I promise, at some point I’ll quit writing about fried chicken restaurants. (The grease on my fingers will make it too difficult to type.) But more fried chicken restaurants keep opening in town, and the subject continues to be one I get asked about a lot. So, I have news on the opening date for Lawrence’s latest fried chicken restaurant, Zaxby’s.

Zaxby’s has announced that its grand opening will be Feb. 18. Although I left my Sherlock Holmes hat at home, a little bit of detective work indicates you can get some of Zaxby’s chicken well before that. When I was taking a photo of the new building, there was a sign taped to the drive-thru message board that said the store was opening at 10 a.m. Monday. My guess is the grand opening is Feb. 18, but the restaurant will have a soft opening on Monday.

If you have forgotten, Zaxby’s is located in the Bauer Farm development near Sixth and Wakarusa. Chicken fingers, chicken wings, chicken sandwiches, and an indiscriminate use of the letter ‘z’ are hallmarks of Zaxby’s menu. Chicken fingers are “fingerz,” salads are “zalads” and appetizers are “zappetizers.” The menu also includes about five dipping sauces ranging from marinara to its signature zak sauce. Also available are about 10 wing sauces ranging from mild to “insanely” hot.

• If you are keeping track at home, the Zaxby’s opening may be the end of the chicken rush for awhile. All the other chain restaurants that have announced plans for Lawrence already have opened. Those include: Chick-fil-A, Wing Stop, Popeyes, Raising Cane’s, and Slim Chickens, although Slim Chickens has filed plans for a second Lawrence location. As we have reported, that location would be along south Iowa Street where Barb Wire Steakhouse previously was located.

There is probably at least one more chicken restaurant development to keep an eye on. We reported in early January about plans for Wake the Dead: Chicken Whiskey, Donuts to open at 918 Massachusetts St. in the former location of Burger Fi.

Not long ago, though, the business’ Facebook page announced the location was changing to the spot above the tavern John Brown Underground on East Seventh Street. (Yes, across the street from my office.) Then, more recently, the business posted on Facebook again that it was back at 918 Massachusetts, but its name was changing to Harold’s.

You may remember that Harold’s was a small fried chicken restaurant in the gas station building near Sixth and Kasold in west Lawrence. As we’ve reported, Nick Wysong of Lawrence’s Ingredient restaurant, is one of the leaders of the group opening Wake the Dead. He also was the guy who opened Harold’s. I haven’t talked with Wysong since the name change, but something caused him to drop the Wake the Dead theme.

What hasn’t changed, though, is the restaurant still will serve fried chicken, doughnuts and whiskey. The restaurant’s website has a menu now. It lists about 20 doughnut flavors, including some traditional maple-glazed ones, but also more unusual ones such as an Arnold Palmer, and Oreo explosion, pink champagne pistachio, and something called The Elvis.

Beyond doughnuts, the restaurant lists a handful of fried chicken dinners, chicken wings, a Louisiana catfish plate and about a half dozen dipping sauces, including country gravy. Sides seem to be fairly traditional with potatoes and gravy, mac-n-cheese, coleslaw, a few salad options, french fries and even chicken noodle soup among the options.

Yes, some of you who ate at the old Harold’s may remember the Grilled Glazer sandwich, which was a toasted maple glazed doughnut topped with fried chicken, cheese and a secret sauce. That too is on the menu, and so is hamburger version of that concoction.

Look for the restaurant to open soon, according to the latest info on the company’s Facebook page.

UPDATE: I talked to Wysong Friday afternoon, and he said he plans to begin frying chicken and doughnuts next week. He may even set aside a day to give free doughnuts away late in the week, he said. As for the name change, he said after the Journal-World ran the original article about Wake the Dead, he heard from a lot of people who said they really loved Harolds Fried Chicken. That feedback caused him to reconsider changing the name. It also sounds like the ownership group that had come together to create the Wake the Dead concept is no longer fully intact.