Here’s how early people started lining up at Shaq’s Big Chicken [Video]

FORT WORTH, Texas — Big Chicken, a chain Shaquille O’Neal and his business partners founded in 2018, opened Tuesday in Fort Worth.

The first 34 people in line got free food from Big Chicken for an entire year. And that meant some folks started lining up early. 

But how early?

Frank Perez was the first person inside the restaurant when the doors opened. He and his family had been waiting outside the restaurant since Sunday.

Lines outside Big Chicken is a first of its kind for the Alliance Town Center area, which is growing by leaps and bounds with new restaurants. 

Katie Butterworth’s husband Chadwick convinced her to get in line and stand in the rain.

“We forgot all of our rain gear and even stopped at Buc-ee’s and could have got an umbrella and totally …