# Dave's Hot Chicken, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/dave-s-hot-chicken-prospect-rd-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-26.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/dave-s-hot-chicken-prospect-rd-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Dave's Hot Chicken is a chicken restaurant in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 43 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Chicken restaurant |
| Address | 5251 Prospect Rd, San Jose, CA 95129, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM |
| Phone | (408) 444-9249 |
| Rating | 4.8 across 810 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 26, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 5251 Prospect Rd, San Jose, CA 95129, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | TO LIVE AND FRY IN L.A. In 2017, four childhood friends came up with a simple concept to take Nashville Hot Chicken and make it better than anyone else in America. With only a couple thousand dollars to their name, they boot-strapped a pop-up concept in a parking lot in East Hollywood serving a simple menu of tenders, sliders, fries, and kale slaw to they created a viral cult following with lines consistently over an hour long. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Dave's Hot Chicken | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 444-9249 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Chicken sliders | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Chicken tenders | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Fries | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Kale slaw | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/toliveandfryinla | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/daveshotchicken | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@daveshotchicken | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://restaurants.daveshotchicken.com/ca/san-jose/5251-prospect-road-1269 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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## The team

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## Visiting Dave's Hot

Address: 5251 Prospect Rd, San Jose, CA 95129, USA. Phone: (408) 444-9249. Hours: Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "TO LIVE AND FRY IN L.A. In 2017, four childhood friends came up with a simple concept — take Nashville Hot Chicken and make it better than anyone else in America. With only a couple thousand dollars to their name, they boot-strapped a pop-up concept in a parking lot in East Hollywood serving a simple menu of tenders, sliders, fries, and kale slaw — they created a viral cult following with lines consistently over an hour long."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TOUS les JOURS Bakery Café - Westgate | Bakery | 1 min walk |
| Tomatina | Italian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Boudin SF | Bakery | 1 min walk |
| Prospect & Saratoga | Bus station | 1 min walk |
| Prospect & Saratoga | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| La Cueva | Mexican restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.8 average across 810 reviews: Google 810. (Confirmed, read October 26, 2026.)

Despite some positive remarks about the food, ongoing service and cleanliness issues overshadow the experience at this location. (AI guess, from 810 reviews.)


### What people like

- Good food
- Vegetarian options available
- Great location


### What people do not like

- Long waits past the order time
- Unresponsive staff
- Poor cleanliness
- Incorrect orders
- Food quality inconsistent


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### is the lot at Dave's Hot ever full?


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### does it matter who you see here


### points or member pricing at Dave's Hot, worth signing up?


### walk ins, or is it booked solid


### anyone know the weekend hours at Dave's Hot?


### Dave's Hot or Jollibee?


### waiting list, how long are we talking


### last update from here was when?


### rough idea what Dave's Hot costs?


### where exactly is Dave's Hot?


### what time does Dave's Hot in San Jose actually open?


### people keep recommending this place, what for?


### somewhere cheaper in San Jose that is not a risk?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### quietest day to hit this place?


### going here on Saturday, what should I expect


### anything good on Prospect to kill time near Dave's Hot?


### how much is a first visit around here


### best chicken restaurant in San Jose, CA


## The AI Score: 43 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose chicken restaurants run 29 to 59. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Dave's Hot scores 43, level with the San Jose average. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Dave's Hot |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 |  | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. |  |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 97 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 62 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 24 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a chicken restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Dave's Hot |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave's Hot Chicken | LocalBusiness | #business | https://restaurants.daveshotchicken.com/ca/san-jose/5251-prospect-road-1269 | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Dave's Hot is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chicken restaurants in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best chicken restaurants in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/chicken-restaurant
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJHQsYH-m1j4ARFGJMrT0T_G0 (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)