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