How Sonoma Chicken Coop Almaden Concept Start?

The catering businesses is one of the most lucrative and profitable home businesses with a high potential for expansion and growth. It is both financially rewarding and fun. Each catered event - whether birthday parties for children, breakfast in bed and intimate candlelight dinners for two, company dinner parties for 50 and wedding receptions involving a hundred or more guests -- is a new experience and challenge with a new group of people.

The owners of Sonoma Chicken Coop Almaden are planning to bring their “inexpensive excellence” to Almaden Valley with plans to open a new restaurant at the former McDonald’s site at Old Almaden Plaza.

The concept for Sonoma Chicken Coop Almaden Catering began as a brainchild of four friends: Jeff Starbeck, Gary Kjolhaug and Bob and Bonnie Ray. Starbeck, who owned Peggy Sue’s at the time, jumped when a location became available across the street from his downtown restaurant. “I thought it would be a great spot,” he says, “and I wanted to keep it simple, with an ordering counter like Peggy Sue’s.”

The name, “Sonoma Chicken Coop,” was chosen to convey the concept of a restaurant that serves high-quality meals like one might find in Sonoma, with a more casual approach. “Chicken Coop” also reflects their famous rotisserie chicken, which is a house favorite, along with their Red Hot Prawns, Barbequed Chicken and Chicken and Walnut Salad.